(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. 

(02 April 2025) Here it is around midnight so in six to eight hours in the USA the so called 'liberation day' will set in. So with a bunch of tariffs the USA will try to get 'liberated' from international trade. It is interesting to see (for me anyway) if more and more countries just cut their mutual tariffs so they can trade with each other instead of the USA.  

All in all the chaos in the White House on this detail is still a feature and not a bug. Now I don't know the exact numbers but suppose the USA imports for say 3 trillion US$ a year. Now if you slap just a 250% tariff on it, that is 7.5 trillion US$. And you can use that to do some minor tax reforms, yes I can see the logic behind this all.
Well lets wait and see what the tariffs from 02 April will be and tomorrow what the tariffs for 03 April will be. And why don't they open account that the Nasdaq or so where the values of the tariffs will be placed on a continuous manner, just like say stock values or so?

But lets go to the two items of this update:   

Item 1) Russia doesn't want a ceasefire & the UA-USA minerals deal.
Item 2) The magneto caloric effect.

  Item 1) Russia doesn't want a ceasefire & the UA-USA minerals deal.

Since that energy infrastructure ceasefire came in effect, Russia just kept on attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure. I didn't have the time to look it up but someone remarked that Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov has even said that at no point in time Putin has given an order to stop those kind of attacks. But I haven't checked that so it might be just a rumor while in practice we see no difference in behavior. 

On top of that Russia has ordered for a huge expansion of their conscripted soldiers so that does not sound as that the Kremlin expects less military stuff because of less fighting in Ukraine. It is the largest conscription draft in 14 years.

As far as I see it, everything points to the fact that Russia does not want a cease fire or any other form of peace. So basically the Americans are standing for joker, this is just the usual delaying tactics from the Kremlin.  

Newsweek had this to say:
Putin Launches Largest Military Draft in Years Despite Ceasefire Talks 
Link used: https://www.newsweek.com/putin-largest-military-draft-
despite-ceasefire-talks-2053658

Quote: On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would issue secondary tariffs on Russian oil if he believed Moscow was standing in the way of a peace deal.

__________

The minerals deal. Another thing that is hard to follow, the whole thing seems to be changing and changing. There is also weird talk that such a minerals deal should not prevent Ukraine to integrate into the EU. What the fuck!!! 

What are the Americans doing? More of that "You must pay us 500 billion for all the aid we gave you"? Unbelievable, it is that hard to formulate just a normal deal where everybody can agree on? 

Why all that weird stuff, just like with the tariffs why all that chaos?  

Lets go to the next item.  

 Item 2) The magneto caloric effect.

I had seen a demonstration of this effect many years ago but I did not remember it had a name. The magneto caloric effect is the property that some materials when exposed to a magnetic field become a bit warmer without the transfer of any heat. If the magnetic field is withdrawn the material instantly cools down a bit.  

Only a few weeks back I came across this name and it is amazingly old as you can see in the wiki on it. This effect can be used for cooling like in a refrigerator at room temperature but also for very low temperatures like needed for superconductivity or to go below where helium can bring you. For people with the nerdy personality disorder like me, this is all very interesting.

I selected this effect because in it's explanation it is once more: When the magnetic field is applied all magnetic spins align. So just like in the Einstein de Haas effect, 100% of the (unpaired) electrons do the same thing. And that is sharply in contrast with every explanation out there for the Stern-Gerlach experiment where we are told to believe that 50% of the (unpaired) electrons align themselves and the other 50% anti-align themselves.

That is why I so often say these people talk just out of their necks when it comes to electron magnetism. They come always up with explanations that sound logical at first sight or first hearing but those explanations bite each other severely. You cannot have it is all random those alignments and in another effect all electrons spins do the same...

And these explanation problems only arise from the belief in the Gauss law for magnetism and the blatant refusal to say there should be experimental validation of the idea that the electron has a tiny bipolar magnetic field. It is much more logical that electron magnetism is just like it's electric charge: monopole and permanent.  

Below you see a bit how it is supposed to work; a magnetic field is applied and that raises the temperature, after that it is cooled down and then the magnetic field is removed so it ends cooler as it started.

It is a fascinating effect and I too have no good explanation as why this goes this way. Ok ok since in my view a lot of magnetism is monopole in nature, of course the application of a magnetic field gives some shock or boost to all unpaired electrons and also the net magnetic charge of the atomic nuclei. Yes that could raise the heat a little bit but then why does it cool down when the magnetic field is removed? And does it cool down just as much as it did rise in temperature? The picture below is from the wiki you get when you click on it:

Wiki title: Magnetocaloric effect.
Link used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetocaloric_effect

That's it for this update and why not you and me together lets destroy the beast. And the beast has a number on it's forehead and that number is 36 trillion... Or shall we not destroy the beast and instead sing a birthday song to the beast? Or pop open a home brew and start slurping beer? Anyway thanks for your attention.  

(28 March 2025) And that was another crazy week, anyway it's a 'week' if you measure it via the updates here. Now there is tariffs on cars and car parts of 25% and that could make the USA cars about 5000 to 10000$ more expensive. So do you think car companies will shift production to the USA? Well may be a bit or a tiny bit but you can't make long term investment decisions based on the present 'logic' and all that chaos. Beside this all that tariff stuff is only presidential decrees, nothing is based on law that would be a bit more long lasting... Companies can't make such huge investments based on a barrage of chaotic stuff.
Lets go to the two items of today: 

Item 1) The adventures of the F35 and a coalition of the willing in France.
Item 2) A wiki and it's shortcomings on multivariable calculus.

Item 1) The adventures of the F35 and a coalition of the willing in France.

More and more countries are changing their view on the F35 fighter plane because why should you buy such an expensive plane and when you need it the most like in a future conflict with Russia, the USA will say you can't use it because it might make oil prices or whatever crap they come up that time. 

Budgets for defense are up in Europe and of course now we can't trust the USA that much anymore, a important boundary condition now becomes independence of the USA military gear and as such the demands the White House can make. This also goes for things like those HIMARS systems, why not make our own so we can use them if we need them?  

Three news articles about countries reconsidering their stance on the F35: Will Lockheed’s F-35 become a casualty of Donald Trump?
Link used: https://www.ft.com/content/67c53735-e1f7-41aa-b21d-
8fddcf6871f1

Canadian general who recommended F-35 deal now calls for purchase of other jets.
Link used: https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/
canadian-general-f-35-fighter-jet-deal

F-35: After Canada & Portugal, Another Country “Regrets” F-35 Deal As U.S. Reliability & Jet’s Ops Constraints Questioned.
Link used: https://www.eurasiantimes.com/another-country-
regrets-f-35-purchase/ 

There was much more news because indeed it was another crazy week, for example I have no idea what happens in Saudi Arabia and likely all kinds of crazy gifts are given to the Russians. Well we keep our economical sanctions in place of course...

But there was a coalition of the willing in France for the support of Ukraine. Of course it is very difficult now to craft meaningful policy now all is still so chaotic but it's good there is a meeting. We're not all a bunch of fucking traitors I guess. If you click on the picture you get a Reuters report: 

Report title: Europeans back strong Ukraine army, differ on future 'reassurance force'. Link used:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-allies-meet-
with-new-aid-security-assurances-mind-2025-03-27/

With that lets go to the next item that I hope will be as boring as possible... 

 Item 2) A wiki and it's shortcomings on multivariable calculus.

Ok lately I solved the problems there were or I thought there were with so called Fundamental Theorems on spaces with dimension of 3 and higher. So how to integrate and of course differentiate properly without the use of diapers. 

Without diapers? Yes of course, if you constantly need diapers when doing your higher dimensional differentiation or integration you are clearly doing something wrong...;)

But serious I went for one more internet search for may be there were more versions out there of the famous Fundamental theorem of calculus? May be one for more variables? Well yes and no and of course it is all completely not important.

More variables used in integration simply means you repeat the stuff and you eat it variable after variable. And yes you could name that some form of fundamental theorem. But I could not find anything with a bit of math depth.

But what I found was a cute wiki where they try to cram in all stuff related to multi (real) variables. So that makes it a good wiki but like always the problems emerge from the fact that math professors can't multiply vectors. Therefore such theory as in differentiation is always presented as it is on vector spaces where by design you can't multiply vectors.

So they start with a space where you can't (or divide by) vectors and after that conclude that there are problems with finding a derivative... That's just as dumb as starting with the complex plane and try to find some form of 3D complex numbers that includes the 2D complex plane. And after that explain that it's not possible... The problem is they use only vector spaces or so called linear spaces where you can only add vectors or multiply them by real numbers. But for example physics folks consider that kind of stuff a "rich mathematical space", that is what they think of their Hilbert spaces. 

If you click on the picture you will land at the math wiki:  

Wiki title: Multivariable calculus.
Link used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus

I too had problems with this kind of stuff and always avoided it but recently it dawned on me that the fundamental theorem of calculus lives in much more spaces as the real line or the complex plane. I too had the problem that I could not divide by vectors but that was because there were always vectors in my spaces that were not invertible and as such you can't divide by them. 

But recently I found a better definition for differentiation, it is just a rearrangement such that it avoids dividing by evil non-invertible numbers. So that's why I only have in the year 2025 these new fundamental theorems and not say in the year 2015 when I started that other website specialized on 3D complex numbers. Anyway in case you missed it, here is the latest post from the other website:

General Theory Part 4: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.   

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

(26 March 2025) Howard Lutnick news; I heard him say that it might be that countries have to pay a membership fee to the USA in case they want to export to the USA... Well that is highly creative but it can be doubted that it has no side effects like countries just skipping that whole USA stuff because it is crazy anyway.
I also heard him ask in a rhetorical manner "Who is more important, the buyer or the seller?" Of course according to Howard it's the buyer, where did we hear that before? Yes that were the Brexiteers who explained that they bought just so many German cars that the German car industry would put pressure on the German government who in turn would made Europe bend to their wishes... Of course that did never ever happen.
So the present trade war is some Brexit on steroids. Lets wait and see what more madness comes floating above.

Item 1) Before & after Engels air base and a Black Sea ceasefire deal?
Item 2) Rather weird video from Rigetti quantum computers.

  Item 1) Before & after Engels air base and a Black Sea ceasefire deal?

Of course Suchominus was fast with an update on the Engels air base attack that happened last week with that beautiful mushroom cloud that clearly indicated that the Russians surely but slowly are getting better and better at igniting a barbeque.
The attack is interesting because very likely the Russians had a lot of air defense there so that didn't work as supposed to do. Click on the picture to land at the video from Suchominus:

Video title: Satellite Imagery Shows Big Damage to Engels Air Base After Ukrainian Drone Strike.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkyAkXbOA44

In a very different development there are still talks going on in Saudi Arabia and a few hours back it came out there might be a ceasefire in the Black Sea. A lot more came out like some fast lifting of economical sanctions while I ponder the wisdom of that. What's going on here: Trying to get an end to the war or the dividing up of Ukraine under our noses? 

Anyway, the Sun was the first video I saw on the Black Sea possible ceasefire deal. Video title:

BREAKING: Ukraine and Russia agree to Black Sea ceasefire deal after Saudi talks. Link used: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Qm4GlgwHo

Of course there is also a scandal going on about the use of the Signal app for communications. Some journalist from the Atlantic got the war plans for the attacks on Jemen send, all in all this is rather sloppy. So let me end the item with not an extra link but just a beautiful photo of the new USA SecDef... I never ever thought there would come a day when I said "Can't we please have Rumsfeld back, just please...?".

Ok lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Rather weird video from Rigetti quantum computers.

The video is a bit long, about 40 minutes or so, but I found this all very not convincing stuff. Suppose you can make good working qubits with these superconducting resonators, why do these people never explain how to bring stuff in superpositions or for that matter create long distance entangled qubits.  

All they show in the video is a bunch of resonators that are coupled and that's supposed to be a part of a quantum computer? At 4 mins into the video we are shown an LC resonator and a long time ago when I was a teenager these were already important devices. Since there were radio's we have those LC circuits and the energy stored in them is simply the energy in the electric field and magnetic field at any given time and that resonates. It has nothing to do with what you see hf_r because that is the energy of a photon with the same frequency...
Ok ok, there are quantum resonators or oscillators but these are not LC circuits and somehow must that those quantum jumps possible. May be what they later show in the video that is possible, I never studied it in detail so I don't know.

So if you have an empty life you can try to fill it up with this uplifting video from Rigetti quantum computers where, as memory serves, the guy with the name Rigetti is actually gone some time now...  

Video title: Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUnaPaXaAQo

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

(21 March 2025) Lets keep this update short because I feel a bit tired and I already hear my bed complaining where the hell I have been. Or do beds not talk? You see, I'm tired...;) But serious only one item for today so here we go:

Item 1) The White House phonecalls and a 30 non-energy attack ceasefire?

 Item 1) The White House phonecalls and a 30 non-energy attack ceasefire?

US prez Trump has had two lengthy phonecalls with Putin and Zelensky. Lets not comment on stuff like that only look at this stopping attacking energy infrastructure. Well within a few hours a Ukrainian structure was attacked but it could very well be that the Russian chain of command is just not fast enough to stop such things in say a three hours notice. If on the other hand this detail was a proposal from Putin, in that case it would be a bit strange to have an attack that fast... In that case Putin is just playing games. 

Ok I thought that Ukrainians were withdrawing from Russia in general and Kursk in particular but now there was an incursion of the Belgorod region? I have to say that brought a smile to my face but there is not much info out there. Only a Russian command post was attacked and it was said this was done using air power. And that likely means no drones but real air planes with pilots and so. Here you see some military vehicles returning from Kursk: 

From 2 days back:
Situation in Russia's Belgorod region 'difficult', at least one killed, government says. Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/
situation-russias-belgorod-region-difficult-least-one-killed-
government-says-2025-03-19/

And from a few hourse back:
Ukraine 'destroys' Russian command post in Belgorod Oblast, military claims. Link used: https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-destroys-
russias-command-post-in-belgorod-oblast-military-claims/

The Sun as so often had a relative good video out upon the latest interesting thing that went boom. Also in the video it was said a Russian oil facility was attacked, actually it is in the  title of the video, but I don't know if that was before or after the famous two phone calls. 

Anyway the video also had a nice mushroom cloud at the Engels airbase. Click on the picture for the video: 

Video title: Huge Ukrainian drone strike turns Russian oil depot into raging inferno. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQqaVLgePdM

Reuters reported on the same things so if you prefer a read instead of a video here is the Reuters thing: 

Ukraine strikes Russian strategic bomber airfield, triggering huge blast.
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-attacked-
airfield-near-engels-strategic-bomber-base-russian-officials-2025-03-20/

It was only recent that I learned where that strange name Engels comes from. It is from the time of Marx and Engels who at the time using the ideological vehicle from socialism/communism to make Russia great again.  

With all that political turmoil in the USA, for example now they are going to end the department of education, it is harder to follow what happens in Ukraine. After all you don't consume news all day long, that's not good for your mental health... Or not? 

Anyway this is the end of this update so as always thanks for your attention. 

(19 March 2025) I think I found the USA form of Jacob Rees Mogg the former UK minister for Brexit opportunities. It is the US commercial sec Howard Lutnick. I once heard his say that may be the Internal Revenue Service (their tax agency) will be replaced by the External Revenue Service that collects the tariffs... I did NOT hear him explicitly say that it will be the foreign governments paying those tariffs. That was the new White House press person, her name is Leavitt or so.
As a matter of fact it was an insult to her (Leavitt) economical insights to suggest that in fact American importers must pay the tariff... I have to say for me this is all very refreshing.  

Anyway Howard Lutnick has the intelligence of a Large Language Model or an LLM. When asked Howard if those tariffs were not inflationary he answered that with: Do the tariffs contribute to the money supply? No they don't so it won't be inflationary because only to much money supply is inflationary. And again such levels of insight are at least to me very refreshing; how can you get such weirdo's in such positions? 

LLM models have a bit of the same problem: They do not understand any of the words they use but know all of the relations with other words. It can give very good definition of any word using other words while at the same time not understanding any of the individual words.  

Until now the US stock markets are down for the year but it is only a relative mild correction. Hard to say what's going to happen if more and more tariffs are put in place...  

Lets go to the two items of today's update: 

Item 1) Ukraine withdrawing from Kursk & The fast and the Führer.
Item 2) New post on integration is finished and published.

 Item 1) Ukraine withdrawing from Kursk & The fast and the Führer.

From the military point of view this was a very interesting experiment. Beforehand not a lot of people could think that Russia would be that weak against a relative small invasion like we saw in Kursk. For all militaries in Europe it is of course interesting to study a bit how the Russians upscaled over the many months so that knowledge can be used in future stuff.
For myself speaking it was interesting to observe from day 1 if the Russians would also destroy everything inside their own country and yes from the start they did that. So destroy everything is the only form of war they can do... 

The BBC had a bit of an emotional article about it and I thought why not use that for this update. Most of the time I leave the human factor simply out, not out of arrogance but mentioning it constantly does not help at all. Of course I am aware of all kinds of widescale suffering, look for example at the birth rates in Ukraine. They are really very low. And there is so much more stuff like that. For the BBC article click on the picture: 

Article title: 'Everything is finished': Ukrainian troops relive retreat from Kursk. Link used: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q198zyppqo

Anders Puck Nielsen had a short video out where he analyses a bit if the Kursk incursion was a success on a number of topics yes or no. I did not use a screenshot from the video because yesterday I came across the next funny picture that you have to click on if you want to see the video from Anders: 

Video title: Ukraine leaves Kursk — What did they achieve?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPw_HkMgYI0

To top this first item off, today I observed Elon Musk telling a reporter that he had found 13 computers in the treasury and so and they were money printing computers. So they made payments but no money was going in. 

So now you understand whay Musk and Trump are relatively good pals: They have very similar levels of cognitive capabilities or capacities...
Lets leave it with that while we go to the next item 

 Item 2) New post on integration is finished and published.

Finally this math post with general theory is hanging on the other website. It still contains a silly typo in the math text and that is always a bit lumbersome to repair. Like said before I do not like it very much to craft or write general theory because if you pretend to do that you also must know all the ins and outs there are to this math subject.

But this one was an exception while the previous part 3 was about differentiation this one is about integration. I now have four parts of general theory but I never turned it into a separate category on the other website on the 3D complex numbers. 

So this post is about integration in a general setting and that means n-dimensional space over the real numbers. I am relative satisfied with it, of course you can always tweak it further and further but at some point I have to chop it off otherwise I would still be tweaking it six months later...  

Here are links with the four general theory posts in it, just cut and paste them because I am to lazy today to make proper clickable links from them: 

Proof that Z^2 = -1 cannot be solved on real spaces with an odd dimension. (General theory part 1.)
https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2023/06/05/proof-that-z2-1-cannot-be-
solved-on-real-spaces-with-an-odd-dimension-general-theory-part-1/

General theory Part 2: On a matrix named big E.
https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2023/10/13/general-theory-part-2-on-a-
matrix-named-big-e/

General Theory Part 3: Cauchy-Riemann equations.
https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2023/10/28/general-theory-part-3-
cauchy-riemann-equations/

General Theory Part 4: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2025/03/15/general-theory-
part-4-the-fundamental-theorem-of-calculus/ 

Now yesterday I made a search on the video channel youtube with a search phrase of "3D complex numbers". I can't remember it ever done before on this video channel. And yes it returned the usual crap video's from shallow thinking people.  

The first video on this list below came out a few months ago but it was so stupid I did not have any good use for it. It was hard to attack the guy because he based his slow moving thoughts on another video namely the one from Michael Penn.

The second video on the list is from Michael Penn and that is a bit of a pity because I do not consider Michael utterly stupid to the bone. He could do better if he wanted but he also works in a university environment as far as I know so he has to worship the common knowledge known as 'science' in this case scientific insights into 3D complex numbers.

The third video is also trash, the fouth video is an advertisement from youtube so likely it is also non interesting trash...

But if you click on the picture you will land at the last math post that, at least to my own opinion, is not total trash.   

That was it for this update, as always if you made it till here thanks for your attention. 

(14 March 2025) Well well the EU was formed only to rip off the USA while I also observed that White House press female (I forgot her name) clearly insisting that tariffs are paid for by foreign countries. Lets say we live in interesting times and once more: chaos is a feature of the present USA government. Or am I wrong on that?

And I mean, suppose some USA companies order for say 2 billion US$ chip machines at ASML. Well if the tariff is 25% that would be 500 million of our tax payer money. Do they really believe we would cough up 500 million? In what fantasy world do they live in?

Item 1) Putin reacts a bit while Mark visits the White House.
Item 2) Just a picture to pass the time.

 Item 1) Putin reacts a bit while Mark visits the White House.

I didn't have much time today but after a few days of waiting the Kremlin responded a bit. It's hard to say how serious they are in this but the ceasefire proposal was not flatout rejected. For more you have to look at some media files for yourself but here is a link to the only thing I read: 

Article title: Putin wants direct White House talks before Ukraine ceasefire, but says he is open to deal in principle. Link used: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/putin-says-russia-backs-
ukraine-ceasefire-plan-but-there-are-nuances.html

Today (I mean 13 March) NATO secretary Mark Rutte visited Donald Trump but likely it was all coincidental such two news pieces came out simultaneously. I didn't see the entire video but it went a bit better compared to the brawl we all could enjoy lately...

A short article from The Hill: 

Article title: Trump calls EU ‘nasty’ while sitting alongside NATO secretary. Link used:https://thehill.com/homenews/
administration/5193356-trump-calls-eu-nasty/

And a whole lot more did happen but we have to skip all of that I just guess. 

 Item 2) Just a picture to pass the time.

This weekend the new post will be finished and uploaded. Although all in all I don't like writing general theory this time I am more or less satisfied with the result. In the end I got a clean and simple proof that works in all dimensions. So that's great. 

Well if the universe is  indeed 13.8 billion years old, it took the math people 13.8 billion years to cough up the three so called Fundamental Theorems of Calculus. And they more or less don't have three but only two, one for the real line and one for the complex plane. But they have to versions for the real line so that's where the three theorems comes from. 

With the new post I will add an infinite number of these Fundamental theorems to the existing stack of only three. Actually it is two times infinite because each multiplication I use give an infinite number of theorems. But I don't want to brag and say it is two times infinite, one time infinite is enough for me...;) 

Anyway the whole proof is amazingly short and instead of trying to integrate and proof the existence of a primitive, I turned the whole thing on it's head and start with all possible primitives and differentiate them to get the result. That sounds more easy as it is but it is not as hard as trying to prove the existence of primitive functions. 

Here is the whole proof: 

It is weird that some math I found back in the year 1990 (the 3D complex numbers) give still rise to new results and it's now fucking 2025. Well it's time to upload this new update to our shared garbage can: the internet. 

As always thanks for your attention. 

(12 March 2025) I finally rammed the old homepage into the archives because it was so long. Hopefully this page loads a bit faster now and once more I think I should throw stuff in the archives a bit faster and not always let the length of this page run out of hand...

Item 1) Wow a ceasefire? And: Another gas pipe attack...
Item 2) And another fundamental theorem of calculus.

 Item 1) Wow a ceasefire? And: Another gas pipe attack...

I completely missed it so when I did fire up my desktop PC all of a sudden it seems that Ukraine had said yes against a ceasefire deal made by and likely backed by the USA. So I don't know much but regardless of how this all will end  I would like to say thank you to the Americans who did put a lot of work in this I guess.

So this is all very surprising but, as Marco Rubio put it: "The ball is now in the Russian court" so we will wait and see. I did read only two news articles about it, the first is from the BBC and is more one of those timeline things as often used in fast evolving situations. 

Title article: Ukraine says it is ready to accept 30-day ceasefire, as US says 'ball now in Russia's court'. Link used: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c51ypekv9xwt

Yesterday Suchominus had a funny video out about one of those gas pipe attacks lately. This one was intercepted by the Ukrainians and here is one of the photo's likely later retreated from the mobile phones of dead Russian soldiers. As always click on the image for the video if you want to see it: 

Video title: Russians Use Gas Pipe in Sudzha, Kursk to Infiltrate Ukrainian Positions: Detected and Defeated!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIcb4geKi-Q

And from Forbes:

Article title: Ukraine Agrees To 30-Day Ceasefire Proposal—But Russia Hasn’t Accepted Yet. 
Link used: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/
2025/03/11/ukraine-agrees-to-30-day-ceasefire-proposal/  

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) And another fundamental theorem of calculus.

I am more or less ready with a new math post. It is one of those 'General theory' posts and although I started that about 2 years ago, this is only the fourth post in that new series. 

That is also explained by the fact that I just do not like writing general theory that much, you can only do it if you know just about everything from a particular subject that it is almost impossible to do it good.

The general theory is, as you might have guessed, higher dimensional spaces and how to craft those vectors into higher dimensional complex numbers. In the third post I treaded the Cauchy-Riemann equations so that covers all things related to differentiation. 

And since I lately found that fundamental theorem for the 3D complex numbers, that's integration, it was not that hard for me to add one and one and remark that may be a new post on general theory would be appropriate.

If you have had classes in linear algebra it could very well be you have been told that you can't multiply vectors but you can only add them up and multiply by a read constant. So only adding and change the size.
But stating that you can't multiply vectors is totally rubbish, yes linear algebra is defined in such ways that you cannot do it. Only as such it is a feature that in linear algebra you can't multiply finite dimensional vectors. Therefore there is only matrix multiplication and stuff like inner products and Hilbert spaces.
But if you allow for a suitable multiplication, all of a sudden you have all that analytic stuff like you have in the complex plane only now in a space with an arbitrary dimension.  

So if a teacher tells you that it is not possible to multiply vectors, that simple means that this person is not aware of how you do that. And it's so simple to understand, in the picture below you see a 4D complex number that I named Z. And it has a real part and three imaginary parts and the first imaginary unit is l. All there is to the 4D complex numbers is that the fourth power of l is minus one: l^4 = -1. 

The basic idea is relatively simple yet if you calculate just the square of such a 4D complex number you already get 16 terms. So beside 'complex' it becomes complicated and highly technical fast. And it has now the benefit that you can integrate and differentiate just like on the complex plane or the ordinary real line. 

This 4D example if from an appendix where I do this explicit example, the post in itself is much more abstract because it covers a whole lot of spaces and just not one concrete example. That's also a feature of crafting general theory but I like it much more most of the time to dive into just one of such examples and look at that for some time.  

The post isn't finished in the sense I still have to finish the last details of the images and upload the stuff but all in all the basics are all done by now. 

May be you have heard of the quaternions, these are some form of 4D complex numbers as found a long long time ago by Hamilton. But I have never seen in any text of them what a square is, you only see how multiplication works if you use two different quaternions. Why is that? 

Well the square is so crazy that you instantly understand this is totally useless for trying to make differentiation work or integration. So that's always skipped: There are no math texts on quaternion derivatives or integrals because it's just a bag of nonsense.

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

(07 March 2025) That stupid trade war that will never produce any result for the USA is more or less on. Weirdly Mexico was excluded until 02 April and you wonder why is this all so chaotic? Somewhere last week Fox news had a very plausible explanation: Donald Trump is playing 4D chess.
That could indeed been an explanation of why this all is so chaotic... 

And it will have all those hard to foresee consequences. For example chocolate brand Triumpf also has production facilities in the USA and as such the exports to Canada are now tariff. So they close in the USA what is needed and scale up production in the EU. (It's a German company.)

Weirdly enough there is also a chocolate brand named Trumpf? Well I wonder how long that will last...  

The items for this update: 

Item 1) Even the military intel to Ukraine is cut by Trump.
Item 2) Scimandan has a chemtrail vaporizer! Great video.

 Item 1) Even the military intel to Ukraine is cut by Trump.

So weapon deliveries halted, even those already in transit. Weird voting behavior of the United Nations and yesterday it emerged that intel sharing for military purposes is also capped likely by Trump himself. You can talk long and short on this but I am starting to think that the White House really wants Ukraine to lose this conflict with Russia.

And you constantly get those silly motivations like "The president wants the killing to stop". Pardon me, since when does he care about how many people die in Ukraine? You see the same pattern in that drug fentanyl or so, Canada and Mexico must do more to secure the border. But for me it is hard to image if yearly 50 thousand or 500 thousand Americans die from this relatively new drugs. Why should he care, drug users are losers anyway...  

Two news article on the withdrawal of military intel: 

Is Trump’s Ban on Intelligence Sharing Blindfolding Ukraine? Maybe Not
Link used: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/48406 

France to continue sharing military intelligence with Ukraine after US freeze. Link used:
https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/06/france-to-continue-
sharing-military-intelligence-with-ukraine-after-us-freeze

An annoying side effect of this all that it becomes clear the very very likely the nuclear umbrella normally guaranteed by the USA is no longer a given. It might very well be it's already broken... Luckily inside NATO and/or EU there are more nuclear powers but of course they have more limited nuclear arsenals.  

Lets leave it with that and lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Scimandan has a chemtrail vaporizer! Great video.

Scimandan, likely his name is Dan, makes video's for years about flat earthers and similar stuff. And he tries to explain where those idea's like a flat earth go wrong. That is a task as noble as it is impossible. I don't think that hard core flat earthers will change their view because of such video's. But it might keep the youth a bit on the right track so they don't believe in what clearly is pseudo science like flat earth theories or think the calculations done in the making of a horoscope are math... 

This time Dan has found a chemtrail believer, that is a sub spieces of the human species that believe that governments spray on a large scale chemicals from planes. So the trail as made by planes are not condensing water from the fuel burned but large scale dumping of poisonous chemicals.  

And the chemtrail believer talks to a younger guy that has made a thing and that can vaporize the chemical in the chemtrails. It is amazing science, that's for sure. Have fun with the video: 

Video title: The Funniest Invention You've Ever Seen.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-Qk0y1JPw

That was it for this week. I am not a Cristian or so but lets say a little prayer for Ukraine this week. Thanks for your attention. 

(05 March 2025) Ok upscaling of all those trade tariffs has begun so we are now in a trade war that is so stupid that Brexit was a brilliant idea compared to this nonsense. Well it is what it is, the two items for today: 

Item 1) How large is the Russian defense budget anyway?
Item 2) New magnetics post and more on Microsoft quantum chip.

  Item 1) How large is the Russian defense budget anyway?

I want to skip making any comment on the developments over the weekend after the White House brawl. But it is worrisome if say no more Patriot air defense rockets do not arrive any longer because that is needed for Russian ballistic missiles.  

Anders Puck Nielsen had a video with a few interesting side remarks about how large the Russian budget is compared to the combined EU budget. Now there are all kinds of problems if you compare budgets in different nations. Take for example Russia: The standard of living is much lower so a buck goes a long way over there. All things equal, one billion dollar spend on military stuff in Russia should go further as one billion in the USA. 

On the other hand, take Russia again, it is well known that the Russian military is terribly corrupt to the extreme that entire parts of their military budget seems to disappear and nobody knows where it's gone. So that makes a dollar go less far compared to say a low corruption country. 

The video is about some FT article where one side was corrected using some purchasing power adjustments while the others were not. Well yes that's a bit sloppy for the FT, there is no denying that. 

Video title: How does Russia's military spending compare to Europe?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxq-TvgNCBU

I hope this update was not so weird emotional as all the other stuff that is going on. Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) New magnetics post and more on Microsoft quantum chip.

The Action lab had a video out on the Einstein de Haas effect that is often used as validation that electrons have angular momentum. An interesting observation is that after the application of the vertical magnetic field all 100% of the electrons align their spin with this applied field. 

In the Stern Gerlach experiment we have a very similar thing in the sense there is also usage of a vertical magnetic field. But for the outcome of the SG experiment it is needed that 50% of the electrons align with their 'spin up' and the other 50% do the anti-align thing with a 'spin down'. 

There is a huge discrepancy here: 100% of electrons doing the same thing versus that 50/50 split and it all depends on probability. That's one of the reasons that years ago I arrived at the conclusion that physics professors are amazingly good in talking out of their necks. The one hour when they for example lecture on the Einstein de Haas effect it is 100%. And the next hour in another lecture on the Stern Gerlach experiment it is the fundamental probabilistic nature of quantum states that explains the SG thing. 

You can look it up for yourself and compare the explanations for both experiments. Here is a picture of how the Einstein de Haas effect is supposed to work, as you see all electron spins are doing the same: 

Now I wrote a very short post on this because I had never mentioned this Einstein de Haas effect over on the other website. I had placed two links and to my surprise none of them works, even the video link to youtube does not work properly. (But if you right-click on the link you can of course open the video, I have no clue why it does not work.) 

Te be honest, I think it is impossible that electrons have bipolar magnetic fields and that it's just like their electric charge: permanent and monopole. But I have no clue that if indeed electrons are magnetic monopoles, what explains the behavior in the Einstein de Haas effect experiments as you can also see in the video. 

Video title: Do Electrons Really Have "Intrinsic" Angular Momentum?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ5w4_0S2l4 

__________

Last week we looked at an advertisement video from Microsoft where they unveiled their holy topological quantum chip. Well I was a bit skeptical of the whole thing and made my points clear.  

Later Sabine came out with a video on the same subject and she was much more positive and even showed a few scientific looking graphs of wiggled lines that went up and down. To my surprise Sabine came out with another video and now she is a bit more critical.

Somewhere I observed that Microsoft has said they had their Majorana particle stuff looked upon by 100 specialists... My estimation it will all never ever work just one microsecond and Microsoft likely has wasted billions of dollars and decades of time, that's what you get if you don't use your own brain and be a tiny bit more critical on that quantum stuff coming from university people as for example the two very different explanations in the SG experiment versus the Einstein de Haas effect...

Video title: Microsoft’s Topological Qubits Probably Don’t Exist, Researchers Warn. Link used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE    

And finally the link to my latest post from a few days back: 

Comparison: Einstein de Haas effect versus the Stern Gerlach experiment. 

That's it for this update.  

(28 Feb 2025) Two items for this update:

Item 1) EU defense spending, minerals deal & Russian glide bombs.
Item 2) Michael Penn strikes again: Now a 4D cross product does not exist.

 Item 1) EU defense spending, minerals deal & Russian glide bombs.

In a long but very good advertisement video from van Eck ETF' I came across a good historical oversight on EU and prior EEC defense spending. I myself was a soldier in the 1980-ties so that was just before defense spending began to nosedive. 

Now today and yesterday there was all kinds of talk we should higher the defense EU budgets to 3.5% of GDP. May be that's a bit of an overkill because as you can see it has never been over 3% historically (if you view the chart as the entire history of the EU...). Beside that we must compare it to what the only serious enemy, Russia, does. It sounds very impressive: Russia spends such and such percent on war stuff. Yes but the actual size of the Russian economy is not that huge especially if you compare it on a per capita basis. That all does not take away we, the EU, have to less simple military hardware right now. We have underinvested far too long, that was not an evil policy but people hoped for better times. 

Video title: VanEck - Changing Tides. Investing in the Defence Industry
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYX8Sa4QGDg

Next thing: That minerals deal. Paul Warburg has read the full text, I didn't have the time for that but I read some fragments. Paul remarks that it is not a specific minerals deal at all but much broader. I copied the link Paul gave, it is from Kyiv Independent. But first his video: 

Video title: Trump’s Ukraine 'Minerals' Deal Could Be the Most Corrupt Thing I've Ever Seen. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X2GW_JvPMk

The link to Kyiv Independent:
Exclusive: The full text of the US-Ukraine mineral deal
Link used: https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-the-full-text-
of-the-final-us-ukraine-mineral-agreement/

It all now sound much less crazy compared to last week. And if the Ukrainians want it, why not this deal or this memorandum of understanding? Or will this fast enter Crazyland and never be heard of?

The last but not the least thing is that finally Ukraine has more or less found a way to disrupt the flypath of those Russian glide bombs. These glide bombs use the Russian version of the GPS that is common over here. And that can be blocked or hindered. May be if you have a good directional antenna, you can let one such glide bomb return to sender... That would be real funny. In all seriousness, those glide bombs did a lot of damage...

Professor Gerdes has more on this:   

Video title: Ukrainians Can Now DEFEAT Russian GLIDE BOMBS
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iihz5rBg7_I

That was it for the first item. 

Item 2) Michael Penn strikes again: Now a 4D cross product does not exist.

Some time ago Michael came out with one of those video's where it is claimed that 3D complex numbers do not exist. In such video's it is always that the 3D numbers must have property this and property that and such and so. After that and some often complicated reasoning, it is found it's not possible and conclude that 3D complex numbers do not exist. 

One of the assumptions is always that the 3D complex numbers must be an extension of the complex plane. So somehow the complex plane must be in that 3D structure. And yes, everybody can agree this is not possible.  

In this video of today a similar thing happens, this time a 4D cross product is not possible. But they keep on hanging to the idea that a product must have two arguments like in 2x5. And yes I can agree to that but I also think it is a stupid way of looking at what is going on with the 3D cross product.  

In 3D space if you have two independent vectors, there is basically one direction perpendicular to both vectors. That is what the 3D cross product does: It eats two vectors and spits out a perpendicular one.

But in 4D space if you have a line or a vector, there is a 3D space perpendicular to that line or vector. So you must not make a 'product' with only two things but you need three independent vectors and find one that is perpendicular to all three of them.  

Well that is what I did in June 2022, anyway I posted it in that month.  

But first the video, I will look into that weird 7D detail in the future. What kind of weird assumptions you must make to craft a product on 7D space that uses only two arguments? Well click on the picture for the video and an link to my own old post is there under. 

Video title: why there is no four dimensional cross product.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPoo7rm0OGI

In the picture above you see 3 vectors a, b and c. Together they form a 4x3 matrix and this 4x3 matrix has four minors in it with each matrix size 3x3.  

So the M₀ matrix has the upper row left out and so on until the M₃ matrix is the minor you get if you leave the last row out. Then you must calculate the four determinants and this is where most of the work is done and most of the faults will be made. But these four determinants together with the +/- alternating pattern gives now something that is perpendicular to any independent triple of vectors a, b and c in 4D space.

All in all this 4D methods that mimics the 3D cross product was just a tiny tiny fraction of the stuff I did back in 2022 with that advanced version of the theorem of Pythagoras for non square matrices. So that was the background and I thought this 4D thing was a cute introduction to that.

So I agree with the video that if you only use two input vectors, it does not work properly. So that's a stupid way of approaching math research I just guess. And with that the time has come to say goodbye and thanks for your attention   

(26 Feb 2025) Last week I heard a strange statistic: If you look at the stock values of the top 74 European banks and how they did grow over the last two years or so, that is more as the magnificent seven from the USA...
Likely there is all kinds of cherry picking data in this statistic, wasn't it the Silicon Valley Bank at the time? I don't remember it but say ING was at 10€ per share. But lets go to the two items of today:

Item 1) A UA USA framework deal on minerals? More fun on the Elon.
Item 2) Two video's from the TU Delft on Majorana qubits.

 Item 1) A UA USA framework deal on minerals? More fun on the Elon.

This evening I looked for some news about Ukraine rejecting that ridiculous deal that was offered to them. To my surprise it was fresh news that a deal was forming, by far not finalized but just a framework deal. And with much less of the crazy stuff in it. So we now live in an age of mineral deposit diplomacy, moah yeah why not?

Anyway this is what the FT reported:

Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US, link used:
https://www.ft.com/content/1890d104-1395-4393-a71d-d299aed448e6 

And Russia offered Western companies the fantastic opportunity to work together with Russia on the rare earth minerals both in Russia as in Ukraine. I don't know if there is much enthusiasm among mining companies. As we all observed three years ago if you invest in Russia you can loose everything fast and there is not much of a justice system to protect you. An article in the BBC: 

Putin offers Russian and Ukrainian rare minerals to US
Link used: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdx7488g5o 

The second half of this item 1) is more of a light tone, a bit more on the weirdo's doing the nazi salute. In my language we name that the Hitlergroet. I don't know if making that gesture is illegal in my country but in Germany it is.
Once there was a story of a German guy who had learned his dog to do this nazi salute and he got a fine. Anyway the good old Steve Bannon is doing his best to adjust to the times while the Elon is also right on track. 

I did not save the link but there was a werid video out from the Elon at the CPAC. He also touted a chain saw to emphasize the importance of DOGE cutting all that corrupted government spending.  

I have no idea what the origin of the next picture is, it wasn't me but it is funny nevertheless. From 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds... 

Tesla sales seem to be imploding in Europe. In my country there are people having a bumper sticker saying "I bought this before Elon went crazy". In some countries sales imploded by 45% so people just don't want to be associated with that car brand at all.  

Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Two video's from the TU Delft on Majorana qubits.

In the last video we looked at video's about the latest so called quantum chip from Microsoft: The Majorana 1. Now in the past I had looked into that kind of stuff but that was years and years ago and since it's likely a bag of garbage I forgot all about it.

Now Majorana fermions are some kind of math dream that weirdly enough gets serious attention inside physics. It describes a particle that is it's own anti-particle. Well that is very weird, for example electric charges are always opposite on a particle and it's anti-particle. Think of electrons and positrons, electrons are negative and positrons positive.
But if a particle is it's own anti-particle, the electric charge must be zero because only 0 = -0. I myself think electrons have a (monopole) magnetic charge just like their electric charge and as such also the magnetic charges must be opposite in the creation of an electron positron pair. 

So it's a very weird idea, such a Majorana particle can have no interesting features at all because it's anti particle must have some opposite thing. In nature they are never observed, that is likely for a reason.

Now at TU Delft or at Microsoft they don't claim to have created or discovered real Majorana particles but you can get some complicated story if you want that. I have no idea of how this all is supposed to work, all that nonsense of an electron or an electron pair combined with a hole does not ring any bell in my brain. How is that crap going to work at all?

A couple of years back the TU Delft had to withdraw an article from Nature where it was claimed they found (traces of) the Majorana fermion. And I thought that was the end of all this weird Majorana stuff but Microsoft did not understand the significance at all from this withdrawing. It's very likely all complicated garbage.

So all in all despite all those advertisement video's with music that sounds like a beautiful world just around the corner, I myself am highly skeptical. And if my views on electron spin are correct, what use is there to try and make Majorana 'matter' via the collection of a few electrons and one hole? If the Microsoft engineers don't know there are two kinds of electrons, how can a device like the new quantum chip work properly?  

Video title: Majorana fermions and where to find them | QuTech Academy.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_otDRv7IN28

The only reason they look in superconductors is that they know electrons form pairs in there. Of course if electrons are magnetic monopoles this kind of behavior becomes much more logical compared to that 'opposite spin' stuff from the Pauli exclusion principle. In my view on electron spin at least opposite magnetic charges attract without the weird stuff from the Pauli principle.  

Anyway the second video is also from the TU Delft and made and presented by Michael Wimmer: 

Video title: Majorana bound states in superconductors | QuTech Academy
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ELVE1Rr7tE

So that was a bit more on possible ways that at Microsoft they do the Majorana bound state stuff. I do not consider it very convincing. That was it for this update and thanks for your attention while I must not forget to put a lot of stuff in the archive because this homepage is once more ridiculous long... 

(21 Feb 2025) If the local weather expectation comes out, tomorrow it will be 13 degrees Celcius or more warmer. That is an amazing amount so we have to say goodbye to the winter. Luckily we had one rather cold week that reminded me of the past. But lets not drown into nostalgia and go on to the next two items of this update:  

Item 1) Oh, now Ukraine started the war? + Funny Chinese vid on the Elon.
Item 2) Microsoft had the Majorana 1 eight qubit quantum chip out. 

 Item 1) Oh, now Ukraine started the war? + Funny Chinese vid on the Elon.

Oh oh Trump came out with Zelensky was a dictator, had an approval rate of only 4% among the UA population and on top of that Ukraine started the war. A local observer pointed out that it could very well be that Putin and Trump had another phone call and that is the source of all this weird stuff suddenly. That could very well be, or that Putin had offered Trump a deal far better as what Ukraine can offer. It's all unknown but this US government is rather erratic and so horrible chaotic, is it so hard to do things in a more normal way? I guess not. For those who missed it: 

Trump says Ukraine started the war that’s killing its citizens. What are the facts? Link used: https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-trump-
war-zelenskyy-putin-7fe8c0c80b4e93e3bc079c621a44e8bb 

Anyway the US envoy Keith Kellog visited Kyiv and although not much information came out, talks were constructive to the UA side. So it is not impossible my dear USA to have some kind of constructive talk going on instead of all that weird chaotic stuff. I didn't save a link but here the two guys are not at the point of smashing all furniture in the room...;) 

By coincidence I came across a funny video on Elon Musk. I don't follow the news much on him but weirdly enough the news seems to follow me everywhere. If you ask me if I consider Elon a smart or a stupid guy I would say that stupid is may be not the correct word. But it is a fact he jumps to conclusions just much much to fast and yes that makes him look rather stupid. Not what you'd expect from a billionaire...
For example that 150 year old person receiving government money was just a totally bogus accusation, the explanation was 100 percent plausible because it was related to how old software like Cobalt (or Cobolt, old stuff from the sixties or so) actually work. If some information is missing, that pops up as the year 1875, but that does not prove an 150 year old is receiving payments.

And so it goes all the time, so I would not say stupid but more to too much drugs and stress and not take the time to think stuff through. The short video is already two months old so at that time all that chaos around all the firings of civil employees was unknown. The video is so caricature with Chinese stuff that it actually is funny to see. 

Video title: Episode 2 of China's Take on Elon Musk's DOGE! DOGE Storm. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJHynyU14IM

A lot more did happen of course but it's late already so lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Microsoft had the Majorana 1 eight qubit quantum chip out. 

Microsoft had a video out praising the might of quantum computers. And they have seemed to make the first chip with 8 topological qubits. Now I think it will fail just like all quantum computers based on electron spin because the casual idea's of electron spin are not based in experiment at all. But here with the Microsoft approach it is a bit harder to point to some possible bottle necks. They made some kind of nano tubes that have some kind of gate at each end and they can read out if there is an even number of electrons in the nano tube or an odd number. 

And that even/odd number forms a qubit: If the number is even that is a say a state of 0 for the qubit and with an odd number of electrons that is the 1 state of the qubit. 

So how can this possibly go wrong?

Well beside entanglement, it has to be that qubits can always be in some kind of super position of the 0 and 1 state. In this case that means the qubit is in a superposition of an odd and an even number of electrons.

So if you measure such a topological qubit, via pure randomness the superposition will collapse into one of two states with a different number of electrons.

I think this is not possible because for example it violates conservation of energy and mass laws that are known to be rather fundamental: You can't remove an electron from the universe or better: you can't add or remove energy from the universe.

But there is also a lot of stuff I don't know about the approach from Microsoft, for example they do the readout of the number of electrons with so called quantum dots and how does this actually work? It could be they have a very good way of measuring magnetism and they think that if magnetism is zero that are an even number of electrons because they pair up in so called Cooper pairs under super conducting conditions. And when they measure some magnetism they think it is an odd number of electrons. 

And if my ideas about electrons having a permanent monopole magnetic charge, that odd/even stuff is all not true. For example you can have two north pole electrons and that's not a pair and you will measure a non zero amount of magnetism. So you measure a 1 while in fact the qubit is 0.

So that's my take on it all; likely the Microsoft approach will not work and also likely they will not change their ways of doing their thing. Microsoft too has no fucking experimental evidence that indeed electrons are bipolar magnets and if you refuse to check that relative important detail, it will not work in a million years. That's my take on it while I have left out that it is claimed they have so called Majorana's. And those particles are their own anti-particle, why should such a thing exist in nature? 

All video's out there from today were far to shallow sometimes even made with ai characters so I decided to first post a video from the channel "Domain of Science" because that guy at least tries to explain what's all going on:

Video title: Microsoft's Topological Quantum Computer Explained
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihZXl33t8So

The next video is much much more an advertisement thing and is from Microsoft itself. So the title might say that Majoran 1 is explained but it is all horrible shallow. I would not recommend this video but all other ones were relative crap to.  

Video title: Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHmygPQukQ

In the Microsoft video it is just not explained how you get the individual qubits into a super position state nor do they mention how to entangle two different qubits with each other. Both are needed to make at least in principle a quantum computer work, but it's not mentioned at all in the Microsoft advertisement video. 

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

(19 Feb 2025) The two items for this update:

Item 1) No rare earth for the USA? And more UA related stuff.
Item 2) But is the fraud a structural thing? Funny Sabine video.

 Item 1) No rare earth for the USA? And more UA related stuff.

Again a crazy lot of news came around but likely that is a feature of the new US government: sow as much chaos as possible. Anyway I totally missed it last week but the US Treasury Sec Scott Bessent visited Kyiv. And he had some kind of funny contract with him, the USA would like to have ownership of 50% of the minerals in the ground in Ukraine.
Well Zelensky politely refused because the 'contract' didn't contain any serious security measures for the future of Ukraine. Of course he was right, if there will be an agreement between America and Russia, it will not be worth the paper it is written on. Both Putin and Trump will violate all there is in such a treaty or agreement if they think it benefits them... 

I found a short piece on the morning brew about the mineral stuff in UA:
Title: The US wants access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth. 
Link used: https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/2025/02/16/
the-us-wants-access-to-ukraine-s-mineral-wealth

Quote from the above: As negotiations ramped up in Europe last week over a potential deal to end the war in Ukraine, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent handed an explosive document to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It requested that Ukraine give the US about 50% of the ownership rights to its deposits of precious minerals, which are key ingredients in the manufacturing of high-tech products. 

Comment: If you sign any kind of contract with the Donald you must always take into consideration that such contracts are more or less designed to fuck you in the ass...

In a bit old fashioned news, there was another Russian oil installation hit by a Ukrainian drone attack. Better keep this kind of stuff up for the time being, the more Russian oil refinery and storage is out the better it is.
Title: Ukraine drone attack sets fire to Russian oil refinery, Russian media reports. Link used: https://tvpworld.com/85092466/ukraine-drone-
attack-sets-fire-to-russian-oil-refinery-russian-media-reports

The big news of the day is there could come a 700 billion € big EU fund for expanding our defense forces. That is about two decades late but of course this is welcome news, in fact it is very good news for our long term future. The bad news is there is nowhere lying 700 billion on a shelf just collecting dust, it is borrowed money.  

Here is a picture of the meeting of some EU nations in France on invitation of Macron. I don't remember where I got it from so let me place two links separately below the image: 

From Reuters:
Title: EU joint defence debt has many hoops to go through
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/eu-joint-defence-
debt-has-many-hoops-go-through-2025-02-18/

From Pravda: 
Title: EU discusses €700 billion plan for defence spending and Ukraine support Link used: https://www.pravda.com.ua/
eng/news/2025/02/18/7498928/

My view is that debt is a necessary evil but governments can take up debt in case all consuming of such debt is avoided. But it is for a long term investment in military stuff that we don't have and that we need. So I absolutely have no problem with it despite a few times every year that I start shouting prudent things related to the taking on of debt. 

I see it as some kind of military infrastructure that we just don't have. Also we need much more independence from the USA weapon industry. So I think it is a good idea although it is a very huge sum of money: 700 bn €... 

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) But is the fraud a structural thing? Funny Sabine video.

Sabine Hossenfelder had a video out that was both funny and kinda weird. She got an email about six years ago and in it were some strange revelations. You better see the video for yourself, anyway it all sounds a bit fraudulent and how widespread is pure outright fraud in physics?

I think it is not very widespread, most people just try to do their best and confirm to what is expected of them. For myself speaking with my idea's about electron spin I do not have a problem with fraud. It is just they are fucking stupid if on the one hand you claim electrons are magnetic dipoles while on the other hand there is no experimental evidence for that at all. 

It is much more a stupidity problem that I am dealing with year in year out and I don't think any kind of fraud has anything to do with it. Also group think plays an important role; even if you are an experimentalist you likely won't get one penny of funding if you want to de experiments that validate or disvalidate the dipole magnetic properties of the electron.
It is much more stupidity rules and not fraud. Well here is the video from Sabine:  

Video title: I was asked to keep this confidential.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg

A few days later the Unzicker guy can't resist the temptation and he comments on the video from Sabine. Now Alexander Unzicker is a charming guy and he always attacks the entire standard model of particle physics. I only concentrate on electron spin for about 10 years now and as far as I know I have made 0% progress. Alexander always attacks the entire standard model and as far as I know he has also made 0% progress.

So the university people are highly successful in doing their stuff. There might be some little problems here and there like working for over 25 years on making qbits based on electron spin but after more as a quarter of a century they have nothing to show for. But people don't care very much, on the contrary they keep it tax payer funded because they think it is science. Also journalists are never critical but mostly play the role of the dumb outsider asking the smart professor explanations. And accept whatever the answer is without being critical.

Here is the video from Unzicker:   

Video title: Hossenfelder's Bombshell: Fraud in High Energy Physics
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTmnOx7RrA

It has to be remarked that, as far as I know, both Sabine and Alexander both believe in the dipole nature of electron magnetism. So I am still on my own, but I don't care that much. If physics professors want to believe in crap about electron magnetism, why is that not allowed? After all we live in a free world or not?

End of this update, I just poured in a home brew so let me slurp that into my stomach and thank you for your attention and think a bit about a number known as 700 billion...

(14 Feb 2025) Two items for this update:

Item 1) Bolton on Trump & some satellite imagery from Suchominus.
Item 2) An extremely worthless video on galactic magnetic fields. 

 Item 1) Bolton on Trump & some satellite imagery from Suchominus.

Outside it is now about minus 4 or 5 degrees so it's one of the coldest nights of this winter. And inside I feel more or less the same: below zero.

How do you negotiate? Well apparently you start with giving it all away... I have no words for all this crap so lets go to the video:  

Video title: Bolton: ‘Trump has effectively surrendered to Putin.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ1NfTlg3Yk

Well lets not get emotional about the thing, after all some form of disaster was to be expected of course. But these two guys holding a 'peace conference' where they divide Ukraine is not a very good idea I just think. 

Lets wait and see how stuff evolves.

I also saved a link to a normal video, this is another one of Suchominus and it is about 10 min long with mostly satellite imagery of Russian oil  installations damaged by attacks.   

Video title: Satellite Imagery of Damage to Russian Infrastructure After Ukraine's Many Drone Strikes.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmNS85atTrk

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) An extremely worthless video on galactic magnetic fields. 

Actually I was trying to find an interesting video on such large magnetic fields but I stumbled upon the one below that was so bad that I thought why not?

Likely this is one of those ai video's and may be I am wrong but it has the voice of David Attenburough in it. Or may be a slight variant of the voice of David. The video goes on and on with nonsense like:  

And we marvel at the intricate patterns woven by the moving plasma that is doing it's beautiful galactic dance. And blah blah blah.

The video channel calls itself Universe Buddy so I clicked on that to see what more there was. And yes one or two new video's everyday so that is just some person scraping together some text from the internet and puts that on the ai voice. 

Video title: The Milky Way's Magnetic Fields: Guardians of Galactic Order. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPwco03uMhg

I have nothing more to say so lets try to get this uploaded. Thanks for the visit and see you around. 

(12 Feb 2025) I don't have any comment on all that trade war stuff that likely will go off in the short future. The two items for today are:

Item 1) From Donkeys on the front to the Münich security conference.
Item 2) It's posted: The fundamental theorem for calculus for 3D numbers.

 Item 1) From Donkeys on the front to the Münich security conference.

Lets start with a weird detail: the Russian army uses donkeys to transport ammunition and stuff? It seems to be true. When in WWII the Germans did the same the allied military commanders concluded there was a severe shortage of fuel for motored vehicles. Here some Russian milbloggers blame the usage of donkeys on that lack of moter vehicles at all.
May be (hopefully) here it is a case of both: fuel and vehicle shortage.   

The Kremin said it was all 'pretty normal' or 'natural', I don't remember the precise phrasing, so that is an interesting statement from the Kremlin.
The Independent had an article on it: 

Title: Russia forced to use donkeys to bring ammunition to 
Putin’s troops in Ukraine as military vehicles run short.
Link used: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/
donkeys-russia-army-ukraine-ammo-b2695926.html

In a very different development, the Baltic states severed the electricity cables with Russia and have now switched to the EU electricity grid. So welcome! And yes it is better this way, Russia will always weaponize every thing there is regardless of contractual obligation. So for the rest of this century and likely longer, no more Russian electricity...

Article title: Baltic Nations Switch Off Russian Power Grid. Link used:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/08/baltic-nations-
switch-off-russian-power-grid-a87916

I missed it completely about one month ago but that story from Craig Kennedy (from Harvard or so) has a lot of meat on it. Likely there are lots of emergency loans done to the Russian defense industry. So it might very well be true that the entire Russian banking sector is saturated with non performing loans. Of course since corruption is a way of life over there in Russia, a lot of that loan money has miraculously disappeared...
On the 12-th of Jan the FT reported on this important detail. If it all is true we are likely looking at another Putin thing where he thinks he is very smart and the rest of the world is utterly stupid...

Article title: Russia’s war economy is a house of cards
Link used: https://www.ft.com/content/
61adaed4-ac9a-4891-afb6-b3ad648c58ad

As a fourth sub-item lets take a look at the impending Münich security conference that will go on at the end of the week. There is an awful lot at stake and as far as I understand it the USA will send a heavy delegation that also included the Treasury Sec Scott Bessent. So that's a bit strange but may be it has something to do with that strange rare earth deal, who knows. Also the USA vice prez JD Vance will attend.

I never looked in detail that the Ukrainian unused commodities like the rare earth metals, but likely there is much of that stuff in regions where there is an illegal invasion going on. It would be strange that in the future the Russians can unearth that stuff and use it for themselves...
Fox news had an article on the Münich conference: 

Article title: JD Vance, Treasury Sec Scott Bessent to meet with Zelenskyy as Trump team sets sights on Russia-Ukraine war.
Link used: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jd-vance-treasury-sec-
scott-bessent-meet-zelenskyy-trump-team-sets-sights-russia-ukraine-war

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) It's posted: The fundamental theorem for calculus for 3D numbers.

It's finally posted so that is the fourth fundamental theorem that humanity now has. It's kind a bad that it took hundreds of thousands of years to make the first three fundamental theorems but it is what it is. Don't forget the math professionals only have three theorems (two for the real line and one for the complex plane) because they don't know of any other spaces where you can do integration with the usage of a primitive.  

So the math professors still want the impossible: They only want 3D complex numbers if they are an extension of the complex plane. But that is a stupid wish to start with and as such they are empty handed.  

But lets not complain about math professors. The new post is rather long, 9 pictures and 3 extra figures and also a video. I think it helps a lot if you already understand integration in the complex plane. Sometimes that is referred to as complex integration. Anyway it is very similar on the space of 3D complex numbers. In the picture below there is already a calculation that clearly says that on the space of 3D numbers finding a primitive is sometimes a sport in itself. I like it, but who am I? 

So if you are interested in taking a look or go in for a deep and long study until you are exhausted as hell, click on the picture to land at the other website: 

New post title: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for the 3D Complex Numbers. Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2025/02/09/the-
fundamental-theorem-of-calculus-for-the-3d-complex-numbers/

Ok last weekend I posted it and weirdly enough within a day when I was watching a few youtube video's there was a recommende video from Hannay Fry. And guess what, it was about the fundamental theorem of calculus.

The video is a bit too simple for the other website. Suppose a person has figured out how the theorem works for the 3D complex numbers, after that looking at Hannah solving how you take the limit of a Riemann sum is not much of a cognitive challenge anymore.  

But for this website it is a perfect video. If you have never seen or done a Riemann sum for yourself, it is one of the basic things you need if you want to know more and more math. So click on the cube I made from Hannah her face if you want to see the video she made:

Video title: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus Explained | Outlier.org
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_3mbfchlQE

For myself speaking I had a good weekend with the publication of this new post on the fourth Fundamental Theorem of Calculus as known to humanity. At the same time I acknowledge that all math professionals will avoid talking about it. Well it is what it is. Lets leave it with that and as always thanks for your attention.   

(07 Feb 2025) In Greece around an island named Santorini there is an amazing amount of earth quakes going on. News says it is not related to possible volcanic activity. If true there is 'only' seismic activity. In the past there have been very violent volcanic eruptions there so lets hope for the best. The two items of today are: 

Item 1) And another oil attack & what about that peace plan?
Item 2) Deep fake video's still getting better and better. 

 Item 1) And another oil attack & what about that peace plan?

And another oil attack done with a bunch of drones done this week, this time in something known as Krasnodar Krai. Some people remark that since Russian oil installations came under attack, since then there is also a decline in the daily number of attacks done by the Russians. That is only a correlation of course but militaries use an enormous amount of fuel and likely all that old army material they use is not that fuel efficient.
But to answer the question when such a correlation becomes a more cause & effect relation you must have much more insight in how those Russian oil installations work in practice. The diverse capacities, the logistics of it all, is there spare capacity and so on and so on. Of course I have no such specialist knowledge but it is not unreasonable that the oil attacks are indeed very hindering to day to day Russian military operations. I have two news articles for you, the first one is from Pravda and you can click on the picture if you want to read the latest news on this subject:

Article title: Ukraine's defence forces hit Russian oil refinery and air defence system. Link used:
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/5/7496840/

The second article is from oil price dot com where I did forget to explicit look for article a bit explaining if the attacks on Russian oil installations is so bad it highers the oil price for some types of oil.

Article title: Massive Ukrainian Drone Attack Targets Russian Oil Refineries. Link used: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/
Massive-Ukrainian-Drone-Attack-Targets-Russian-Oil-Refineries.html
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In a very different development it was rumored that on Bloomberg there was some sketch of a peace plan. So I tried to check it but it was behind a registration wall and although it was for free I declined. Beside that on Radio Free Europe it was said that Keith Kellog himself denied that he will unfold the plan in Germany where some meeting will take place. Here is the RFE article:

Article title: Kellogg Rejects Report That Trump's Ukraine Peace Plan Will Be Revealed Next Week. Link used: https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-
envoy-keith-kellogg-speaks-munich-security-conference-ukraine-war/
33304662.html

It is indeed complicated stuff, I have no idea what a long term solution could look. It is a matter of fact that at the Kremlin they are not emotionally very stable and once Putin has one more of his perpendicular bowel winds all agreements will be broken again.

Also the UA prez hasn't heard a thing, he expects that Ukraine will have input into the plan too while at the same time the EU wants a seat at the table too. Here is a quote:  

In comments on February 6, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is certain that there is no official U.S. plan yet, suggesting that any  formal plan should be coordinated with Kyiv. 

So it is all very complicated to say the least. With that let us go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Deep fake video's still getting better and better. 

I'm now about 95% finished with the new math post on a fourth fundamental theorem of calculus. Of course this fourth one is on my beloved 3D complex numbers. I estimate in the next update on this website it will be finished, ok ok I could rewrite some parts or add more but it's already long enough and it doesn't have to be ultra perfect.  

Therefore I only want to show you a fresh video on the AI generated deep fakes and they are still getting better. If you search for yourself on youtube with the title as shown below, you can see that the guy from this channel uses the same title for more video's. So he is reporting on the developments in this subfield for some time now. 

This deepfake model is such that you only have to show it a picture and after that it can make any video with any text you want. There is even a short fragment with Albert Einstein and you get a very good black and white video to see. Here is the video: 

Video title: This AI deepfake tool is WAY too real. Full body animation.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgotWx7GmNI

And again this is all very interesting but how are you going to make money with this? Countless billions are invested and totally crazy plans to even build new nuclear fission plants for electricity production, but can anyone show me the big money maker?

That was it for this update, see you in a next one. 

(05 Feb 2025) On a possible trade war I have no comment beside it's stupid. Interesting detail that was not very sharp on my mind: We, our tiny country the Netherlands, are the fourth exporter of the USA. Here is from a small list I found:

1. Canada: $85.69 billion

2. Mexico: $80.16 billion

3. China: $36.85 billion

4. Netherlands: $22 billion

5. Germany: $19.82 billion

6. Japan: $18.97 billion

7. United Kingdom: $18.73 billion  

The smartest comment I heard from other people was that the USA wants to be a reserve currency and therefore they more or less have to import more as they export. Buying stuff from abroad is just a way of pumping dollars into the international financial system... I have nothing to add to that.
Lets go to the two items of today: 

Item 1) Paul Warburg on Russian banks & Russian tree huggers observed.
Item 2) New math post almost finished & more on artificial asses...

 Item 1) Paul Warburg on Russian banks & Russian tree huggers observed.

A few weeks back there was that crazy rumor that possibly the Russian government would raid the bank accounts of ordinary Russians. Well that would be pretty crazy, it is a very good way to get the entire population mad as hell. But since a few weeks there is also an alternative out; there were much much more loans to the Russian defense industry done as was in the eye of the public. 

So officially the Russian government spends 8.5% of their GDP on defense spending, the war in Ukraine in particular. But in the meantime the Russian banks were forced to make more or less secret loans to the very same war effort or the defense industry.

To be honest I don't know if it's true yes or no and it was figured out by just one person and I have not found the original analysis. But by now understanding a bit more as how the present Kremlin operates, it could very well be true. And again I have no proof or so but if true in that case likely the Russian banks are saturated with non performing loans. So that's very interesting if this is all true. A guy named Paul Warburg who likely lives in Utah USA has a video on it. Now it's not an extremely deep analysis but it's good enough for the time being. Click on the picture for the video: 

Video title: Russia’s Banks Are Literally Running Out of Money
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OFte5eBxIk

Now in the Russian army it is known that often it is a bit rough on it's own soldiers. On the one hand this is logical because you likely won't get those meat wave attacks without using some convincing arguments. I forgot to save the video link but it's from Warthog Defense and it was a video about the ratio of Russian losses to UA losses and that was about 1:7.
Of course that is not an overall statistic for the entire war but just some nasty spot along the long front line. Anyway I wanted to show you this lovely picture that shows even the Russians can become tree huggers...  

This is likely from just before they get tied to those trees. You know in almost all armies there are lets say asshole officers. But behavior like this is from some other planet or some old stuff from history, it is crazy. 

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) New math post almost finished & more on artificial asses...

I am now 3 or 4 hours in work further and it is mostly finished. The last images need to be made. After that the whole stuff can be turned into that relatively good png format so it can be used on the internet.

So the new post is about the fundamental theorem of calculus only now for the 3D complex numbers. And there are far less problems with formulating such a theorem as I expected all those years. If there are problems it is because there is some stuff in the functions you want to integrate that make it hard to find the primitive.

What you see in the "As simple as possible" calculation below is that I integrate from some point or 3D number A to B along a straight line. Of course this is not a proof that integration can always be done but as you see for yourself: For the calculation to work it just does not matter if those A and B are non-invertible numbers. Think of say the king or the queen of non-invertible numbers, that is zero. If your endpoint or startpoint or any midpoint is zero, that in itself won't give problems.
You must just follow the standard math rules like not dividing by zero and stuff like that. The calculation below says that integrating the identity along a line that connects two points gives the difference in the squares divided by 2. Just like you have along the real line but now in the entire 3D space. 

Now why do I place an ai generated female ass with it? That is because two days back my smart television with the youtube channel behaved a bit weird. I had only seen one or two short of those video's and all of a sudden all of the video's that were recommended to me were those dumb ai generated videos with ai generated bitches in them.

I can't remember to have ever had that before, my so called smart tv automatically logs in with my own Google account. So why the youtube suggestion or recommendation algorithm decided to show only ai generated stuff was a bit puzzling to me. 

A possible explanation might be that there are already so many fake ai video's out there that stuff from real people like I prefer of course gets all snowed under. May be we have already reached a tipping point in the sense that already that ai generated garbage is much much more in volume compared to stuff made by humans...

Who knows? Anyway that was it for this update. If you are a human thanks for your attention and see you in a next update here or the new math post on the other website about 3D complex numbers.

(31 Jan 2025) Here are the two item that make up this update:

Item 1) Another bingo card for Russian oil refineries & Swedish stuff.
Item 2) Boring video on quantum mechanics while Harry Potter...

 Item 1) Another bingo card for Russian oil refineries & Swedish stuff.

The prof Gerdes guy had found one of those funny bingo cards where with every successful attack on a Russian oil refinery, it gets crossed out. So that's in the video if you click on the picture below. All in all the Ukrainians have become experienced at this kind of drone attacks. It all started very underwhelming last year in January but back in the time I understood the possible consequences and that has more or  less come out; better and better over time.  

Video title: Ukrainians are Playing Russian Oil Refinery Bingo!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfuqNk2wnkg

Today I had the weird experience because the news out of the USA is constantly so crazy, that reading a bit of news on the Ukrainian war felt like reading normal stuff...  

Sweden came out with it's biggest package of military aid for Ukraine since the start of the war. Here is a Reuters report: 

Title: Sweden donates $1.2 billion aid package to Ukraine Link used:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-donates-12-
billion-aid-package-ukraine-2025-01-30/

Of course a lot more did happen but it's time to go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Boring video on quantum mechanics while Harry Potter...

Now don't get me wrong, I like quantum mechanics because it has so much math in it. So of course I like it, I only think there are some tiny faults here and there because of a lack of experimental validation of stuff that is generally held for true. 

Stuff like electrons are tiny bipolar magnets and magnetic monopoles don't exist. Ok that non-existence is may be hard to prove, but all in all there just isn't any experimental evidence that electron spin is what it claimed it is.  

I think that electrons are magnetic monopoles and that for example explains why there are two kinds of circular polarized light photons. So I was curious at first when I came across the next video title: "Chapter 6: Spin one-half and polarized light (Quantum Mechanics Done Right video 11)".
But what I hoped for wasn't mentioned at all, no explaining what the relation is between electron spin and the circular polarization of photons. No it was all that standard crap as is being recycled for decades and decades. For example the only experiment the guy mentions is the Stern-Gerlach experiment from 103 years back and that's it.
Now at some point in time this guy comes up with a quantum operator that he names S₊. And this operator is supposed to change the spin of an electron. The only problem is: As far as I know you can't flip electron spin and also there is no experimental evidence that you can actually flip the electron spin.

Just as all that stuff like ladder operators or creation and destruction operators, it is often nice math but hard to do on command in the practice of say a physics laboratory. It's not forbidden to do of course but I view it more as some mathematical fantasy. In my view, if you use an operator for say flipping the spin of an electron, that should be based in lab experiments. And not based on talking out of your neck claiming all is a five sigma science. Only when a high enough statistical evidence is found, it is allowed to enter physics theory.
But in practice the Gauss law for magnetism is used all the time as some kind of axiom while it is never tested at all.

Now the video is a bit boring but if you have never seen a lesson in quantum mechanics may be it is a good thing to watch for a few minutes.       

Video title: Chapter 6: Spin one-half and polarized light (Quantum Mechanics Done Right video 11). Link used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=850kKG_z1pw

The excuse of the guy above I can say all those teachers of quantum mechanics more or less do this; the operators they talk about, it is often hard to phantom how this in the lab should work.
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On a bit of a lighter note I came across one of those new AI video's. This one is a version of a North Korean Harry Potter. I have no idea if the text from the song in the video is actually translated, I don't speak Korean North or South.   

Video title: Harry Potter - North Korea Wizard (Official Music Video)
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vv21pKqxUs

It is from a person that names his or her self "demonflyingfox" on Youtube. There are many more Harry Potter video's out there, of course also those redneck trailer park kind of stuff. It's very American but funny to watch contrary to all that political stuff going on over there. 

Ok that was it for this update, I just poured in a nice 0.75 liter pint of home brew so that will keep me busy for the time being. As always thanks for your attention. 

(29 Jan 2025) Well it seems that a bit of air has escaped from the AI bubble in stock market valuations. If it's all true, that company DeepSeek is not a robot for finding lost tampons, no for only about 6 million US$ they made a workable form of AI. And again, if all true, that is a serious blow to all that overhyped ai stuff. Lets go to the two items for today.  

Item 1) Handcuffed Russian soldiers & oversight of drone attacks.
Item 2) That pair of cute limits repeated. 

 Item 1) Handcuffed Russian soldiers & oversight of drone attacks.

Suchominus had one more of those weird and crazy video's. It is the transport of a bunch of Russian soldiers all handcuffed together. It is complete without any geolocation and the guess of Suchominus is that likely these are a bunch of Russian prisoners. That could very well be, what I found a bit strange myself is they seem to be having a good time relative to the circumstances. So it's all a bit strange: 

Video title: Russians Handcuffed Together On the Way to the Front So They Can't Run Away (Likely Convicts) Link used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWHifXdUpOU

The next video is a bit longer and is more or less a good oversight of all those drone attacks from lately. It is presented by Chuck Pfarrer and it's from the Kyiv Post. What the Ukrainians can do with their home produced drones is indeed impressive and one thing is clear: warfare has evolved to now including a terrible lot of drone stuff. As always click on the picture to land at the video: 

Video title: Kyiv Post - Ukraine’s Largest Drone Strike on Russia.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuT9xZr_jlU

And then still is there the weird situation with Greenland where Donald Trump keeps insisting that Greenland becomes part of the USA. I really can't comment on it because it is all so crazy, Greenland is part of Denmark for I don't know, 600 or 800 years? Well lets say since medieval times and now it must forcefully go to the USA?   

Likely we will see four years of this kind of stuff, well it is what it is I just guess. Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) That pair of cute limits repeated. 

The new post is making progress but still isn't finished by far. And of course it's a hobby so I don't have to work 8 hours a day on it but only for fun. But it's good to write this all together for more or less the first time, the fundamental theorem of calculus but now for the 3D complex numbers.

Now back in 1990 or 1991 I already understood that you could do integration on a 3D space in this way, just by simply using a primitive. So it is good that finally after all those years to put it together. Of course all those years when I needed some 3D integration myself I always did this shamelessly because it always worked. Ok ok, the integrals it generates can be hard to crack, but if cracked I always had a nice box of math candy so to say.

But in order to cross all the t's and dot all the i's, I also had to explain how to differentiate on the non-invertible parts of the 3D numbers. Because if you can't differentiate, are you allowed to use a primitive? And it was just a couple of weeks back that I found a satisfactory was of expressing the stuff. That are the two cute limits in the image below.

Next week I should be a lot further so now I don't have a link or so. 

The beta in the above limits is the direction of the derivative, you always differentiate into some direction. And you run into trouble if you can't divide by such a number beta but with the simple trick in the lower limit it is still possible to make some edible stuff out of it. 

That was it for this update, thanks for your attention and lets go saufen! 

(24 Jan 2024) And for this update the two items are:

Item 1) Attacking on Crutches, weird Russian oil tanks & more UA stuff.
Item 2) An empty item, just a picture of a female looking at a theorem.

 Item 1) Attacking on Crutches, weird Russian oil tanks & more UA stuff.

The next screenshot if from a video from Davys Denydov, I don't have a link for you, but it is totally crazy. Guys walking on crutches have to attack Ukrainian positions. In another video I observed a few of those slowly going through a field likely to a certain death. Why don't they use pictures like this in recruitment advertising for military service in Russia? 

From the next video I did save a link, it's from the channel Reporting from Ukraine. He comes up with how some of the Russian oil storage tanks now look, it is also bizarre and likely not foreseen in Feb 2022 by all those brilliant Kremlin strategists. Click on the picture for the video, it's about five minutes long: 

Video title: NO STOPPING NOW: Russians Lost THEIR 400-KM RADAR!
Link Used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INGAkzwfVBU

In another development a few people remarked that the USA envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellog, was asked to pull out that 100 day plan for achieving peace in Ukraine. But I could not find much news on that detail, the Wall Street Journal had an article on it but it's behind a paywall and I don't think most people that read this have a subscription on the WSJ. 

Well I wish all involved all the luck in the world because it is 100% sure all such attempts will have a high rate of failure. In particular I wish Keith Kellog the best in trying to get something done. 

With that lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) An empty item, just a picture of a female looking at a theorem.

Originally I wanted to link to some intergalactic magnetic stuff. It seems there are not only huge magnetic fields inside the milky way but even much bigger magnetic structures between galaxies. Of course the people from astrophysics can't explain this because they only have a dynamo principle for explaining huge magnetic fields. As you might expect, a dynamo thing is electricity going round and that produces a magnetic field.

As such if magnetic fields are so huge they are between entire galaxies, of course the official science will have a hard time explaining that. But if electrons are magnetic monopoles and not tiny bipolar magnets and on top of that there is a mechanism that can separate this magnetism in say the particle beams of active galactic nuclei, the whole thing might at least partially explained.  

So let me save that for some other update. In the meantime the new post on that fundamental theorem of calculus for my 3D complex numbers isn't finished by far. In about a week time I should be much further with the completion of that thing. I have nothing to link to so just a picture of some steampunk video where an ai generated female figure is 'looking' at my formulation of this fundamental theorem for 3D numbers. 

The time has come for you and me to split, so may be see you in another update. Thanks for your attention. 

(22 Jan 2025) The two items for this update are:

Item 1) Oil strikes from last week & new US administration.
Item 2) Are there three fundamental theorems of calculus?

  Item 1) Oil strikes from last week & new US administration.

For no particular reason but I found the picture below having a nice looking outlay so I decided to make a screenshot from it. It is from a video of that UA pilot guy, Denys Davydov. I think the video is about half an hour long but I'm now offline so I can't check it and in itself is it not that important. And there were even more attacks on Russian oil installations last week beside the four pictured below.

Video title: Wow! Ukraine goes all in Striking Ruzzian Oil Infrastructure.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efgN2Qcyuk

In a very different kind of news, the BBC had some report of a weird case of corruption in the UA army. This sounds like a relatively large case, just look at the title:

Ukrainian army psychiatrist arrested on $1m corruption charge
Link used: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7dvl0gn1lo

In the USA, one of the presidential orders was holding all foreign aid for 3 months. I don't know if that also means Ukraine. And Rubio vows to make the State Dept the center piece of US foreign policy. Well lets hope the State Department will just do that. A Reuters report:  

Rubio vows to put State Dept at core of Trump foreign policymaking
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/marco-rubio-becomes-
secretary-state-emphasizes-america-first-agenda-2025-01-21/

Rubio also voiced he wants the war over as soon as possible. Well who doesn't? But there is a fundamental problem, the Kremlin has violated all there was on the Minsk accords. So why should they keep their side of a new accord? I have no idea how to solve this problem, in my view at the Kremlin they are just not a bunch of rational actors...

Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Are there three fundamental theorems of calculus?

I have been working on a new post about the so called fundamental theorem of calculus. That's the thing with an integral of a function and you must find a primitive or a so called anti-derivative. And in my mind there was only one such theorem but since I was writing this new post I decided to look it up and it seems that more or less common knowledge says there are three of them.

Ok ok, there might be some point to that. But say with another theorem that everybody knows, the Pythagorean theorem, we simply say there is a Pythagorean identity for this or that on a such or so space. Oh the other hand, that third version of the fundamental theorem of calculus is about integration on the complex plane. And that explains a lot: They don't know of more spaces where you can make such a fundamental theorem. 

For many years I have skipped the formulation of this theorem, I always thought there would be huge and complicated problem if you would do integration on those non-invertible numbers. As such it could be problematic to even try and find an anti-derivative aka a primitive. If you can't divide by such numbers, that gives the same nonsense as say dividing by the number zero. 

The post isn't finished by far, but in the picture with that AI generated thing that looks like a female, you can see it. It is just like on the complex plane only now in the space of 3D complex numbers. From Wolfram Math I link to an article about the three versions of the fundamental theorem:

Article title: Fundamental Theorems of Calculus.
Link used: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fundamental
TheoremsofCalculus.html

So we now have one more fundamental theorem of calculus.

In a very different thing, if you look at the picture above you see fast it is some ai generated stuff. The skin is often to perfect or there is some vague shine that you don't see in real photo's from real people. But today I came across a video and I was looking like one or two full minutes if this was fake or real. But it gave itself away in the small details, somewhere in the background was some guy with a bike and all of a sudden he started to vibrate in a way that is impossible in real life. So that generative ai stuff still makes progress by the month, that's impressive for sure.  

With that we are at the end of this update, as always thanks for your attention and have a good time. 

(17 Jan 2025) Two items for this update:

Item 1) Sanctioned ships, drone attacks & so on; UA stuff.
Item 2) Is math found or made? And that lost SG video found back.

 Item 1) Sanctioned ships, drone attacks & so on; UA stuff.

Well it's the last week of the outgoing US administration and there is a significant amount of new sanctions out. I didn't even have the time to flea through all the details but about 120 of those shadow fleet are now sanctioned. So that's a good thing because the last thing we need is an oil spill in say the North Sea Or before Ireland or so. And of course it's a good thing because it will hurt Russia in the wallet. Interesting detail is that oil prices seem to be a bit up but I didn't check if it's significant. If almost all Russian oil does not reach foreign markets anymore, that could have the potential of raising oil prices globally. So thanks my dear USA, it's great to have a package like this.

In a very strange development, more a vague rumor I guess, there was fear in Russia that ordinary bank accounts would be frozen. That is so crazy that it's hard to phantom that such a thing is actually true...

There were more drone and missile attacks done by Ukraine against Russian targets. A few times I heard that one million tons of fuel & oil was set on fire. Is that actually true? A million tons is one billion kg of fuel so that's even more as one billion liters because fuel weighs less as water. But if that fuel storage place served that large airfield Engels and has to serve more big fuel guzzlers may be it is a large hit.

The Sun had a video out, it was about 8 minutes long, about a few of those strikes. But there is a lot going on on a daily basis so it's hard even for professional media outlets to cover it all. Click on the picture for the video:

Video title: Explosions rip through huge Russian ammo factory as Ukraine drone wave flies deep behind enemy lines. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcJlEhk-7gA

Ammo storage and production facilities also came under Ukrainian attack, so the Kremlin can be glad and happy that Putin will not be bored. Lets all try to prevent that the Vlad gets bored, such negative emotions will lead to nothing but bad outcomes don't you think? 

But serious, there were also a lot of attacks done by Russia on Ukraine. The UK pm Starmer was visiting Kyiv and even then there were attacks on the Ukrainian capital. So Russia is loosening that protocol that says when foreign leaders are here or there there are no attacks here and there. So we see once more that it is hard to make some kind of deal with Russia, why should they want to keep to their side of the deal? In all likelihood that's not going to happen, anyway I see no easy solution to it. 

Here is an article from CNN, the glow seems to be from a Russian drone that was hit: 

Article title: Ukraine and Russia launch major strikes on each other with Trump’s inauguration days away.
Link used: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/15/europe/ukraine-russia-
strikes-trump-inauguration-intl/index.html

After the weekend there is a new US administration so we have to wait and see what changes and what stays the same. With that lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Is math found or made? And that lost SG video found back.

There is that false dichotomy going round where people pretend to be smart if they ask the question "Is math discovered or invented?". Only if you don't know much math this is a question worth pondering. 

You can see how dumb and false this dichotomy is by replacing the word 'math' by say food or tools. Is food discovered or invented? Are tools discovered or invented?

The way I see it is that in math you have both at the same time. A discovery is something relatively simple but more or less unexpected because you weren't looking for it. For example I found the 3D complex numbers in just a few seconds and it was just a wild thought.
And a very different example is when a few years back we looked al all that advanced Pythagoras stuff related to non-square matrices. And I had found a way of making a non-square matrix into a square matrix by adding new columns that were always perpendicular to all previous columns in the matrix. Well that was clearly an invention because I clearly understood such a thing could be done but the precise technical details are still unknown. And an invention like this is always more complicated as a discovery is.  

And for food and tools go similar things, the first pizza's were not discovered growing from a pizza tree. And stones for usage as tools were not invented but always found and discovered. While when stones were first shaped before usage in say a stone axe or the tip on an arrow, that sounds much more like inventing stuff.  

So the first video can be taken with a grain of salt, in my view this kind of question is wrong. Likely the formula you see below is one of those Ramanujan things, and likely this one too has the property that it converges amazingly fast. I think the person that made this video has had little math, you see an equal sign at the pi thing, but it's just the first approximation for this Ramanujan idea. Pi really isn't what it says below but likely already good for say 5 may be 6 digits. Click on the picture if you want to see the not so good video:

Video title: Is Mathematics Found or Made? | Mathematical Platonism
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c75W51wC8-U

Beside this, it can vary very much from person to person what they consider a discovery versus an invention. If the mathematical level is very different, such persons might have very different opinions compared to what you think of it. Take for example the Math Queen. That sounds already as the USA and yes I think she is from there. With amazing I viewed a few of her video's, a couple of weeks back she solved the amazing equation x = x/5 but I couldn't find it back. So I selected the next very hard problem:

Video title: Can you solve this equation? – Math tutorial.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKV-iXEvN8

But stupid people are everywhere. One of my first paid jobs was teaching say 15 year old boys a bit of what on that school passed as 'math'. For example the next difficult problem:

A garage door is 3.7 meters high. A truck that is 2.40 meters high rides through the open door. How much space is there between the truck and the door frame?

And a lot of them just couldn't process stuff like that... Of course in groups of boys like that often there is also an unwillingness to cooperate in any kind of lesson. But really a lot of them just did not see you had to subtract these numbers...  

With that lets not say the world is full of idiots but be a bit more positive and say there luckily is room for improvement.
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At last I found back that video from the Science Asylum. I think I made some weird mistake myself in editing my last post and somehow pasted in some weird private link. But I found the video back so if you want to enjoy the Science Asylum talking about the famous Stern Gerlach experiment be my guest:

Physics Misunderstood This Experiment For Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7tEacBelmk   

So my last post on this SG experiment on the other website is now repaired, in case you missed it, here is the link once more:

Two more video’s on the Stern Gerlach experiment from the year 1922.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2025/01/05/two-more-videos-
on-the-stern-gerlach-experiment-from-the-year-1922/ 

That was it, thanks for your attention. 

(15 Jan 2025) The two items for this 15-th of January are:

Item 1) Sanctions & oil, Russian propaganda & drone attacks.
Item 2) This video says quantum computing is a hoax, do you agree?

Item 1) Sanctions & oil, Russian propaganda & drone attacks. 

Ok, those sanctions against the shadow fleet of old and rotten oil tankers seem to be working in the sense it was reported a lot of them can't go to their destination and unload the oil. So that's a good thing but can we and will we keep those ships out of our waters? I have no idea what you can do legally but the likelihood of another oil spill is very large of course. 

Anyway it was good news that some of those oil tankers could not unload.

For some time I already wanted to take a short look at those weirdo's from Russian state television. And it is often amazingly stupid, just regular talk of for example nuking London or Paris. We had decades of the cold war and all those years the prevailing doctrine was nicknamed MAD from Mutual Assured Destruction. Those Russian lunatics think they can use nukes and after that nothing happens? I don't know. What I self find interesting is that from a psychological perspective, why do they need television shows like this? UATV had a video on it, as always click on the picture if you want to see it:   

Video title: "We Got GERMAN TANKS on Russian Soil" – Russian Propaganda Hysteria. Link used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fTbZBxmAfI

A whole lot more did happen but there was a record breaking drone attack on Russian targets by Ukraine. I don't know exact numbers but likely it were over one hundred drones. On a relative vague photo you could see a drone that looked a lot like an Iranian Shahed drone, so may be the Ukrainians copied that concept of an ultra cheap drone with what is it, 40 kg of explosives?

All in all a lot of targets were hit and it was a bit awkward that the Russian ministry of defense came out by stating this will not be unanswered. I vaguely remember that the great and stable genius Putin himself said that peace is such a boring thing and that's why we have war. Well the Ukrainians are only trying to lift the spirits by bringing more war to Russia otherwise Putin is just so bored.

The Kyiv Post had an article on the stuff:   

So it is hard to say where they are more crazy: At the floor of the famous Russian state television or the weirdo's from the Russian ministry of defense... 

Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) This video says quantum computing is a hoax, do you agree?

Only in the intro they say it's a hoax, likely as a form of tickling your brain because relatively fast they start defending the concept of quantum computing.  

Every year I become a bit more skeptical about all those wild proposals they make for say the qubits. All kinds of two level systems are crammed into a qubit, for example if an electron is there or not. And if you don't observe it, it is in a mixed state of having an electron or not.

For myself speaking I only consider it possible to a quantum thing to be in more states at the same time if those states are associated with precisely the same energy levels. As soon as the energy levels are different, the whole concept of a possible superposition breaks down. It's just an opinion because I don't have some fancy lab where I can do experiments that confirm that but it sounds a bit more plausible as what I hear those professionals claim.

So there could be all kinds of deep problems with the concept of super position. But also entanglement could be problematic, without all that long range entanglement between qubits the quantum computer just would not have that exponential range of possible states to be in and the whole thing won't work out of principle. 

And there too the physics professors can talk weird, take a look at the strange sounding name of "Parametric down conversion". That is a crystal where it is possible that one photon in becomes two photons of the same energy. And because of that the professors claim the two photons are entangled.
But if in such a crystal say instead of one electron jumping up and down the energy ladder because of the incoming photons, but very seldom an electron pair jumps up to a higher energy level and later falls down producing two photons in doing so.
If my idea's of electrons being magnetic monopoles, if a pair jumps you will always have two photons of opposite circular polarization. And if that all is true that just doesn't prove all that talk of non-locality. (Non locality is the idea that if you measure one quantum particle, the other at a very different position will change too.).

As you will see, in the video they just don't address problems like this. Just as the claim in the video that quantum computers will be good for simulating chemical reactions. You hear that very often and it sounds good but in say 30 years of quantum computing no one has ever made some good algorithm to so such stuff. If they think that electrons are tiny magnets because someone else said so, even if they manage to craft a good scalable quantum computer it just won't work for chemistry based on chemical reactions involving electron pairs.    

So in the video, without insulting the participants, I think we see just more people that are what I call "beyond repair". With that I mean if you show them good solid evidence that say electrons are not tiny magnets, they will automatically ignore it. It does not resonate in their brains, those brains are beyond repair. 

I selected a picture not from the video but from some gothic steampunk made with the good old MidJourney. In AI everything goes still fast and furious while in scientific branches like quantum computing or nuclear fusion reactors there is almost zero progress because of that blatant not understanding electron spin. 
So the IAI video can be viewed if you click on the nice looking AI bitch:

Video title: The quantum hoax | Dominic Walliman, Joscha Bach, Ruth Oulton. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLBZEfJAN44

Ok that's it for this update.

(10 Jan 2025) The two items for this update:

Item 1) The 155th Brigade (in Dutch) & last Ramstein meeting...
Item 2) Why does the Dirac equation have four solutions and not two?

Item 1) The 155th Brigade (in Dutch) & last Ramstein meeting... 

The video is in Dutch, it's from a guy named Tom Lassing and he makes video's in Dutch about the Ukraine war. Anyway I had heard only vague details about this 155th brigade and yes this was a blatant failure. In France alone if the figures are correct, when they were training there were 500 desertions...
But it's good it comes out in the open so everybody can take notice and may be learn a bit of the stuff that went wrong. As Tom remarks, it is wrong if the entire brigade is made up of conscripts. Soldiers, sergeants and officers were all conscripts. I agree with that, you must have some backbone of professional leadership that stays while conscripts rotate.   

In practice because of the war a lot of conscripts don't rotate at all. A lot of Ukrainian soldiers are on the same spot on the frontline for almost 3 years now. And at some point they just had enough and become deserters. That's understandable and for the UA army this is a complicated thing to deal with.

Anyway in the Dutch video Tom remarks that he has been a conscript himself and lives on the royal salay of 500 Dutch guilders. I can relate to that, when I was a conscript we got the minimum wage as was legal here but from that were withdrawn the costs for housing and food. So I got about 750 guilders a month. So for  the Dutch, click on the picture for Tom's video:  

Video title: De 155e brigade, daar is van alles bij misgegaan.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT7YYXTO4JU

In 10 days we have a new administration in Washington so a lot is still unsure. Well in a few weeks we will know more, if weapon deliveries stop or decline that will costs a whole lot of Ukrainian soldiers their lives. So lets hope for the best.

There was a latest Ramstein meeting, I don't know if this is or was the last meeting or just the latest. That too is totally unknown but for a long time everybody saw this moment coming so lets hope for the best.

Of course I am not an official institution but I would like to thank the US SecDef Lloyd Austin for all his time and commitment. And of course all the logistics personnel from the US military, without their hard work a lot of stuff just wasn't there. And there was a serious low of course when during that long time there were no deliveries at all. That was more a political problem and for the US military that must have been frustrating to say the least. 

From Ukraine Inform I selected the next article:   

Title: Participants of Ramstein meeting approve eight roadmaps to support Ukraine through 2027. Link used: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-
defense/3946736-participants-of-ramstein-meeting-approve-eight-
roadmaps-to-support-ukraine-through-2027.html

As always I have to skip a lot of things so lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Why does the Dirac equation have four solutions and not two?

I have a video from the World Science Festival that is rather long and it is about matter versus antimatter. This video is about six years old and is 1.5 hours long. But it starts with the famous Dirac equation and if you like it a bit more hardcore math there is also a link to a wiki on that equation of Paul Dirac. 

Paul Dirac became world famous because he more or less predicted antimatter with math before antimatter was discovered in the form of positrons or the anti electron. In the video you see a kind of panel on a stage talking about this antimatter stuff. So all in all you must be looking at say 100 years of academic life in the form of these participants in the discussion. And yes they talk about the Dirac equation and that it was so important that he found solutions that at first sight made no sense. And later when it was confirmed that positrons existed, all of a sudden they made sense.

But the whole panel does not discuss why there are four solutions needed, well that's easy to explain: Dirac needed two solutions for the electron spin and with the wisdom of hindsight, two more for antimatter here positrons and other spin half Fermions like quarks and so. 

The official version of electron spin is that it's a tiny magnet and as such you can view it as a tiny vector pointing into the 'north pole direction'. I don't mean the actual north pole of the earth, but the north pole parts of the electron magnetic field.

This gives one of the many problems there are with viewing electrons as tiny bipolar magnets, this time it is not an energy problem but a 'continuous problem'. Now what do I mean with that?   

If it were true that electrons are tiny magnets, in that case you can change the direction of electron spin with an external magnetic field. As such you can in a continuous manner flip the electron spin until it is opposite to what it was.  

And as far as I know, you can't do that with the two solution from Paul Dirac. It's just two solutions and that's it. Now the last time I looked into that stuff must have been over five years ago and I am to lazy to do all that complicated Paul Dirac stuff again. But in my view the work of Dirac shows once more that magnetic states of the electron are very different and you can't transform one into the other.

And that is precisely what I think of electrons: they are all magnetic monopoles and you can't flip one into the other. It's just like their electric charge: permanent and monopole.

So if you want to avoid math, you can look at say the first 15 minutes of the video that covers the Dirac stuff: 

Video title: The Matter Of Antimatter: Answering The Cosmic Riddle Of Existence. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMMgsjnI1is

And if you are a bit more math hardcore and never looked at the Dirac way of handling an equation like that, for the math itself it is already interesting, you can try the next wiki or do some searching for yourself:

Dirac equation.
Link used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_equation

At last I want to remark that if true that electrons are magnetic monopoles, it makes no sense at all to talk about superposition of the magnetic states. Also the idea's of Paul about magnetic monopoles are not correct, but year in year out that is the guiding mechanism at CERN for their experiments that year in year out carry zero fruit. No no CERN weirdo's: Why don't you craft some experimental evidence that indeed electrons are tiny magnets in case that is what you believe to be true.

Lets leave it with that so I can upload this to our giant garbage can: the internet. And may be pop open a pint of my own brewed beer, yes why not? So thanks for your attention in case you made it this far.  

(08 Jan 2025) Two item's for the update of this day:

Item 1) Surprise Kursk attacks by Ukraine, is it pre 20 Jan stuff?
Item 2) Small advertisement on the latest post on the other website.

 Item 1) Surprise Kursk attacks by Ukraine, is it pre 20 Jan stuff?

For months the Russians are trying to repel the Ukrainian forces from their soil. They made some gains but all in all it's far from finished. If memory serves it was 01 Oct from last year that the great and inspirational strategist Putin ordered his army to wipe out that futile Ukrainian exercise.  

Time and again and again the Kremlin orders for stuff their own army just can't do. Could it be they live in some kind of fantasy land?
Some observers tied this interesting attack, small scale on three places and they even use tanks without them getting destroyed by enemy drones, to the impending inauguration of the new US prez Donald Trump.

It's hard to say, the Russians too seem to get a bit more ground and yes that too could be tied to the 20-th of Jan or not. What I myself find a bit weird in a lot of comments is that the emphasis lies on the fact that Ukraine is loosing ground and that often told in a tone as "See they are loosing". Well yes in that way they loose but the Russian daily casualties are only so high because Russia is grabbing small pieces of land. Without that Russia would by far not burn to that weird amount of soldiers as they do month in month out. It's a complicated situation but one thing has become much more clear in the last almost three years: Most other military professionals now have a far better insight in what the Russian army can do and what not. Of course that is priceless valued information and for that I would like to say thank you to the smart asses inside the Kremlin...;)   

Ok, I have one video for you. It is from the Sun. As always click on the picture if you want to see it or search for some news yourself: 

Video title: Ukraine breaks through Putin’s defences using UK-made tanks in lightning three-pronged counter-blitz.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIAohthUVK8

That was all for this update because I did forget to take a look at the Ruble rates against other currencies. So may be another time and may be there is nothing new to find. Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Small advertisement on the latest post on the other website.

So I finished the latest post and although it contains almost no math all in all it was 10 images long only to find out the main video I had selected was more or less removed from Youtube...

It now says it's a private video and you must log in in order to view it if you have viewing rights. So I have no idea what's going on, all in all the video from the Science Asylum about the Stern-Gerlach experiment from the year 1922 was relatively good. There's plenty of garbage video's with far worse animations out there and again the guy from the Science Asylum tries to explain why electron so anti-align. That's very seldom, almost one 100% of the physics professors skip that question or just neglect it. But it's a very serious energy problem; how can the electrons gain potential energy out of nothing? 

Now I already downloaded the video in case I want to make some sreenshots while I am not online. Beside that with a medial player like VLC you can much better select the individual frames and sometimes that is a handy feature. And as soon as you visit a site like Youtube you get a 100 or more cookies, trackers and tracers because life is life and Google just wants to suck each and every penny of worth there is in your userdata. So if you download a video and view it later, your data are not used by Google.   

It is tempting to place the video here on this website so from the other website you can see it from there. But after a bit of thinking I decided not to do that because I don't know for what reason(s) the Youtube video was withdrawn. So now I have a new post without the main video in it.

By the way, the guy from the Science Asylum is Nick Lucid and he remarks an interesting idea inside physics: They think that because electrons are just like tiny magnets, they don't get accelerated by a constant magnetic field. That's that homogeneous stuff they always talk about, that's just a field that is constant in space. Anyway that would be a way to falsify my own idea's of electrons being magnetic monopoles. After all if they are magnetic monopoles also in a very constant or homogeneous magnetic field they will get accelerated. So it's pretty shitty I can't do such experiments myself. 

But the new post is finished & published so click on the steampunk owl if you want to see that post: 

Post title: Two more video’s on the Stern Gerlach experiment from the year 1922. Link used:  https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2025/01/05/two-more-videos-
on-the-stern-gerlach-experiment-from-the-year-1922/

That was it for this update, let me wish the Ukrainians all the luck they need in this new year because something tells me they might need it. As always thanks for your attention.

(03 Jan 2025) Of course a happy and most of all healthy new year for you. Let me try to keep it short, here are the two items for today: 

Item 1) Euromaidan explains how NK troops get decimated.
Item 2) New post is almost finished, here's some blah blah...;)

  Item 1) Euromaidan explains how NK troops get decimated.

It seems to be going from bad to worse for the NK soldiers in the Kursk region or oblast as they name it over there. They still cross open terrain with large groups and are still unaware that they are literally seen by drones. Interesting to observe is that apparently the Russian are not able to communicate stuff like that to them. Or may be the Russians just don't care and if they need more NK soldiers they just open a new can...

The picture is from a bunch of NK soldiers in Pyongyang, if you click on the picture you land at the Euromaidan article. Anyway that is what I hope because this looks like some eternal long article that grows longer over time. But placing a good hyperlink can be done although I never do that anymore on this website. 

Title: Frontline report: North Korean “human bait” tactic fails catastrophically in Kursk offensive.
Link used: https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/01/frontline-report-
north-korean-human-bait-tactic-fails-catastrophically-in-kursk-offensive/

Let me skip all the other news and lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) New post is almost finished, here's some blah blah...;)

Lately I decided to make a new magnetism post from that video from the guy from the Science Asylum. Scroll down a few updates in case you haven't seen it, it's about the Stern-Gerlach experiment.
And I found a second video from the university of Illinois and that video is 'bad' in the sense that it as most video's simply skips the part that come from crazyland. Stuff like the anti-alignment of the electron pair or the anti-alignment of individual electrons as an 'explanation' for the outcome of the 1922 SG experiment.  

If memory serves it was Feb 2015 when I for the first time learned from that experiment and my explanation was 'possible magnetic monopoles' in the sense that electrons were not magnetic dipoles as is widely believed but has not experimental basis at all.

There is hardly any math in the new post, most of it is already shown in the picture below. But I haven't written the post yet so there is no link to it now.  

The background picture is from some ai generated video about retro future where USA looking humans from the 1950 do futuristic stuff like riding in a flying car. It's all nice looking but so very fake and I still don't understand how to make some money with all this new ai.

I also came across a third video but I won't use it for the new post. It is the famous Hanky Panky professor! Anyway that is how I name him, I think he has a real name of Seth LLoyd or something like that. In my house he is famous because years ago he explained his approach to quantum computing:  

If nature does some hanky panky quantum thing, then I try to use that hanky panky thing and see if I can use that in quantum computing.

And I found that very interesting, quantum computing or more general quantum mechanics is not something you study via experiment. No, you just use the scientific method of hanky panky... 

I selected him because together with his partner in crime from the World Science Festival they explain electron spin in the most stupid way: Via a rotating electron and on top of that saying that the electron can spin in opposite directions at the same time. And with nutjobs like that I guess it will take some time before a more or less working quantum computer is there. 

So as an antidote I placed a tiny bit of math for adults in that picture. I wouldn't recommend looking at the video but if you want here is the link:

Quantum Computing: Hype vs. Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1PsQIciMEc  

In the video you see mostly animations and it all is clearly for a very non-math audience. Now you must not think that television professors or in this case a MIT prof don't listen to voices. They listen to their own voice all of the time. And as long as people like it, the show will go on.

Therefore if you click on the picture you land at my last math post on the other website. A bit of math for the grown ups so to say. 

Math post title: Keep it simple: Take the line integral of the identity in two complex spaces.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2024/12/17/keep-it-simple-
take-the-line-integral-of-the-identity-in-two-complex-spaces/

That was it for this update, my estimate is the new magnetism post is up and running before the next update on this website. So thanks for your attention also in this new year and see you around. 

(27 Dec 2024) Next update is likely on 02 Jan 2025 so I skip my Tuesday update. I'll be gone on 31 Dec so let me wish you a happy new year. The two items for today are:

Item 1) Likely civilian air plane shot down & NK soldiers do not surrender.
Item 2) Oh oh, not experimenting on an electron beam? That's just dumb.

Item 1) Likely civilian air plane shot down & NK soldiers do not surrender.

A civilian air plane from Azerbaijan did crash and today video emerged where indeed all kinds of strange holes in the fuselage was to be seen. It was all far less dramatic as the MH-17 from 10 years back but 38 people were dead anyway. The Kremlin came out with a perfect statement as in the next quote from spokesperson Peskov:

In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "It would be wrong to 
put forward any hypotheses before the investigation's conclusions. We, of course, will not do this, and no-one should do this. We need to wait until the investigation is completed." 

Oh yeah back in 2014 there was a ton of evidence pointing to the use of a BUK system, it started with that video from a BUK truck driving round with just one of the rockets missing. Lots of tapped telephone conversations and so on and so on. But the Kremlin flatly denying the obvious.
Well I didn't like it very much that my fellow citizens included a lot of kids came falling from the sky from a height of 10 km. Now we are at about 700 thousand Russian casualties and counting and at my tea water I can feel a whole lot of Russians need to die before I am no longer bored at the situation. In the meantime, as far as I understand it, Putin is still bored at the idea of peace time? The BBC reporting on the present Kremlin reaction:

Russia warns against 'hypotheses' after Azerbaijan Airlines crash.
Link used: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp3qx0q7wo

In a very different development in Kursk the North Korean soldiers are killed en mass. With relative large groups they go through the forest likely not realizing they are clearly visible, not only by normal light but their infrared footprint is hard to hide against the cold snow.

Anyway it seems that they don't surrender so the Ukrainian soldiers have to kill the all. So why don't they surrender even if they come in an impossible combat situation? Of course nobody knows for sure, but it could very well be they are just commanded not to surrender and if they do it has rather severe consequences for their families back at home. Stuff like the three generation detention on one of those lovely North Korean prison holiday camps where the food is good and plentiful and labor conditions are those from a workers paradise.
So that could make it logical that they prefer to die instead of surrender. 

The video channel Reporting from Ukraine had a short video on it, even in the very small still picture below you can recognize the human figures :   

Video title: 25 Dec: BRUTAL: Ukrainian Special Ops TAKE NO PRISONERS. | War in Ukraine Explained.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grdUhr_hW-w

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Let me end the year on a light note. Recently there was some consternation that the stable genius Donald Trump had done some deep thinking and arrived at the conclusion that it would be better for everyone if Greenland became a part of the USA. Now I do not want to comment on stuff like that, I will not comment on a new strategy every day for the next four years. That is not an efficient way of using my time. Beside that I am a stable genius myself so there is already enough stability and geniality in my own life.  

There are more and more AI generated video's on youtube. There are already AI's that can do the singing for you; even if you are a male with a horrible voice the AI will make you sound as a perfect female voice if you select that. I don't know if the sound in the next video is also fake or if it's sung by a real human. The title of the song is a bit weird, what has that sexual addict Epstein to do with it? But it doesn't matter, it's just a funny song for the end of this year. The video is just a few minutes long: 

Video title: NEW SINGLE: Greenland Isn't For Epstein (Vikings)
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8wGQn9w4w

Enough of all that war & politics stuff, lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Oh oh, not experimenting on an electron beam? That's just dumb.

One week ago on the 20th I showed you a video from the guy from the Science Asylum channel. And I have decided to write a post about it for the other website because he is the first person in almost 10 years of time that tries to explain as why electron should anti-align themselves. He thinks it has to do with the angular momentum and of course it is not forbidden to think such thoughts. I think electron magnetism is just like electron electricity in the sense it is a charge and this magnetic charge is permanent just like the electric charge of permanent.

Since I thought that for the first time in they year 2015 of course I constantly tried to falsify my own idea but I never succeeded in that. For example the electron pair becomes much more logical when you view them as two opposing magnetic charges. While, as we saw in the last update, if you view them as tiny magnets you run in all kinds of very very weird energy problems that are just never properly explained by the professional physics professors.  

Now in the new post I look at that momentum stuff and also the math as how the electron acceleration in inhomogeneous magnetic fields is explained. Of course I have to remark that there is zero experimental validation that in constant or homogeneous magnetic fields there is no acceleration done by electrons. Of course the professors have no problem with that for say the last 102 years since the original SG-experiment. For my idea of magnetic monopoles it is crucial that you observe electron acceleration when you apply such a magnetic field. If not that would be the very first indication that I am wrong and the electron magnetic properties are not explained by saying "It's just like their electric charge". That would count as a full rigid falsification of that idea.

A second reason for writing this post is that he remarks that you should not take experiments on beams of electrons. And why not? Well the Lorentz force makes the electron beam feel the Lorentz force.
And as such moments I am no longer the stable genius I always try to be; No I jump around and shout at the youtube channel: You FUCKING IDIOT, you make your experiment such that the Lorentz force can do it's thing and the monopole magnetic charges their own thing and that's of course acceleration into the direction of the magnetic field lines. (The Lorentz force is perpendicular to that.) 

Now despite my social classification of a FUCKING IDIOT, I like the guy a lot and many of his video's are way better as this crap. As a person he is ok and no different to all other physics professionals: Always shallow thinking when that is needed the least of all things. Of course all the weird stuff comes from their belief that magnetic monopoles do not exist, so that generates more or less a kind of blind spot in their thinking.

The person in this video does indeed show the Lorentz force but clearly has no clue how to split the electron beam in two. He goes to the beam with just one side of the magnet, now of course that can work but may be it is better to use two magnets and see if you can split the beam in two. A complicating detail in a setup as shown below is the fact there is an anode and a cathode. The strongly positive cathode can spoil the whole thing, I don't know because I never tried it on a beam like this.

In case you haven't seen the video, click on the picture to land at the video: 

Video title: Physics Misunderstood This Experiment For Years
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRI1fCOQ0GA

I used an old black & white television and a set of neodymium magnets to split all electrons into two groups. At least a few times a year I posted some photo's from that, but hey physics professors are also university people. And as such what they do looks like science but it is always to be used to get more quotes and citations from their publications. And say for yourself; if they in a publication write that electron very likely carry a monopole charge and are not magnetic dipoles, in the first place they won't get it published and in the second place is published by accident it will get zero quotes and zero citations.

Well I have written enough for today, let me wish you a healthy new year and don't fall prey to too much too shallow thought. See you in a future update, thanks for your attention.

(25 Dec 2024) Let me wish everybody a nice Christmas. In my country we always have two Christmas days so most people with a job have two days off...;) But most shops are already open again on the 26-th but that's mostly big corporations stuff, small shops or family owned are often not opened on the second day of Chrismas.
The two items for this update are: 

Item 1) Interesting drone developments & Putin talking out of his neck.
Item 2) Once more showing the official electron pair is very weird.

 Item 1) Interesting drone developments & Putin talking out of his neck.

It seems the Ukrainians managed to stage a full drone attack on a Russian position. I didn't have the time to go through all details but is was a combined usage of ground drones and air drones or the FPV thing. So zero infantry running around! Well that's an interesting development because during the assault all Ukrainians were on a safe place anyway...
The Kyiv Independent had a short story on it:

Title:Ukraine war latest: For the first time, Ukraine attacks Russian positions using solely ground, FPV drones Link used:
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-for-the-first-time-
ukraine-attacks-russian-positions-using-solely-ground-fpv-drones/
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In another development Putin had one of his long releases with the public and the media. Of course I did not see it, it last hours and the guy is a nut job anyway. But he said the war started because he was bored, may be he was joking a little bit but he was bored as he said himself.

Now everybody knows that Ukrainians are very friendly people always trying to help and so they did. There was a beautiful drone attack in a place named Kazan on a high rise building and it brought back all kinds of memories because it looked a lot like the 911 attacks from a long time ago.

This was absolutely NOT BORING, it looked beautiful! And how did the mentally weird guy Putin react? Well he threatened Ukraine with more and more destruction so it is clear he is not mentally fresh. It is just dumb talking out of his neck just all the time.

I have a short video from India for you. From India? Well in that case I could skip the whole youtube thing so click on the picture to see it if you want to: 

Video title: Russia Hit by 9/11-Style Drone Attack, Multiple Buildings Damaged. Link used:
https://www.ndtv.com/video/russia-hit-by-9-11-style-drone-
attack-multiple-buildings-damaged-876502

It is very weird that while Russia itself is staging all kinds of attacks all the time, for some strange reason they are not allowed to do a bit in return. This reaction is strongly emotional and once more shows that you can never make some kind of peace deal with Russia. They might claim otherwise but you can easily neglect all that talking out of their necks. Putin is a fundamentally emotional unstable person, he just doesn't have what it takes to be a successful war leader, it's a bag of emotions combined with may be a 110 IQ brain and that is just to stupid to be a war leader.
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And at the Kremlin they are all of this kind of weirdness. Somewhere in the first half of this year Medvedev was standing on a stage bragging that Russia had no borders. And he made a big deal out of it: Russia has no borders! 

And later the Ukrainians decided to go van visit the Kursk region because they wanted to see how grandma was doing. And Medvedev reacted very emotional on that too while the idiot himself has stated that Russia has no borders.  

At the Kremlin all the grown ups are much more spoiled children who get emotionally upset if they are not allowed one of their spoiled children things. These are weird people: Don't they realize that in order to win a war you must have more as one working brain cell?

Kyiv Independent reports:
Title: Putin threatens 'more destruction' for Ukraine after Kazan drone strike.  Link used: https://kyivindependent.com/putin-threatens-
more-destruction-for-ukraine-after-kazan-drone-strike/

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Once more showing the official electron pair is very weird.

This year 2024 is almost over and last year I made the top of the picture below for usage during this entire year. It shows the more or less official version of the electron pair although likely no physics professor will depict it that way. They always do very vague about it.

But we have seen that again and again and again: When details about electron spin sound logical or are actually logical, they always talk about that. And the soon their theories lead into crazyland, that is just not talked about. It is always skipped, at best they mumble "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you do not understand quantum mechanics"  

So what they always leave out is that if the two electrons that make up an electron pair have opposite spins as must be by the Pauli exclusion principle, in that case we have weird stuff like I show you below.
You must give up that magnets aligned are in the lowest potential energy state, so you basically have to give up that only opposite magnetic poles attract. But the professors never say that, this detail is always skipped and instead you get a lot of bragging that physics is a so called "Five sigma science" and with that they mean that new experimental results are only accepted when it is more from five standard deviations from what the zero hypothesis says in statistical testing of their results.

Well that is very interesting but they don't have any fucking experimental proof that electrons are in fact tiny magnets. There is nothing of that stuff, for nine years I have been searching for it and they only talk out of their neck when it comes to electron spin. There's no link with this picture. 

I included the version of magnetic potential energy that physics professors use for the energy of a standard bipolar magnet. The dot represents the dot product, the mu is a vector namely the magnetic moment of that magnet. And the B is the applied magnetic field.
Now if mu and B point in the same direction, the dot product is a positive number and as such the potential energy U is negative. And that's good: potential energy always wants to be as low as possible, just like the brain activity of physics professors.

And if you fill in two opposing vectors like you see in the official version of the electron pair, the potential energy is positive contradicting what we know of nature: It always strives to lower the potential energy.  

An interesting observation, it's more sociology, is that it is obvious that physics as a science has zero capacity of cleaning herself up. Nobody reacts on what I say, nobody does a thing, nobody does any experiment to validate what they say or does an experiment what validates what I say and that is of course that electrons are magnetic monopoles.

I might just as well go to the moon or go to Mars and talk and explain to the rocks over there why electrons have all those fundamental energy problems when viewed as tiny magnets. And you don't have all those weird problems if you view them as magnetic monopoles. The result will be the same as with the physics professors: Nothing, just nothing year in year out.

Physics just isn't a five sigma science, at least not when it comes to the understanding of the magnetic properties of the electron. But it's time to end my little insignificant rant at the overpaid physics professors. So the time has come to split our ways and as always may I thank you for your attention?  

(20 Dec 2024) The items for this update:

Item 1) North Koreans like Chrismas & a new laser weapon?
Item 2) Just some blah blah talk & new SG-experiment video.

  Item 1) North Koreans like Chrismas & a new laser weapon?

The North Koreans in the Kursk region seem to enjoy hefty losses, a few hundred already killed in action and one thousand injured. So that's 10% of the entire NK force that's helping Russia in just a few days. 

The North Koreans can't deal in any shape or form with those FPV killer drones, but if you would let loose one of those on me I likely couldn't deal with it either. They are horrible weapons and in the future when they get more and more AI into them they will only get more horrible.  

The Ukrainians are always willing to do some intercultural exchanges because the NK soldiers likely don't know what Christmas is. So they attached Christmas ornaments to their attack drones, I am pretty sure the North Koreans were happy to get a few intercultural exchanges.
Forbes had a bit more on this small but funny detail, click on the picture:  

Article title: Drones Wearing Christmas Ornaments Helped Kill Or Wound 200 North Korean Troops in Kursk.
Link used: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/12/18/drones-
wearing-christmas-ornaments-helped-kill-or-wound-200-
north-korean-troops-in-kursk/

According to the Putin Russia is now better as before the war so we see once more that stuff like economical sanctions are in fact very good for Russia. The Kremlin should write a letter of thank you to the EU.
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In a very different and surprising move it was revealed that Ukraine has a laser weapon. The UK is also working on their version of a laser weapon but that one is supposed to be ready for rollout in 2027. So how the Ukrainians did this so fast is unknown to me.

But a lot of the stuff for a laser weapon is stuff you can simply buy and of course in Ukraine the weapon development simply goes much much faster. Now such energy weapons are not a wunderwaffe, atmospheric conditions play a huge role into the efficiency of such a laser beam. Moisture, rain and fog are all big obstacles in transferring enough energy to the target. But for slow moving drones these are the ideal targets because it takes some time to transfer the energy and make the drone cook over.  

It's an interesting development, of course another big pluspoint is that a laser weapon once made is cheap to operate. And we the Dutch due to our genetic constellation are always fond of cheap things. If the Ukrainians find something out that kills Russian soldiers for say 50 cents a dead soldier, of course we will think about how to get the costs down to say 45 cents or better 35 cents. And 35 cents per Russian soldier is still 35 cents above the valuation of the average cannon fodder soldier as valued by the Kremlin.

I don't know if this is the actual weapon but it looks awesome:

Article title: Ukraine Claims Its New Laser Weapon Can Shoot Down Targets Over 2 Km Away.
Link used: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-claims-its-new-
laser-weapon-can-shoot-down-targets-over-2-km-away-7283295

If this information is all more or less correct I would like to compliment the Ukrainian weapon developers with this amazing result. Of course likely there is no mass production right now but often the Ukrainians don't let grow much grass over it.
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There were also more oil refineries and chemical plants under attack so it is hard to understand why Putin says that Russia is better off now. But that is his mental thing and luckily not mine. Yet with the new US administration coming in in Jan it could be hard times are coming for the UA. Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Just some blah blah talk & new SG-experiment video.

I could not find that video fragment back where Sabine Hossenfelder is talking to someone else and all of a sudden they talk about the fact that if you leave academia you won't get anything published. That reminded me of the 1990-ties where I tried to get my first publication out but it all got refused and I soon stopped trying to get through.
That experience was one of the reasons in 2012 I decided not to do a promotion at the local university upon the subject of higher dimensional complex numbers. Of course a more important reason was that I wanted to score some results but if that had to be done under the supervision of university professors, it would be almost impossible to get good results. After all the universities have a 150 year long track record of being to stupid to find only say the 3D complex numbers. Universities are much more social constructs and not science producing institutions.  

But now Sabine claims that this happens to almost everyone that leaves a university? Well I wasn't planning on writing some article on electron spin and get that published anyway. But now I know it is 100% useless to even try it; just because I don't work at a university it won't get nowhere anyway. So that's good to know. And say for yourself, physics professors and telling them that electrons are magnetic monopoles is the same as telling math professors about 3D complex numbers. They just don't react, period.
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That brings us to the latest found video on the Stern Gerlach experiment from the year 1922. It is very interesting because the guy from the Science Asylum as his video channel is named does actually try to explain as why electrons will anti-align their tiny magnetic field with applied outside magnetic fields; he claims it is because of the intrinsic angular momentum the electrons have. This is the first time in 9 years that I see somebody actually trying to explain this crazy fact.
But it does not solve the many energy problems there are if you keep on believing that electrons are tiny bipolar magnets. Here too is it unclear where the energy comes from to get to that high (potential) energy level known as anti-alignment.
Unless you believe in even weirder quantum stuff like the alignment is instantly and into the direction of the magnetic field lines and it is random in nature. So it aligns or it anti-aligns instantly and randomly.
That's bullshit too, if I hold a magnet against your body it is no that 50% of the binding electron pairs turn into non-binding electron pairs. There is zero experimental evidence for these weird statements.

Electron magnetism is just like electron electric charge: permanent and monopole in nature. You can't flip it, if in an experiment it looks like the spin is flipped that likely means it is just replaced by another electron.

At 3.25 minutes into the video the Asylum guy claims that in a constant magnetic field, or as the physics people say: a homogenous magnetic field what means it has spatial constancy, the electrons can't get accelerated.

That looks very logical: If an electron is indeed a tiny magnet, in a constant magnetic field all induced forces will cancel out and indeed there will be no acceleration.

There is just only little tiny problem: Where is your fucking experimental proof that validates this? Such an experiment would also contribute to the idea that electrons are tiny magnets but where is you fucking experiment that validates what you say is correct?

Click on the image if you want to see the video, I actually recommend it because he is also a funny guy and he is the very first person I see that tries to explain this anti alignment stuff. So in that detail he is better as say 99.95% of all those physics professionals out there that are far better at talking out of their necks...  

Video title: Physics Misunderstood This Experiment For Years.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRI1fCOQ0GA

Even the video title is funny because it should read as Physics Misunderstood This Experiment For 102 Years And Counting.

I think I take this video to write a new post on magnetism for the other website. And no, in my life I will never write an article on electron magnetism for an 'official publication'. After all I am not crazy, it won't get accepted anyway. Ok, it is about time to split and let me try to upload all this word garbage to the internet. Thanks for your attention. 

(18 Dec 2024) The items for this update: 

Item 1) More Russian shit & more on their inflation.
Item 2) New math post finished & published.

 Item 1) More Russian shit & more on their inflation.

1) Well yes, 2 old Russian oil tankers sunk & damaged in the Black sea. More proof that the Russian shadow fleet and dark fleet are a serious environment danger is not needed. Those shitty ships were over 50 years old and suppose one of the breaks down in the North sea, will the Russians pay for the damage? Of course not, after all they are natural born parasites and parasites never pay for what they take. 

2) Then there was a giant ammo dump under successful attack from Ukraine, it was said a few times that from a distance of one hundred kilometer you could see the ammo going off. That is remarkable because from 100 km away you are rather deep under the horizon. I hope the link from Euromaidan press works properly: 

Ukraine’s Security Service destroys Russian ammo depot with drones in Donetsk Oblast. Link used: https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/12/16
/ukraines-security-service-destroys-russian-ammo-depot-with-
drones-in-donetsk-oblast/

3) A top Russian general was killed via the method of a remote controlled bomb. Some folks say this was a terrorist attack and yes you could say that. But there were no civilians killed or wounded so from that point of view I myself would not classify this as a terror attack.
The Russian general was responsible for a lot of chemical attacks inside Ukraine. Not with the most poisonous gasses out there, a heavy form of tear gas. But it's forbidden anyway so that too goes as a long list of war crimes. So terror attack or not, it is good this piece of shit is dead.
Furthermore it seems that before the war he floated idea's at the biolabs in Ukraine and genetically modified mosquito's that the USA wanted to release inside Russia.
So we can safely conclude that the crazy stuff inside Russia is at least of the same order of magnitude as say what the Americans thought of Saddam Houssein's so called weapons of mass destruction. That was crazy hysterical too and a giant failure of the US intel services.    

4) And inflation; it keeps on being high and that is of course caused by all that war spending. Likely at the Kremlin themselves they don't understand why there is so much inflation. Like the testosterone riddled macho's they are they slam their fists on the table and craft more war spending in order to show who's boss. And in the meantime have no clue what they are actually doing.

It has to be remarked that it is rather hard to get a good statistic on Russian inflation. Take for example the mortgage rates, it is now standing at about 28% so nobody takes a loan for a house at such rates. So does that count as inflation? And of course there are people who have fixed rates and people who have adjustable rates. So the official figure of 9% inflation can be taken with a grain of salt, I am not saying they are cheating but the statistical landscape has changed so fast it is hard to get good statistics. Click on the picture for a video from the Candian CBC:  

Video title: Is Russia's war economy on the brink of collapse?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmn-aN4UJpg

I once saw a video about a retired Russian female who lived on 135 US$ of rubles a month. She had worked 30 years as a nurse. Yes after 30 years of labor she has the 'right' to 135 US$ of value in pension. What a fucking shit economy... 

And I forgot to save a link but it seems that in 1990 one dollar was about 0.9 Russian ruble. Now it's above 100 rubles for one dollar or one euro. The Russians must surely love their leadership in a deep way otherwise they would have been beheaded a long long time ago. But likely the average Russian citizen is unaware of how fucking stupid they are at the Kremlin.
Lets go to the next item because it starts to smell like Russian shit in my room and I don't like that.  

 Item 2) New math post finished & published.

All in all I am satisfied with the latest post. Ok it contained a stupid typo and I hate that but it's now repaired. Now the last years I try to write math posts that are as simple as possible but what does that mean?

Well it does not mean it is blazingly stupid like all those Kremlin shitholes. I could make it really utterly simple by just adding two 3D complex numbers. No that's not the goal, it still must have some form of a math bone in it.

This post is about integrating the identity function and although that sounds utterly simple, the real lesson is of course that you must do complex integration in three dimensions. And that is very different from what we learn our students when it comes to integration in a real 3D vector space.   

Today I found it amazing that ordinary math  professors just never do such things, on their own they just can't do complex integration behind their complex plane. That's weird but likely they don't care and yes the monthly salary will come in any way. What is also a bit strange in my country is that say in the last quarter of a century, say the last 25 years, I can't remember just one math result that made it to the media. You never ever hear about them, they have formed those large research groups because that spits out much more publications and as such all members of such groups have a longer publication list. But you never hear of any interesting result.

A long time ago it occurred to scientists that publications with good scientific content get more citations and get more frequently quoted. So they turned the stuff around and now you must get as many citations and quotes as possible. But does that produce more or better science? No of course not, you only get the scientific version of click bait titles. Or making stuff sound much more spectacular as it actually is, it just doesn't work. In sciences like psychology a huge part of the publications are results that are not reproducible, it's just click bait nonsense and has not much to do with science or the stuff known as 'scientific progress'. It's just an attention seeking contest.

Let me do the same: Click on the nice looking AI generated females in order to land at the other website with the new post. The females are all fake AI bitches, these are not real humans you can talk to or so.     

Title of the new post: Keep it simple: Take the line integral of the identity in two complex spaces. Link used: 
https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2024/12/17/keep-it-simple-
take-the-line-integral-of-the-identity-in-two-complex-spaces/

That was it for this update, thanks for reading till the end and see you in some future update.  

(13 Dec 2024) And these are the two items for this Friday the 13-th:

Item 1) Mothership drones & a video from Operator Starsky.
Item 2) Last typo's removed, here is the 3D version of XdX.

  Item 1) Mothership drones & a video from Operator Starsky.

A few weeks back I already wanted to show this kind of stuff to you, it is not science fiction but they are there: mothership drones. In the article you see a land drone with 2 extra FPV drones, plans are for 6 per mothership. And I already did observe one sea drone that was also a mothership for FPV attack drones.

The latest is very interesting for my own country now there are plans and money to build a few new navy ships. One of the many future threats are of course sea drones and the new ships must have all kinds of systems to deal with stuff like that. May be in the future there will be even motherships that are submarines, how do you deal with that? I have no clue, this is a wide range of anti drone tech. Stuff like exploding bullets, Rheinmetall is working on stuff like that. Likely it will all be relatively high tech ai supported stuff to defend our precious navy ships. 

The Interesting Engineering dot com had a small article on the subject, click on the picture if you want to read it. 

Article title: Ukraine turns spy drone into UAV mothership for launching kamikaze attacks. Link used: https://interestingengineering.com/military/
ukraine-forces-t10-drone-mothership-adaptation
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It has been some time since I last linked to a video from good ol Operator Starsky. He gives an oversight about the latest attacks between Russia and Ukraine. Here is the link & video title:

Tough Night for the russian terrorists | UK Tested Laser Weapon | Orban Becomes a "Peacemaker"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNkSesDvvIg 

A lot more did happen, the EU launced the 15-th packet of economical sanctions but I did not have the time to read it. But it seems to contains measures against the Russian shadow fleet so that's a good thing. Those old pieces of scrap metal are not the ideal mechanics to transport oil, anyway that's my opinion. Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Last typo's removed, here is the 3D version of XdX.

In the previous update I showed you that steampunk image but there were only two parts in it. There was a typo, I had forgotten a + sign and that looked just awful, but now it's repaired.
I wanted to look for more of those steampunk females but instead on some website for free wallpapers I came across a picture that is used in one of my music video's. No idea how old it is but very likely this is art made by some real human. On top of that I like the picture only below you only see a part of it. 

I am more or less ready with the new math post but it still has to be turned into a bunch of images because that's the way I work. Originally I had trouble to incorporate images in my Latex math texts so I decided to turn it around and make images from the Latex math texts.

Hopefully this post is as easy as possible while it still has a bit of math meat on the bones. All I do is integrating the identity function on the space of real numbers, on the complex plane and on the space of 3D complex numbers.

How difficult is it? Well if you had math in high school may be you remember the product rule for differentiating the product of two functions. Basically that said p(x) = f(x)*g(x), in that case the product rule for differentiation says: p'(x) = f'(x)*g(x) + f(x)*g'(x).

Or shorthand: p' = f'g + fg'. Now in the middle of the picture you see
xy' + yx', and if you integrate that you get the product xy.    

So it's all as basic as possible and that's a good thing. If you now integrate XdX you nicely get 0.5X^2. So there is no need to go around with an axe and decapitate random people, no relax man: It's 0.5X^2 so calm down please...  

May be it is time to upload this to the internet so may I thank you as always for your attention. 

(11 Dec 2024) Two items for this update:

Item 1) Crazy Syrian stuff & UA: Is it a loan or a gift?
Item 2) A 3D integration detail in a steampunk setting.

 Item 1) Crazy Syrian stuff & UA: Is it a loan or a gift?

With the present development inside Syria the horrors of the Assad regime came out in the open. And don't forget, stuff like this has gone on for decades. So if you haven't seen the gory details of Syrian prisons, if you click on the picture you get a video from Times Radio: 

Video title: 'Horrors' of Assad’s prisons revealed as thousands of disappeared Syrians emerge. Link used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9vXjttAEQI

Local air powers seem to do a lot of bombing. Israelis bombing possible storage places of chemical weapons. The US bombing the diverse jihadi groups, the Turks likely bombing the shit out of the Kurds. So there is plenty of the stuff that makes humans such a wonderful species...

Even in my home city there were celebration of local Syrians, well I wish them a better future but likely that is easier said then done.
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I didn't have much time to follow the Ukrainian news but I came across two conflicting news headlines:

US loans Ukraine $20B from seized Russian assets
https://thehill.com/business/5033255-ukraine-loan-russian-assets/

US gives $20bn to Ukraine funded by seized Russian assets
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c047zrzr2xro

So is it a loan? Or is it a gift? Or did the US give a loan, because this is also a possibility. May be we should go to the next item.

 Item 2) A 3D integration detail in a steampunk setting.

I am almost finished with a new math post on 3D complex numbers. The last years I always try to find subjects that are as simple as possible and avoid the more complicated stuff.
So this time I am integrating the identity function on the well known complex plane and in the space of 3D complex numbers. Of course I have done such calculations many times over the years but never in this rather explicit way of trying to find the primitive.  

And it was very satisfying, even the more simple stuff on the complex plane was really not a punishment to write down. Now the post isn't finished so there is nothing to link to right now but in the picture below you see some x, y and z variables. You should read that as just functions of time so x(t), y(t) and so on. And the stuff with the accents, like x' is just the derivative as you likely have learned in high school. So x' = x'(t). 

For the background I used a few screenshots of those AI video's that Youtube is lately bombarding we with. Now my dear Youtube I have to remark all those bitches look very beautiful but it's all fake as hell. So that's a bit of AI steampunk; mostly perfect looking female figures. 

As you see it is very easy to find the primitive and above you only see the real part and the first imaginary part. (3D complex numbers have two imaginary parts.) And they nicely form the real and first imaginary part of the complex number or function 0.5X^2.
So it's just like integrating along the real line, what more do you want?  

Lets try to upload this, as always thanks for your attention. 

(06 Dec 2024) A relatively short update for this day:

Item 1) Is Russia's weapon industry imploding slowly?
Item 2) Calculations say: Trump likely financially prudent? Yep!

 Item 1) Is Russia's weapon industry imploding slowly?

I hadn't seen any video from Heinrich in a long time, he runs the video channel Military & History. But today one of his vids popped up, as mostly an oversight of the situation in Ukraine, and at the end was an interesting detail. India wants to shift away from Russia as a weapon supplier and wants more US made stuff.

And India has bought a lot of stuff from Russia in the past, but as all other nations they see now how it actually performs more and more doubts are sinking in of course. The Indian stuff is about 15 minutes into the video. 

Video title: Russia's Manpower Problems Increase; Its Defense Industry is in Trouble! Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzeOydh-3g8

As Heinrich already explains it is easy to see why the loss of such a large consumer like India is a long term set back for the Russian weapon industry. Development costs of new weapon systems are always huge so you must spread them out over many produced items, say a new type of tank. It's all just a detail but I found this interesting. 

A lot more did happen but we have to skip that all and go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Calculations say: Trump likely financially prudent? Yep!

Yes economists shout the new plans from the incoming US administration will be horrific for the Federal debt levels because they could climb by an extra 7 trillion US$ over the new 4 year term of now president elect Donald Trump.

So lets take a look at historical debt grow of the Federal debt: 

Back in 1981 that debt stood at 997 billion US$, say it's the first trillion.
In 2023 it stood at 33 trillion, so 33 times as much after a timespan of 42 years.

If we take the 42-th root of 33 we get: 33^(1/42) = 1.087. 
A yearly growth factor of 1.087 means an additional 8.7% per year.
So that's the historical growth: 8.7% a year. 

Suppose that Donald Trump is just like the average ordinary US president from the past and he too lets it grow about 8.7% a year.

How much will US debt be over 4 years? Well we extend the 33 trillion simply another four years via:

33*1.087^4 = 33*1.396 = 46. 

The four year growth factor gives an additional 39.6 or 40% of the present debt pile of 33 trillion US$. That means if in the next four years the debt grows by a fresh 13 trillion, that is just the historical average...

If you click on the picture you will land at the FiscalData on historical debt website from the US government: 

Title: Historical Debt Outstanding.
Link used: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/historical-debt-
outstanding/historical-debt-outstanding

In itself is it an interesting observation: On average 8.7% growth a year over the last 42 years. I will be the first to notice that the above analysis is a bit shallow, you could with a lot more work also look at the situation without inflation. With that I mean: What is the value of 33 trillion in 2023 US$ be in dollars from the year 1981? You should also include a bit more on the reasons as why it always grows and never shrinks but that contains all kinds of social and political stuff and is not a simple calculation. 

Let me leave it with that and as always thanks for your attention and may be till next week. 

(04 Dec 2024) Well my stomach flu is over and I can eat again so what more do I want? Let me spare you all the gory details but yesterday I realized that it likely is far over 15 years ago that I vomited for the last time... So I considered this an interesting detail of my own life and it's an interesting topic to bring up if you talk for the first time to some stranger don't you think? But I'm feeling ok again so lets go to the two items for this update:

Item 1) New UA envoy is Keith Kellog & all those peace plan stuff.
Item 2) The mystery of coronal heating is still a mystery after 80 years.

 Item 1) New UA envoy is Keith Kellog & all those peace plan stuff.

The new US envoy to Ukraine is Keith Kellogg, to be precise: Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Keith Kellogg, and every body says he's a good guy for this job. And yes I to thinks he has good credentials, anyway they are a lot better as mine...;)

Ok now there are all kinds of peace plans going round and I would like to refrain from any comment on this beside a small point as also made by Mark Rutte. We can't have the Kremlin "high fiving" with such plans, that's not good for the future of this little planet.   

If you just like me have never heard of Keith Kellogg, he also served in the previous Trump administration. Kyiv Post on Keith: 

ANALYSIS: How Trump’s Ukraine Envoy Could Reshape US-Ukraine Relations. Link used: https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/43236

And the Kyiv Independent came out with the remarks of the secretary general of NATO: 

Rutte tells Trump 'bad peace' in Ukraine could embolden US rivals
Link used: https://kyivindependent.com/trump-rutte-peace-in-ukraine/

Lets go to the next item:

 Item 2) The mystery of coronal heating is still a mystery after 80 years.

For me this was a rather annoying video to see. It is about the heat of the solar corona, that's the atmosphere of the sun. The surface of the sun is about 6000 Kelvin while the corona is about one million degrees. 

Likely you just like me have seen some video's of the sun because they are beautiful to see. A very interesting feature is of course that you see all that plasma coming out and falling back again. Now can that be done by electric fields?
No of course not, there are both electrons and protons in the plasma and they get accelerated in opposite direction under application of electric fields. So electricity can't explain this acceleration of plasma.

The video says it was discovered in the 1940-ties that the solar atmosphere was a lot hotter as the surface. Since then they have made little to no progress in understanding how this all works. 

I mean you see before your very eyes the plasma accelerating and in 80 years of time nobody does any experiment to try to get to the bottom of this?

Now if you just like me think that it is much more logical to view particles like electrons and protons as having a net magnetic charge, in practice that means they are magnetic monopoles just like they carry electric charge, the plasma behavior looks a lot more logical.

Why are these people just so fucking stupid when it comes to electron spin? Viewing electrons as tiny bipolar magnets, in this case, prevents you from understanding how at least a significant part of the energy transfer is done: via forces and acceleration of the individual particles.    

And nobody does any meaningful experiment at all, anyway I am not aware of it. The video is a short video and it is already a couple of years old once more showing there is zero progress in understanding electron spin year in year out. The video is a production of ScienceAtNASA and of course they have to tell the official accepted version of this corona temperature but it is so fucking in your face: The plasma gets accelerated!

As always click on the video if you want to see it:

Video title: ScienceCasts: The Mystery of Coronal Heating
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkUqX1TkiZo

At last I want to remark that experimental physics folks are weird and lazy of doing nothing while it is also true that such experiments are relatively hard to do. For example in a fusion reactor you can't see most of the plasma all of the time.
That was it for this update, as always thanks for your attention.

(29 Nov 2024) The two items for today's update:

Item 1) More adventures of the Russian Ruble.
Item 2) Two video's on tomography. 

 Item 1) More adventures of the Russian Ruble.

Well that was going fast, from yesterday or better: from 27 Nov I made the screenshot with the 113 Ruble against the dollar. I can't remember to have ever seen a daily change of 7.25% in a currency. A lot of people say one of the main root causes must be the fresh financial sanctions against Gazprom Bank. If true that is an amazing detail and indeed my compliments to the Americans.

It has it's own logic; there were a few European nations left using gas from Russia but the pipelines go via Ukraine. Ukraine does not want to go on with those gas transport contracts in 2025 and as such a few extra financial sanction are always a good idea.

So in case you haven't seen or read a thing about this cute movements of the Ruble, I have selected two video's for you. 

TLDR video: Why is the Ruble Crashing?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyFCSGLUUss

It seems to have fallen further to 115 and today recovered a bit to 110. The second video is from Joe Blogs and he informs us that the Russian central bank withdraws from the currency markets till year's end? Ok, likely that means they can't do a thing...

As always click on the picture to see the video: 

Video title: RUSSIA Cancels Ruble.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIMuaJejZVY

The interesting thing is of course this all happened while the official interest rate of the Russian central bank is still a staggering 21%. I once remarked that this rate could go to something like 26% and that scenario looks a bit more plausible now.  

So we'll have to wait and see the next move of the Russian Bank. Let me close with a bit more funny news and skip all that other news like the average Russian contract soldiers has an expectancy of just one month... Well here's a Reuters report:

Ukraine flag appears on big screen during Putin visit to Kazakhstan
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-flag-appears-
big-screen-during-putin-visit-kazakhstan-2024-11-28/

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Two video's on tomography. 

Tomography is a beautiful piece of applied math. Of course you also need the engineering of such medical devices but without the math the whole thing would not work. 

I remember that somewhere in the beginning of the nineties I went to a lecture about tomography. At the time stuff like that was still in development or just more or less developed enough for actual applications. It was about an interesting math problem: How do you construct how a original object looks when you have a bunch of shadows or if you want: a bunch of projections?
At the end of the lecture I had a short question that I did not understood: Are all shapes reconstructible or are there things this method misses?

Now the guy that gave the lecture totally misunderstood my problem or the question and answered with something not very helpful. But in the back sat a few other folks I had never seen so likely from other universities and later I found out they perfectly understood what I tried to ask.
It was answered in the next issue of a math magazine issued by the Dutch Math Society. So that was all very interesting although I have no vivid memory of all the math details involved, it's now 30 years back you know...   

So that was more or less normal behavior from people that have salaries coming from tax payer money. It might be expensive and not very efficient but I don't think there is a thing as 'efficient science'...

Anyway the math is a bit to hardcore for a website like this, but the idea's on how this all works is relatively easy to understand. It's a bunch of projections and how to reconstruct an image of the original? 

These are two projections as used in the first video: 

Video title: Looking through Objects - How Tomography Works!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0sxjhGHRPo

The next video is from a guy that actually works with this kind of stuff. So that's the kind of scientist I like, anyway it is lightyears better as all that talk of 10 to the power 500 universes or the many worlds hypothesis from quantum mechanics. There is just so much "Talk out of your neck physics" going on and looking at a  person that actually works the equipment is a pleasant thing.

Video title: What is tomography?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn358iX_WxQ&t=270s

Beside old memories floating to the surface of my conscience, a reason for me to post these two videos is the sharp contrast there is in time. Over thirty years back I asked a question about reconstuctability and that actually gets an answer. And in the present time when I write one 100 reasons as why electrons can't be magnetic dipoles, not much happens. Now science is science, they are not my slaves or so.
But it's all tax payer money going to waste and the physics people should back up their claims on the magnetic nature of particles like electrons.

There is no fucking proof that electrons are tiny magnets. Where is the proof? Show me the money is what they say in movie terms, show me the fucking money!    

May be it is time to upload this all and open a bottle of beer. Thanks for your attention and lets hope you don't need that Radon transformation too much in your next visit to your hospital. 

(27 Nov 2024) That is sobering news for our young: The average price of a family home is now 500 thousand Euro... It's crazy yet the government keeps on subsidizing home ownership. But it's late and I don't have much time so lets go to the two items of today:

Item 1) Two vids from Suchominus & Anders Puck on the ATACMS stuff.
Item 2) At CERN they keep on trying finding magnetic monopoles...

 Item 1) Two vids from Suchominus & Anders Puck on the ATACMS stuff.

For the time being the ATACMS keep on flying towards the Kursk region of Russia where also the North Koreans operate. Last week it was a bit strange to see the Kremlin react so harsh. Do those people really believe they can escalate via all that NK stuff with even tech transfer to NK and not get any response?
Now a point I heard a few times from the Kremlin is that the ATCMS need NATO staff to fire them. For myself I don't think that is true, these systems are often designed such that skilled low ranking military can operate them. But with something more complex like a Patriot air defense system it is reasonable to expect there is also some specialist input. That might be clandestine but all armies do stuff like that included the Russians themselves.

Suchominus had a short video on a S-400 system taken out, in the picture below you see one of the launchers a tiny bit damaged. Click on the picture to see the short video, it was said that 3 ATACMS were used. 

Video title: S-400 Radar and Two Launchers Destroyed by ATACMS in Kursk (Not the Airport Strike).
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxlcfwlv6hI

Now there is indeed some confusion going on if the ATACMS and/or Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles are long range weapons. It is just what you compare them with, compared to say the HIMARS sixpacks with a range of less then 100 km they are long range. And compared to a lot of other missile systems they are short range. It is just like asking if a dog is a large or a small animal.

The next video is from Anders Puck Nielsen and I agree with what he has to say on the subject. Anders points out that Russia herself is using missiles with much much longer ranges as ATACMS will ever have. So yes all in all it looks like the Kremlin is a bit hysterical over the entire situation.  

I didn't save a picture although Anders is a very handsome guy don't yuu think? But serious his analysis is right on spot: 

Video title: What is a long-range missile? – The hysteria about ATACMS and Storm Shadow. Link used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUfm6AbtJ0g 

A lot more did happen, Russia fired a massive 188 drones into Ukraine. For the time being that is a record number. But again it's late so lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) At CERN they keep on trying finding magnetic monopoles...

I wasted a lot of time trying to find out if it was known that the cosmic jets have circular polarization in their photon emissions. But I could find nothing of any significance, some folks measured all kinds of stuff about polarization but that was always linear polarization.

More time was wasted by looking at a long video from some astro physicist telling that they don't have a clue where those large galactic magnetic fields come from. But the video was far to technical to show to you and they did not investigate the things that likely matter a lot: cosmic jets. The researchers only looked at the density of the interstellar medium in order to try and explain the giant yet weak magnetic fields that are so very huge in size. 

And then, out of boredom, I clicked on a link to a CERN page about magnetic monopoles. And guess what? They never gave up on their ways of finding a magnetic monopole! The failure of the MODEAL experiment wasn't enough so they keep on doing their weird ways of finding a so called Dirac magnetic monopole. 

No matter how many billion € you pour into the CERN institution, they will never ever figure out that electrons are magnetic monopoles beside their electric monopole charge. The CERN employees, the physics researchers, are too fucking stupid to see all the energy problems that are with the version of electron spin as tiny bipolar magnets.

It never ends, you must realize that an institution like CERN with it splendid funding is also very elite. It is so elite that as a matter of fact they will never listen to possible problems of their holy and also very elite standard model of particle physics. 

They always claim they are a so called "Five sigma science" but where is their fucking five sigma proof that electrons are tiny magnets? That in only in the heads of the superb elite of high IQ people that work as physics researchers at CERN.

I use a picture from CERN herself that shows that they think this magnetic monopole has no other charges. So it is not like an electron or so, like I think. For example if electrons are magnetic monopoles it now becomes logical to the human mind as why they only form electron pairs if a positively charged environment like in molecular bonds. But try to explain that to the CERN weirdo's...

Click on the picture to land at the CERN page on their new experiments in finding the Paul Dirac version of the magnetic monopole: 

CERN page: MoEDAL zeroes in on magnetic monopoles
Link used: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/physics/moedal-zeroes-
magnetic-monopoles

May be I saved the wrong link, in that case you must look around a little bit and find a few CERN pages of this year 2024 about magnetic monopoles.

That was all I had for you in this update, thanks for you attention and let me upload this update to this website. 

(22 Nov 2024) Only one item for today's update:

Item 1) An ICBM in Dnipro? & US$/Ruble finally above one 100. 

 Item 1) An ICBM in Dnipro? & US$/Ruble finally above one 100. 

Yesterday the US embassy and the embassies from a few other nations all of a sudden closed. So that gave me some food for thought and today an interesting monkey came out of the hypothetical sleeve, quote: 

A U.S. official said that Washington was pre-notified by Russia shortly before its strike, while another said they had briefed Kyiv and other close allies in recent days to prepare for the possible use of such a weapon. 

There seem to be treaties that if the USA or Russia wants to fire and ICBM they must notify the other party beforehand. So it sounds a bit strange that Russia warns the USA but it is better to have diplomatic channels open in cases like this. 

Anyway the Kremlin said it was a new midrange missile and if that is true it was not a real ICBM. Furthermore an ICBM would still have a giant amount of fuel on board because they are designed for extreme long distances. Reuters had a report on it, click on the picture if you want to read it: 

Report title: Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine.
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-launches-
intercontinental-ballistic-missile-attack-ukraine-kyiv-says-2024-11-21/
Dnipro

It was last week that I showed you the value of the Russian ruble against the US$ and the €. At the time the € was already above one 100 ruble while the dollar still noted below that. And yesterday I decided it was time to take a look to see if it was already that far, by sheer luck on that same day just a few hours earlier the 100 threshold was broken on the US$/ruble pair.

You can wonder how significant this is since there is not that many trade anymore in rubles. Even the Russians themselves have to pay with other currencies for trade with other nations. But you can say that Russia can't afford even any more foreign currency on support of their own ruble. And while all of the time this support for the ruble was relatively cheap because the trade in rubles got thinner and thinner.

So it looks like an interesting statistic in that way but of course it says nothing of how much foreign currencies the Russian government has left. May be priorities have shifted because basically who cares if the ruble is more or less as one dollar cent... 

And today it fell a bit further, a few hours ago it stood at about 102. So that was a long wait since Feb 2022 when I was that stupid to brag about a bit about the 130 or so the dollar or euro were reading at the time.  

A whole lot more did happen, it is still a very busy or hot war. In another development the Israeli Netanyahu was wanted by the International Criminal Court here in The Hague. I didn't see that one coming, also the former Israeli minister of defense is accused of war crimes.
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No other update for item 2, I wanted to search a few pictures of magnetic domains but they were all so grainy and vuage. Ok, that comes with the size of magnetic domains and the way you must find a contrast so it would be very strange if you see a crystal clear HD image of magnetic domains.
May be next week, in the meantime let me upload the above to our beloved giant garbage can: the internet. Thanks for your attention.  

(20 Nov 2015) Two items for this update:

Item 1) A bit more long range freedom for Ukraine?
Item 2) New math post on 3D integration and the number alpha.

  Item 1) A bit more long range freedom for Ukraine?

A few days back via the NYT it was leaked or revealed that Ukraine had permission to use the longer range ATACMS on Russian soil. Ok that was good news and I don't know if it's related but the Kremlin updated their nuclear doctrine. So that was all very interesting, it was also interesting that a lot of people thought that now about up to 200 military targets could potentially be attacked.  

Well not so fast, it could be that use is only permissible in the Kursk region and that's it. It's hard to say if that's a hard White House boundary condition because both as far as I know the US and UA government had not commented on the issue.

If you ask me if this could trigger a nuclear response from the Kremlin? Hard to say but some stuff blown up only in the Kursk region is not an existential thing. As such these sound from the Kremlin is more some hissing and not something to be studied long and deep.

Let me quote from Forbes, once more it is unknown what the actual restrictions are, but here they say:

First, the White House reportedly is allowing strikes strictly in and around Kursk Oblast in western Russia, where an approximately 20,000-strong Ukrainian force is defending a 250-square-mile salient against a Russian-led corps with more than 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops.  The target of the Tuesday ATACMS raid, the 67th Main Missile and Artillery Directorate Arsenal, is just west of Kursk.    

If you want to read the Forbes article, click on the picture below: 

Title: For Ukraine, ATACMS Season Might Not Last Long.
Link used: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/11/19/for-
ukraine-atacms-season-might-not-last-long/

So on the one hand it is great there is some first use on Russian soil with this stuff. As such the Russians themselves can also get a bit used to it. On the other hand a lot of targets go unattacked while they are used to stage attacks against Ukraine.

After all there still is the principle that Ukraine has the right to defend itself. One way or the other.
Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) New math post on 3D integration and the number alpha.

In the first line below in the picture you see and easy to understand integral. It's just along the real line and that's why I wrote this with a dx so a small x to indicate just that. 

The alpha in the exponent causes problems finding a primitive because you can't divide by alpha. Now may be it looks a bit strange but that is actually the same integral, the calculation is not that hard you only have to use the fact that alpha is it's own square.

And now the alpha is no longer in the exponent we can find a primitive and as such the final answer is at the bottom. This is one of only two examples in the latest post, the other example is an integration along the line through alpha and zero, the main line of non-invertible 3D numbers. And they are related these two examples, even for me that was a surprise but it is not a very deep result or so. It has it's own logic and as such it is beautiful or at least not an ugly part of math. 

Click on the picture in order to land at the latest post:

Title of the new post: Integration and the number alpha.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2024/11/18/
integration-and-the-number-alpha/

As a background in the above picture I wanted to use one of those "futuristic city's" pictures but I stumbled on this old rusty but still sexy robot again. Why are robots femalized? May be deep inside the GPU's and CPU's of this robot she does not want big & rusty tits. I think all that robots want to do is Boolean algebra, what do you think on that existential problem of malekind?
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Before we split I want to show you a picture of magnetic domains as found in the internet domain. Now if my idea's of electrons being magnetic monopoles, in that case it look reasonable to suspect that magnetic domains in a metal like iron is a surplus of either the north pole magnetic electron or it's south pole magnetic charge cousin.

That's an old result from the year 2018 or so, or may be it was 2017 anyway the exact date is totally unimportant. Important is that if my version of magnetic domains is the one that is found in nature, in that case adjacent magnetic domain have opposite total electron spin and are separated by a magnetic domain.

Experimental evidence shows that you can't transport the magnetic domains with magnetic fields. Of course you can change the content of magnetic domains with a magnetic field and that will change the domain wall but it seems that the walls themselves are not magnetic.

So no to same domains can touch without a domain wall between them. Well look at the picture below, what do you see? 

Be careful: It's the light and darker parts that define the two different kinds of domains. So not those flake like structures from the neodymium magnet material. And also don't forget these magnetic domains are of course three dimensional. 

That was it for this first update of this new week where we had a tiny bit of first snow today. As always thanks for your attention. 

(15 Nov 2024) Last week while I was typing the text for the update on 08 Nov there were those riots in Amsterdam. And all of a sudden my country's capital became news all over the world. And I hadn't seen a thing of it and to this day I only saw a video of Iraelis tearing down Palestine flags from houses and marching while chanting and singing anti Palestine slurs.

Even Joe Biden came out on a football match in Amsterdam and our king said that we the Dutch failed the Jews in World War II and that we failed them yesterday.

Now I am not an expert in football hooliganism but you can safely say that those Israelis were not ordinary football fans but more hardcore hooligans.

An interesting detail is that one week ago the Amsterdam police could not deal with it because a lot of the attacks were fast hit and run attacks. So it was not they could charge a bunch of people, they could not do much. May that explains they feel a bit frustrated and want to show who's boss around here because until today the situation is far from calm (article is in Dutch):

Demonstranten na politiegeweld: 'Ze sloegen me op hoofd, armen en benen' Link used: https://nos.nl/artikel/2544516-demonstranten-na-politiegeweld-
ze-sloegen-me-op-hoofd-armen-en-benen     

Those Israeli hooligans like to sing songs about raping Arab bitches. If for example their team plays against some Arab nation they want the bitches to come along so they can get raped. It's just some hooligans having a party I guess...

Well I found a video that is very biased, it is one hundred % pro Palestine and left leaning but all in all it looks fact based and that is more or less the only thing that counts.

At some point in the video below it is asked by hooligan types as why school's out in Gaza. Well that's because there's no more children left.

Again I am not much of an expert in football hooliganism but I think you should not defend people like this, right now there are about 15 thousand children dead and that has not much to do with that so called "Right of Israel to defend itself". 

Anyway enough of this intro talk, the video is about 15 mins long:    

Video title:EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam
Link used:  https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2024/
november/14/exposed-what-really-happened-in-amsterdam

Ok this double down news is left leaning but it look like a far better coverage compared to those right wing foreign who report on hostages taken or whatever weird crap they have to spread... It's Crazyland without the physics professors... After this long intro lets go to the two items for today: 

Item 1) Normal NATO news, weird NATO news...
Item 2) A spin valve (for electron spin).

 Item 1) Normal NATO news, weird NATO news...

Totally normal NATO news: Mark Rutte visits Macron. And they discuss a lot of things of course and it was in this article that was an open door I never talked about.

The open door is op course: The best way of helping Ukraine without restrictions on use of military aid is simply by aiding and financing the Ukrainian weapon industry. It's an open door but I wanted to repeat this elementary insight once more because I had never done that.  

NATO Secretary General and President Macron discuss defence production and Ukraine. Link used: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/
news_230360.htm?selectedLocale=en 

And then there was a meeting on quantum stuff by the NATO specialists??? Yes there was, no idea if it might have something to do with electron spin...;) I had not expected NATO would be into quantum stuff too, but they are.  

For myself speaking every year that passes I become more negative on quantum computers. Lately I even doubt more and more if that Copenhagen interpretation of stuff is actually true, after all sounds just like some opinion: If unmeasured the quantum particles are always in a superposition of quantum states.....
And if that just ain't true, there is not much hope left of quantum computers and as such our present encryption codes will last for a long long time.

Click on the picture for the NATO news article:  

Title: NATO quantum experts gather in Copenhagen for annual conference
Link used: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_230539.htm
?selectedLocale=en

The way I see it is that quatum tech will be mostly things like sensors that can get much much better that is of use for NATO. All that quantum computing is first seen before believing in fairy tales from Copenhagen. 

  Item 2) A spin valve (for electron spin).

In my memory it was very different:

A wire with an insulator around it and then a coil around the insulator. So a magnetic field in the direction of the electrical current. And that was the whole spin valve. But I could not find it back, even the wiki files showed on of those so called giant magneto effect kind of things.

Of course that is also a spin valve because it's resistance is dependent on the spin electrons have. Now it is no secret that I am crazy because I think that electrons are in fact magnetic monopoles and can we look at our spin valve and destroy that idea away from the earth?

So I ask you to weigh two models of electron spin in your head at the same time: The official version of electron spin as tiny magnets & My version where they are magnetic monopoles just like they are electric monopoles.

Again remember the (electrical) resistance is different: 

This is one of the many details as why it is sometimes shitty I can never do much experiments myself: If at the low resistance kind of setup the number of electrons that goes through is always about 50%, that validates my model of electron magnetism a tiny bit more.

I tried dozens and dozens of things, but there was not one that disproved the idea that electron magnetism is just like the electrical properties of the electron: Permanent & monopole. 

If you want to know how I would explain the high resistance state of the spin valve: With two layers of opposite magnetization, the electrons that travel through the layers will always meet one high resistance layer. Of course this a varies with the applied voltage and the thickness of the layers but that is more or less the main thing why it works. 

Those high capacity spinning hard disks use this, now IBM could story much more information on a magnetic hard disk. At the time it was a huge improvement while in my opinion it is important to observe that at IBM they still don't understand the magnetic properties of the electron but they figured that giant magneto resistance thing anyway. 

End of this update, as always thanks for your attention 

(13 Nov 2024) Two items for this day:

Item 1) Gerdes has some weird statistics & the tin foil hat stuff.
Item 2) A simple integral with 3D numbers.

 Item 1) Gerdes has some weird statistics & the tin foil hat stuff.

An awful lot did happen again in the UA equation. For example Starmer & Macron met and they stated they are in favor of Ukraine using longer range weapons inside Russia. Now some wonder since the UK & France have given Ukraine those Scalp\Storm Shadow things, why not allow Ukraine to use those? Well of course this kind of stuff has to be synchronized inside the NATO and the USA is the military commander of NATO, as such the UK and or France can't do that on their own...  

Lets go fast to the two sub items I picked for this; first the crazy statistics that were shown by Mr. Gerdes or Prof Gerdes as he names himself. If I understand this staticstics good, in that case now the marginal number of death Russians is about 10.5 per new occupied square km of land. It seems that in the 20-th century only in the Korean war this death toll per square km was higher.
I don't know how reliable the statistics are but all in all the Gerdes guy is not crazy and always tries to give correct information. Anyway click on the picture if you want to see his video.
At the top and bottom of the picture below you see two new daily records of Russian casualties; these are not deaths but also include wounded and captured and stuff like that.  

Video title: NEW RECORD: ALL TIME HIGH SINGLE DAY RUSSIAN CASUALTIES. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DjjokaeGTc

In a far less serious development it was rumored somebody from Belarus lured some Russian teachers into wearing these beautiful tin foil hats. To the excuse of the Russians it can very well be they don't know what it means to wear such a beautiful tin foil hat.
For a starter it isn't tin foil at all but aluminum foil and in my own culture (Dutch) it never was a thing as far as I know. I only met this tin foil hat via the internet and I have to say I made one myself many years ago. 

They are amazingly warm those alu foil hats, it works a bit like those thin sheets that ambulances have with them to keep people a bit warm. It reflects all infrared radiation and that makes it comfortable. 

It's the flags on the tin foil hats that makes this a beautiful photo. And at my side it triggers philosophical questions about the meaning of life. What is the meaning of my own life and what is the meaning of a tin foil hat with a Russian flag on it? May be we should go to the next item.  

 Item 2) A simple integral with 3D numbers.

I more or less finished the math for the latest post but I must still turn it into a bunch of pictures. So may be this weekend it is finished and can be published.

And this week and last week I got the latest bills for these two websited; together it is now over 700 € a year while back in the year 2015 if memory serves it was about 110 € for those two websites. Or may be it was 110 per website anyway now I know how it feels for an American when he or she needs medical care in a hospital: Your finances will be squeezed one way or the other. But lets not complain, if I wanted it I could always go to a cheaper website provider.

The new post is about integration in the space of 3D numbers and that in itself is often a more or less magical experience. It is very different from saying calculating an integral with just some dt to integrate against. Now you must work with dX where X is a 3D number so it has a real component and two imaginary components:

X = x + yj + zj^2, as such dX = dx + dyj + dzj^2.   

You can compare that to integration in say the complex plane where you must use dz = dx + idy. Anyway in the whole post I give just two examples and in those two examples I use that number alpha again. And even for me after all those years of looking at stuff like this, the result was surprising. You can use that good old Riemann integration in more ways at what looks possible at first. If you have ever done integration with a primitive, loosely said that is Riemann integration.  

So the new post is almost finished, here is a link to the previous post that was a rewrite from old staff dating back to 2015. 

Seven properties of the number alpha. 

And that is the benefit of math: you can always lay things down for a decade or so and then pick it up again. With most things like programming, that's writing code without Chat GPT, often you can't do that.

But my Latex typeset system for math has a so called frozen kernel. That means it's never updated anymore and decade in decade out you can still use those commands just like say in the 1990-ties or even earlier. The benefit is you only have to learn it once and if you just write a one or two math texts a year you won't loose that knowledge.

The clock says it's about time for a home brew beer so let me try to get this new update on the internet. As always thanks for attention 

(08 Nov 2024) Today's two items:

Item 1) Two political earthquakes at once.
Item 2) WTF is Magnetic Circular Dichronism?

 Item 1) Two political earthquakes at once.

In the USA the prez elections were won by Donald Trump and that by a fair margin. It was definitely not the close call as was so heard so often in the media files. Why does political polling in the USA stay so bad?

And on top of the US elections in Germany this evening the so called traffic light coalition fell apart. I don't know the fine details but the finance minister was sacked by Olaf Scholz and it was about that Schuldenbremse stuff? Well yes that is a big problem for Germany: They need a lot of investments but there is no money for that. So some want to borrow more. 

But not all of Germany's problems are a simple lack of money. Take just high speed internet; I have it for decades now and it costs me about 70 € a month, so that is about 800 € a year or 8000 € per decade per customer. I don't know why in detail it is so hard to get fast internet into your house but likely a lot has to do with too much burocracy. It's a good product but in Germany it's hard to get or so it seems.

Given all the changes in the political landscape, likely in Germany they will hold elections too, it is of little use to make all kinds of speculations. But good old Anders Niels Puck did give it a try so that's my one and only video for this item for today: 

Video title: What will Trump's victory mean for Ukraine?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwjmKMmkV4

In the meantime the first clashes between the North Koreans and the Ukrainian fighters seem to have taken place. I vaguely heard a NK soldier complaining that his dear leader was lied again by Putin. Oh oh, those poor guys, they can't help it they are in this but they have to die mostly anyway.  

There is too much to wrap my head around so let me stop talking and lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) WTF is Magnetic Circular Dichronism?

Back in Feb 2017 I had figured out that the magnetic domains in say a metal like iron are not tiny magnets but all have a surplus of either north pole charged electrons or the other magnetic kind of electrons.  

So today I just tried to find a video about magnetic domains and circular polarized light. And see if the usage of circular polarized light brings a contrast to the magnetic domains in order to make them visible like in a Kerr microscope.

And bam, the second video was perfect. It is a bit long at say 65 minutes or so but it contains a lot of interesting stuff to see. Of course this is a video with only standard knowledge, so they all think that in magnetic domains all spins are aligned and that as such not only the unpaired electrons but also the magnetic domains are tiny magnets. 

Now of course if you are a die hard believer of the standard model version of magnetism, in particular of course the Gauss law for magnetism, may be you won't find the picture below as very convincing.

But I think that if electrons are permanent magnetic monopoles, in that case the two electron kinds produce different photons. And this is very likely the two circular photons there are: left and right turning.  

Anyway today was just another day to trying to destroy my original finding from 2015: Electrons are magnetic monopoles.
And I clearly failed in destroying this idea, just like with all other things I tried in the last 9 years.

The nice swap between the dark and light colored regions in the sample of magnetic domains below cannot serve as some validation that electrons are not magnetic monopoles. Click on the picture for the 65 min long video:   

Video title: Magnetic Circular Dichroism.
Link used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_circular_dichroism

In case you want to know What The Forest is MCD like in the title of this item, I even found a wiki about it. So although it was nine years back since I straddled on this long journey of figuring out the electron magnetism, until this very day in 2024 I had never heard of Magnetic Circular Dichroism.

Now that are very beautiful words, if people ask you what you do you can always say that you study or think about Magnetic Circular Dichroism and likely they will be very impressed.

May be it is time to split and may be pray a bit for a bit of a better future or grab an extra pint of beer or whatever what. As always thanks for your attention. 

(06 Nov 2024) The two items for this update:

Item 1) US elections & Ruble versus the EuroDollar.
Item 2) Looking Glass Universe on electron spin.

 Item 1) US elections & Ruble versus the EuroDollar.

It is now 00.05 hours on 06 Nov so in the USA poll stations are still open. It's a bit weird but here are a lot of news outlets that have special 27/7 coverage on these days, that shows how important people feel that the issue is.
The weird thing about US prez elections is that even if you could predict the outcome of the popular vote, that does not mean that person will be the next US prez. So although I too have some expectation, I will not be that stupid to share it with you.   

Anyway my old 'smart tv' is slowly more and more falling apart or may be I was hallucinating yesterday when I typed in Ruble US$ and it showed me something like 102. I was very surprised but the internet on my tv is rather unreliable so today I took a good look at it and likely this is a better representation of reality: 

So 100 Rubles is now below one € and just above 1 US$ in value although it has to be remarked that stuff like a packet of butter is now more expensive in Russia as in my own country.
I mostly buy a so called biological version of butter that is about 3€ for 250 gram, ordinary butter here is about 50 cents cheaper. For USA folks: what we call 'biological' is what you name organic.  

I am in the camp that thinks the Russian economy should be rather significant in tatters right now. Of course for more tatters the economical sanctions are important and of course the obvious problem is that in case Russia succeeds in evading the sanctions, you almost by definition don't observe that directly.
But there are still a lot of people that think the Russian economy is doing fine. It would be a bad thing if in a few years we will find out those people have been right all along. Just like for example all that biolab in Iraq hysteria was after all not true at all.  

So you can make up your own mind because I found a bit from both sides. And if you just like me have nothing better to do as waiting for the outcome of the US elections, you could read it if you want to. The first one has a very positive tone in it like it is very important that there is no deficit in the Russian budget.

Article title: Russia's Economic Prospects In 2025 And Beyond.
Link used: https://www.memri.org/reports/russias-economic-
prospects-2025-and-beyond  

The next article is from the Atlantic Council and is a much more realistic view on the economical matter at hand in Russia: 

Article title: Russia’s economy is overheating but Putin cannot change course. Link used: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/
russias-economy-is-overheating-but-putin-cannot-change-course/

Likely in two days we will know more about the evolvement in the American equation and as such we can now go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Looking Glass Universe on electron spin.

In the year 2015 I started doubting that electrons were tiny bipolar magnets because I wanted to explain the results of the Stern-Gerlach experiment. In that same year the girl from the Looking Glass Universe youtube channel had a video out on electron spin.  

So without doubt that was one of the dozens yet hundred of video's out there that explain electron spin as the tiny magnet stuff. That made me cautious going forward of course, but over the years it always made more sense if you viewed electrons as having a magnetic charge just like their electric charge. And if on top of that you assume that this monopole magnetic charge is a permanent feature so spin flips just can occur, that is what I think is likely our physical reality.

The girl from the Looking Glass Universe, I don't know her name, has just a new video out explaining how electron spin can flip or change if you measure it. So she hasn't changed in say 9 years of time.

In this video she speaks of so called repeated Stern-Gerlach experiment and as such she must have shown us the results of at least 5 experiments that validate all the claims she makes about the probabilistic nature of these repeated SG experiments. But she only talks about the one and only Stern-Gerlach experiment from the year 1922.

Physics people often brag about physics being a five sigma science, for a new result to get accepted the found discrepancy between experimental outcome and theory should have a significance of at least five sigma. That sound very impressive but as a matter of fact there are all kinds of experiments just missing and they never talk about it.
There is no experiment that says electrons are tiny magnets, there is no this and there is no that.     

The Latex text in the picture below is from me. It says that if you have two magnetic fields behind each other at an angle theta, via the cosine of that that theta angle you can find the probability of measuring one of the two spin states. Needless to say that contradicts one 100% of what I thing with a permanent monopole charge on the electron just like the electrical charge.

The video is well made, goes along all the relevant things from the official theory yet avoids stuff that a lot of people will feel as too hardcore: complex numbers. The video is about 35 minutes long, click on the picture if you want to see it: 

Video title: Spin in Quantum Mechanics (Looking glass universe)
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ljk0xe3ngg

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

(01 Nov 2024) Oh oh those poor people in Valencia in Spain. I never heard of a full year of rain falling in 10 hours, that is a very very extreme weather event. It is crazy, stuff looks like this where cars are toyed around: 

Well I wish the Spanish people a bit of luck in recovering from this disaster... The two items for today: 

 Item 1) Just a video from Anna from Ukraine.
 Item 2) New math post and another just talk out of your neck video.

  Item 1) Just a video from Anna from Ukraine.

I like the video's from Anna from time to time because it reminds me that there is still a lot of stuff happening that is relatively upsetting. But it's hard to stay upset for say 3 years, after some time the crazy stuff becomes the new normal.  

Anyway Anna was enthusiastic about an attack on a Russian artillery base inside the Luhansk region of Ukraine. I didn't find much news on it in other places. Here is Anne her video: 

Video title: HUGE EXPLOSION: UKRAINE STRIKES RUSSIAN ARTILLERY DEPOT IN LUHANSK Vlog 849: War in Ukraine.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dol7BR9oD4s

And a local news source on the same attack: 

Powerful explosions in Luhansk: occupants evacuate local residents
Link used: https://unn.ua/en/news/powerful-explosions-in-
luhansk-occupants-evacuate-local-residents
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In another thing UA prez Zelensky wondered why there was not much of a reaction from the west on the deployment of those North Korean soldiers and other military folks. And yes, I just don't know too...
It is one of those totally crazy things that are hard to get your head around. 

But as those NK troops get transported via sea, why not take entire ships out? Yet as far as I know there is also some railroad connection. As far as I know they are not in Ukraine right now while the USA has said that if NK soldiers would go to Ukraine all restrictions on future USA weapon use will be lifted. 

For that all to happen we still have to wait for the results of the impending US prez elections from in a couple of days. It is what it is and now it's time to go to the next item.

 Item 2) New math post and another just talk out of your neck video.

Finally that long post is uploaded. I think it is the longest math post ever on the other website. And all in all over the years I have written about 275 of those math posts. Sometimes I think it is much to much, how can an ordinary person find a good way to navigate this in case they have some rudimentary interest in 3D complex numbers?

This post is all about the number alpha in three dimensions. It is many things or better said it has many interesting properties. All in all it has 11 images of math, that in itself is record long. But the size of the images is also larger as in the other 275 math posts. Namely 550x1500 pixels.

And I learned something new to; finally after all those years I have found a better way of representing the derivative with the help of a limit. The problem is that the beta you see in the picture below can go into a direction that has no inverse. And in that case you just can't use the upper limit.
I know it's not a world shocking math result, it is more like say Lebesgue integration: Not a brilliant idea but it works very well.

As always click on the picture to land at the new math post: 

New post title: Seven properties of the number alpha. 
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I found another video on electron spin in the German language. Together with the video from 2 days ago it once more perfectly demonstrates that those physics professionals just always talk out of their neck when it comes to electron spin.

What is the case? Now in the video on the SG-experiment from Tuesday there was a homogenous magnetic field and why was that? Well that was to fix the spin state of the electrons, either up or down. And 50% are supposed to go up and the other 50% will jump into the down state.
According to professional physics people that clearly shows that beforehand the electrons are in a super position of spin up and spin down.
Well I said many times they are crazy...;)

But in the new video on the Einstein-de-Haas effect we see similar conditions: A bunch of electrons getting a vertical magnetic field. For the explanation to work this time it is needed that 100% of the electrons will align themselves with the applied magnetic field.

Together these two video's show that indeed there is a lot of talking out of the neck going on. This is caused of course by the fact they don't understand the magnetic properties of the electron. They are not tiny magnets, the magnetic properties of the electrons are just as it's electric properties:

Permanent & Monopole.

Click on the picture if you want to see the German video:

Video title: Quantenmechanik 8: Elektronenspin
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L02fLLYZ0t0

Here's an English wiki on the Einstein-de-Haas effect in case you can't understand the German language:
Einstein–de Haas effect, link used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93de_Haas_effect 

In vids like this the pattern is always the same when it comes to electron spin: They only tell you the stuff that sounds logical, but if you take the idea of the electron being a tiny magnet to the limit you often land in a land known as Crazyland. And that part is always skipped by the professional physics people. 

One hundred % alignment or a 50/50% alignment, if you are good at talking out of your neck it's just never a problem over there in Crazyland where the professional physics community lives. 

Lets call it a day and let me say goodbye to you and as always thanks for your attention. Let me try to upload this to our biggest common garbage can: the internet. 

(30 Oct 2024) And the two items for this update are:

Item 1) Russian central bank raises 200 pts + But is it sewage?
Item 2) Tiny correction + Bad video on the Stern-Gerlach experiment.

  Item 1) Russian central bank raises 200 pts + But is it sewage?

About four days back the Russian central bank raised their stuff with 200 basis points to a whopping 21%. A few times in the last months I have wondered why Russian interest rates are that high compared to their reported inflation numbers.

For example peak inflation in the USA was (if memory serves) 9.1% and the max rate from the Federal Reserve was something like 5%. Here in the EU we has similar numbers, key observation is of course that interest rates are always far lower as the inflation it is supposed to tame.  

So why in Russia it  is the complete opposite? Inflation at something like 8% and the overnight interest rates at double digits? That's weird and of course there could be a fraudulent component in this all but there are also additional explanations possible. May be the Russian economy is far less debt driven as our economies are. That could be, you have a much smaller middle class in Russia where you have those rich elites and a lot of poor that live on a few hundred dollars a month.
Furthermore the Russian economy has changed a lot in recent times and may be the Russian statistics can't handle that properly; if entire new industries get into those statistics but they have already strongly elevated prices, in that case inflation statistic look good while they are in fact bad.  

Or may be the whole defense industry is just not into those inflation statistics and as such you get underreported inflation numbers via that route. It's hard to say but my guestimate is that the Russian inflation is a bigger problem as meets the eye. Click on the picture for a Reuters report:

Report title: Russian central bank hikes benchmark rate to 21%, highest since 2003. Link used: https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/russian-central-
bank-hikes-benchmark-rate-21-highest-since-2003-2024-10-25/
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This weekend or may be it was Monday there were those video's from Moscow with a very high fountain of brown stuff and we were told this was sewage going very high up.

At first I believed that, but later I backtracked that because there is no proof that inside Russia or Moscow there are high pressure sewer systems. To focus the mind in case you did not see any video, here is how it looked:

Now over a decade ago here in the city where I live we got a brand new high pressure sewer pipes under the street. It was meant for a pressure of 25 atmosphere or if you prefer 25 bar. In Dutch we were told that: Jullie krijgen een 25 atmosfeer riool.

At first I too thought this was some real weird idea of getting rid of all that piss and poop and used condoms and tampons and so on and so on. And I thought this was crazy to do in an area where there could be significant earth quakes. So I wanted to know a bit more about this.

Turns out we have two kinds of 'riool' or sewage. One is for households and companies, the other strictly for rain and melting snow and so. The high pressure thing is for extreme weather with giant amounts of rain. 

If I were an engineer, I would make a sewage system so that it needs preferably no pumping at all. Let alone a ridiculous high pressure of 25 bar...
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A lot more did happen in the Ukrainian equation but I would like to remark that Mark Rutte has made it to the North Korean television! That is a remarkable achievement, I can't remember of any other Dutch person to be named on that famous television network. So Mark gets my applause for achieving this almost impossible task. I absolutely know of no way how to get my own name on the beautiful North Korean television shows...;)

May be it is time to go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Tiny correction + Bad video on the Stern-Gerlach experiment.

In the last update I showed you an example of a so called counter example to Fermat's last theorem. Turns out later it was a bit too simple although the statement itself remains true. Look in the picture below from last week: 

The three terms 6, 10 and 15 are each their own square if you take them modulo 30. Lets check: 6 squared is 36 and the remainder is 6 if you divide it by 30. The same goes for 10 because 100 mod 30 = 10 and idem dito for the third term 15. As such the proof becomes just too simple once you have seen this 'they are their own square' kind of thing.
If you take three different odd primes, the 2 is causing this effect here, you won't have it that easy although even that is not very difficult to prove. So if you take the primes p, q and r as 3, 5 and 7 you have what I actually wanted to say.

So far for the tiny correction. The video for this day's update is another video from the Stern-Gerlach experiment. I'm afraid it is only in the German language. The reason I selected this video is that they replicated an entire setup of the Stern-Gerlach apparatus from the year 1922.

Of course that is not forbidden, for example a Bach music playing ensemble might try to collect music instruments from the time Bach was alive. As such there are no laws against making such a replica apparatus.
But it sure lacks any creativity, they just talk about the machine and never mention that you can also perform experiments with magnetic fields on electron beams like your good old television set or an old oscilloscope.

Here in this apparatus they have two magnetic fields, that's the main reason I show you this video: First a constant or better homogeneous and after that an inhomogeneous magnetic field.

Likely the first magnetic field is there in order to align the magnetic spins of the atoms they use. Or better: make the outer unpaired electron align with the applied homogenous magnetic field.

And of course these weirdo's leave out to explain as why half of the electrons would anti align their spin against the magnetic field. In all those video's it is always the same: As soon as it gets crazy they just don't talk about it. The crazy stuff gets skipped and as such it is not explained that if it were true that electrons are tiny magnets, why the fuck would they anti align?     

Video title: Zauberhafte Physik: Stern-Gerlach-Experiment
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap5QZ2CX8ys

These professional physics people, why are they to stupid to understand those simple energy problems we have with electrons as tiny magnets. Why the fuck should they anti-align?

End of this update, as always thanks for your attention.  

(25 Oct 2024) The two items for this update:

Item 1) NK soldiers already near battle zone & Zerlensky trolls a bit.
Item 2) Counter examples to Fermat's last theorem: a triplet mod 30.

 Item 1) NK soldiers already near battle zone & Zerlensky trolls a bit.

Just like a lot of other people I look at the weird situation with those NK soldiers and don't know what to think of it. Some Russian remarked that those soldiers were none of our business. But there are also rumors that Russia will give the tech to North Korea so they will have nuke launch capability from submarines. So that weirdo that said it was non of our business is just what it is: a weirdo. 

Remember back in Feb 2022 when we were told that Russia has every right to hold military exercises everywhere they want and it's non of our business... Well we see still everyday where that has lead us. 

South Korea has come out again stating they are reconsidering military aid to Ukraine. Until now they support Ukraine but did not want to deliver military aid. So may be that is going to change. 

Here is a CNN report on the NK stuff: 

North Korean troops spotted in Russian border region with Ukraine, says Kyiv Link used:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/24/europe/ukraine-north-korean-
troops-spotted-kursk-intl-latam/index.html 

And who knows, may be the only place where the NK soldiers will get used is in Kursk only. To be honest I don't believe that myself... And if they are deployed as soldiers on the front, another wildcard is how good they actually are. Ok they might be much younger as the average Russian recruit who's average ago now almost is 50. But these NK soldiers come from a population where there is not much done likely for things as vaccination. Likely the NK rulers have their kids properly vaccinated and the rest just not. Who knows? 

In another twist Zerlensky is wearing a funny tshirt (I found it in a video from prof Gerdes but I don't know where he got it from): 

I forgot to save the link to his video but it was something with the borders of say 1462 or something like that. Let us go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Counter examples to Fermat's last theorem: a triplet mod 30.

This is a small part of my new math post that all in all has grown rather long. May be it's the longest math post I have ever written. But it's finished now and this line of math is from property 6 of the number alpha.

The whole post is about seven properties of the number alpha and I tried to keep it as simple as possible and therefore I included some lightweight math like counter examples to the last theorem of Pierre de Fermat. If you are a normal person and not a mentally handicapped nerd kind of person like I am, you likely to not know what this last theorem is.
Well it says that there are no integers x, y and z such that:

x^n + y^n = z^n, this for n > 2.

Andrew Wiles has given a proof for that back in the 1991-ties but this proof is very long and also very complicated. Also as far as I know Andrew has never given a bunch of those easy to find counter examples that can do a perfect job in case you want to explain it to a general audience. 

In the picture below I took the three smallest prime numbers and multiplied them to get the modulo 30 thing. Mod 30 is just the remainder after division by 30, so 31 mod 30 is one and so on.
If you choose the a, b and c as below you can easily make such counter examples to the last theorem of Pierre de Fermat. What I myself like in this example is that it sums to 1, actually it is 1^n but that's 1 for all n. 

The capital A upside down is a symbol that means "For all" so the above means for all natural numbers n. That does not mean there are infinite solutions, the exponential terms are all periodic so it repeats after some n.

Now the new post is about 3D numbers of course, I only use the mod stuff as an example and in those 3D complex numbers you also have integers and with those you can indeed make infinite long of these counter examples. And again why they are never used in those lectures on what Andrew did to the last theorem of Fermat is unknown to me.
Lets leave it with that, no electron rant today so at the end may I thank you for your attention and already wish you a nice weekend.   

(23 Oct 2024) A couple of days back I am watching a video about a Dutch guy that was the first foreigner to receive some high SS medal during world war II. Anyway at the end of the video I suddenly freak out: There was a photo from just beside the main bridge. I always passed that bridge on my way to my school, the Immanuel school and that was of course a school with the bible... Anyway it turns out that the guy that was in the small docu likely lived in my village too... And he was a secretary of the local football club but we had two clubs back in the time, I was with the Christian football team CSVH... 

Video title: Hitler's First 'Foreign Hero' - Dutch SS Knight's Cross.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZD1bWyrIPQ

The items for today: 

Item 1) Are the North Korean soldiers in Ukraine an escalation?
Item 2) Dr. Jorge S. Diaz strikes again + funny Einstein news. 

 Item 1) Are the North Korean soldiers in Ukraine an escalation?

It is indeed bizarre news, just imagine how the Kremlin would react if soldiers from some EU country would go to Ukraine. Not as the occasional volunteer but lots of them on the behalf of their government. Well the Peskov's and Lavrov's of this world would make a gigantic amount of noise.

South Korea is even considering sending their own troops and weapons, I don't  know how serious this thinking is but that's just one of the things going on. And it even has it's own military logic to it: The North Korean soldiers are there to help the Russians but also to learn how to fight a Western kind of army.
Don't forget the NK military hasn't fought a war since like 70 years or so. And the South Koreans can study how to kill a lot of NK soldiers.

It's all totally bizarre, there is a large language barrier so will they only be used in meatwave kind of attacks? And if there are any survivors later, will North Korea take them back because these soldiers have been abroad and might have picked up some strange idea's. Religion seems to be forbidden in North Korea so how does that rhyme with the Russian so called traditional family values? 

Anyway Lloyd Austin the US secdef was in a surprise visit in Ukraine and there were a few military aid packages. No not the big hammers like 60 billion but still interesting stuff like 800 and or 400 million size packages.
Let me quote from Kyivindependend: 

The U.S. is planning to provide Ukraine with an aid package of $700-800 million for the domestic development of long-range capabilities, President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists on Oct. 21. 

Of course Ukraine making her own gear is the best long term solution without all the boundary conditions as set by other nations. Not that I am emotional or negative about such boundary conditions, that's just how international arms trade and military aid works. If for example Germany says they don't want to deliver stuff like those Taurus boom things, well that's it. Here is a link to the Kyivindependend: 

Title: Ukraine war latest: US to provide Ukraine with $800 million to boost domestic long-range capabilities. Link used:
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-39/

A lot more did happen but it's now time to go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Dr. Jorge S. Diaz strikes again + funny Einstein news. 

A few days back I finally finished my new math post that likely is the longest one ever written by me. So even turning it into pictures will take much more time as usual.

In the meantime Dr. Jorge strikes again with a second video on the Stern Gerlach experiment from 1922. And again in it's kind it is a very good video with again lots of interesting historical material.

This time I could learn interesting stuff like that it were the famous Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg that strongly promoted a so called repeated or sequential Stern-Gerlach kind of experiment. You know the kind of experiment that I claim has never been done successfully and that this is very strange because if you could do this likely you would have won a Nobel prize.
That's what I wrote a couple of times in the past and now it seems validated more and more that the pair Einstein & Heisenberg were pushing for this, if you would have done a successful repeated experiment also raises the likelihood of winning the main prize in physics.

What I myself like is of course the fact that both Einstein and Heisenberg just never realized to what barrage of problems there are with viewing electrons as tiny bipolar magnets. They too were too fucking stupid so to say...;)
But I am also aware that this can work against me; people will reason like "If Einstein did not see that electrons are magnetic monopoles, in that case this Venema guy is totally wrong".

If you click on the picture you will land at my latest post on the other website:   

Post title: Another video on the SG experiment and an additional pdf.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2024/10/20/another-video-
on-the-sg-experiment-and-an-additional-pdf/

Well here above you see what is supposed the probabilistic nature of electron spin. Precisely the stuff that all models of quantum computing are based upon: If not measured the qbits will always be in a super position of quantum states.

But people like Dr. Jorge Diaz they are with many thousands so likely they will run the asylum a few more years. Didn't I have an equation for that? The measure of stubbornness = the measure of stupidity.

Yes, why don't these people not see the weird energy problems there are with their version of electron spin? After all they are supposed to be the grandmasters behind complicated Hamiltonians that if implemented correctly gives humanity quantum computing. 

Lets leave it with that, as always thanks for your attention.

(18 Oct 2024) This week in two days time our ASML lost about 20% of it's market cap. It was a comedy and a tragedy at the same time because by accident the financial data were published a bit to early. So during the trading day people became aware that the orderbook was only half filled compared to expectations from so called analysts. So could that silly AI hype be over it's peak?

Like I said before, a lot of the new AI be it generative or language based models are impressive. But I still don't see how all that money poured in will generate enough profits. And it's a lot of money, today it emerged that more and more of the big players want to build entire nuclear plants for the production of electricity. And that for stuff our own brains do with about an energy consumption of 20 Watts... 

Item 1) NATO meeting of Sec's of Def & the peace plan.
Item 2) Two vids; one on quaternions and the other on quantum computing.

 Item 1) NATO meeting of Sec's of Def & the peace plan.

Seriously, I had planned to try and read the entire peace plan that is going round lately. I am always a bit skeptical on such plans, take for example the two state solution from years back in the Israel-Palestine conflict. But I had constantly other things to do and the only video I did see had only the beginning of the stuff.

But it started with simply stating that Ukraine should become a member of NATO first. Well that is a very fresh thing to hear, I don't know if NATO is ready for such a bold move at this point in time.
But it brings a smile to my face, may be and I say may be this is a thing to consider in the future.    

Another thing that was tldr for me was the next transcription of a Joint press conference between Mark and Volodimir Zelensky from Ukraine. But there's where I got the picture from so it is more a source file as an advice to read the entire thing that is from NATO HQ.  

Title: Joint press conference.
Link used: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_229582.htm

And a small remark about the Kursk stuff: The weird behavior observed lately seems a lot related to the fact that already the mud season has started there. Someone remarked that both the Ukrainians and Russians are without supplies so their ammo is running low. And likely their food too... 

If all confirmed that would indeed explain a lot. Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Two vids; one on quaternions and the other on quantum computing.

It's already some months back that I wrote about the quantum computing stuff where of course I always argue that all such computers based on electron spin will never ever work. When I wrote about that the last time I wanted to look up some stock prices of USA based quantum computer start-ups. But like with so many other things like peace plans it didn't come to it because I can always pick hundreds of things to write about. There is never a shortage on stuff, most I just never mentioned.  

But today Sabine had a video with two stocks in it, the D-Wave company with their difficult to understand annealing approach and that Rigetti computer company. It seems that the guy with the name Rigetti doesn't work any longer at Rigetti computers, a very interesting situation for say investors in the tech of tomorrow: quantum computers.

It could very well be that none the the way people try to build quantum computers will work because they are all based on the principle that quantum particles when unmeasured are always in a superposition of quantum states. And if that principle is just not true, and say for yourself why should such a thing be true because it sounds more as an opinion and not as an unavoidable thing flowing from many experiments in the lab. 

Sabine herself is much much more upbeat on quantum computing but I think that a bunch of people that can't see the energy problems we have in say an electron pair will never make good quantum computers. Sabine her video is rather short, about 7 minutes: 

Video title: The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONDs6zaSRTc

May be you once heard that story of a drunk guy who has lost his car keys and now is looking for his lost keys under the only lamppost on the entire parking lot. And when asked why he looked for them on this spot, instead of starting a fistfight he politely answers "Because here is the light".

As such you should view the next video: Why is the lady using the quaternions as founding stuff for quantum mechanics? Well that is her form of light, it is the only thing she knows of.
But quaternions are horrible if you want to differentiate, so you can't solve stuff like the Schrödinger equation. The only thing quaternions are good for is describing rotations in 3D space. That's why game developers and also the good old Space Shuttle love the quaternions.

And for example in my own 4D complex number, if I start rotating stuff using the 4D version of the complex exponential, it starts rotating over the four dimensions. But physics people use 3 spatial dimension and one for time and as such we get the famous 4D time-space.
Well this simply says my 4D complex numbers are not a good match for the 4D space-time from Einstein. It does not make much sense for the time coordinate to get rotated into a spatial dimension.

But I also didn't have enough time to flea through the entire video, likely it is just a thirteen in a dozen kind of video's relating physics to the quaternions from Hamilton. If this weekend I have a bit more time I can try to find some beautiful germs in this video but I doubt a lot I will succeed. And for this lady it goes too that she does not see the problems there are with the official version of electron spin. So that does not spell much good... Click on the picture for her video; it is rather long, about 40 minutes or so:

Video title: Quaternionic foundations of Quantum Mechanics and spin 1/2 visualization.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ArIMDWtHM

(16 Oct 2024) The two items for this update:

Item 1) Some to UA related details and a flag in the clouds.
Item 2) An interesting way of defining a derivative. 

  Item 1) Some to UA related details and a flag in the clouds.

A few days back it was suddenly rumored by Russian milbloggers that one of their SU-34's was shot down by an Ukrainian F-16. But there was zero following up on that story, until at least now, so likely it is just a story. And in case it is actually true, why talk about it? Three or four days back Forbes had an article on this detail, recall it could very well be just some gossip:  

Milbloggers Claiming Ukrainian F-16 Downed Russian Su-34 Aircraft.
Link used: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2024/10/12/
milbloggers-claiming-ukrainian-f-16-downed-russian-su-34-aircraft/ 

Suchominus was once more so friendly as to go through some of the satellite images from that Feodesia place. Here is another before & after, for his video click on the picture: 

Video title: Satellite Imagery Shows Nine Oil Tanks Destroyed at Feodosia Oil Depot After Drone Strike.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP4nSoF3-e8

This site burned also for a couple of days, it is always totally impossible to predict what likely will happen. When I saw the first pictures all you can do is hope but it could go out also fast. Well that clearly didn't happen here. 

Hundreds of other things did happen, for example I didn't have the time to keep track how the Kursk thing evolves. Some say the Russians are constantly gaining ground back while others say it is maneuver warfare and as such you must keep them running. 

Before we go to the next item I saved a screen shot from a video from the prof Gerdes guy. May be this is an unaltered photo and if these are true colors you get with a camera it is a perfect photo. Yet if I would estimate it, the colors have been adjusted a little bit so you get much more of that effect like it's the Ukrainian flag. I didn't save the link from the video so you can click on the picture all day long, nothing will happen. 

Lets go to the next item while skipping at least one hundred other UA details. 

 Item 2) An interesting way of defining a derivative. 

A long time back, in 1990 to be precise, I found those 3D complex numbers. And it is very easy to verify we have so called Cauchy-Riemann equations fulfilled and as such you can differentiate and integrate functions 'just like' on the real line. Just like your average high schooler has to manipulate things like a parabola f(x) = x^2$ and how to find the derivative and so.

At the time I found it hard to write down the derivative in a satisfying way, that is in such number spaces like 3D complex numbers there are always a bunch of non-invertible numbers. So you can't divide by that just like you can't divide by 0; it will blow up.

But years later I found a better way of writing the stuff down, it is very easy to understand what is going on: If you can't divide by it (here that beta number), bring it to the other side by multiplying with it. So I never had a good equivalent to the famous "Delta y / delta x" or "Rise over run" as the Americans say it so beautifully. A couple of years back I finally found this definition and if memory serves this is only the second time I pen it down in a new math post.
So the upper limit is for when you can't divide by beta and the one in the middle is just the equivalent of "Rise over run".  

I have now arrived at property number 7 of the number alpha in writing the new post. It is becoming a very long post, one of the longest I have ever written.

The professional math professors can't use the way of taking a limit the rise over run kind of way, but they can calculate limits like the upper one because there you only divide all the time by t and that's a real number. So for once they are not one 100% pathetic, a clear sign of positivism.

The female robot on the picture is a bitch for sure! She has two remote controlled guns on her shoulder and she lacks that friendly look in her facial expression.
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The last days I made two internet searches for comments on the 2024 physics Nobel prize that went to two founding fathers of AI. I expected a bit more uproar but there were not many comments on it. The most pleasant one to read was from somebody who asked him or herself the question: What is the Nobel committee trying to say with the handout of these prices?  

Well yes my dear reader what do you think? Is the committee trying to say something? Who knows? But I know it's time to upload this fresh pile of garbage to the biggest pile of garbage humanity has: the internet!
As always thanks for your attention. 

(11 Oct 2024) And what is life without a reminder of my girlfriend on a distance Majorie Taylor Greene? Yes sometimes I complain about our own Geert Wilders but the poor Americans must keep up with stuff like: 

Well yes I would love that too; Control over hurricanes of Cat I and II...;) May be we better go to the two items of today. 

Item 1) A bit more on that oil depot & more UA related stuff.
Item 2) Chemistry Nobel to two non academics?

 Item 1) A bit more on that oil depot & more UA related stuff.

In the last update I mentioned this oil depot thing, likely it is also a fuel storage place. Anyway two days back it wasn't clear if it would burn a long time but it seems to be going fine. Here is a satellite image, if you click the picture you land at an article of Newsweek where they have a Telegram video: 

Article title: Crimea Satellite Photos Reveal Damage to Oil Terminal on Fire After Strike.
Link used: https://www.newsweek.com/crimea-satellite-oil-russia-
ukraine-war-latest-1966321

There was another ammo dump successfully targeted but I don't know what was actually there. Some video said it were 400 Shahed drones (that Iranian stuff) but I didn't find much back in the regular press. Only this other Newsweek article: 

Ukraine Goes After Russia's North Korean Arms Stockpiles
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-north-korea-ammunition-
depot-karachev-bryansk-russia-1966210 

All in all the last weeks the news often has a more negative tone in it. It feels a bit as if people get tired from news from Ukraine. So may be the public opinion for support for Ukraine might be slowly turning. Or may be it goes just a bit down and that's it. But the tone of a lot of news reports and videos slowly becomes a bit more negative.  

Well it is what it is, lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Chemistry Nobel to two non academics?

Just one week ago I wrote that people like you and me can never get a Nobel prize no matter what. And yes most of the time it goes to university people only, the only counter example I knew of was some Japanese guy who invented that blue LED light. To be honest I never checked in detail if Noble prizes in physics only go to people with an academic job.

But now we have another two from more or less outside the official academia, I believe both work at Google and they got the chemistry prize for that protein folding thing from a few years back.   

It seems that the theme of AI is used more or less by the Nobel prize committee because both physics and chemistry share this. And like expected the first complaints that this is not true physics are already there. Well I don't care that much, yes AI development is not pure physics and much more computer science. On the other hand this committee is simply sovereign when it comes to what they want to do. I don't know if soverneign is the correct word here because that is mostly used in the context of countries, but you get the point: They can do as they see fit.

May be you recognize the guy on the left, that is Demis Hassabis who played a role in that cracking of the game of go from a couple of years back. Click on the picture for a Reuters report:  

Reuters report: Google's Nobel prize winners stir debate over AI research.
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/
googles-nobel-prize-winners-stir-debate-over-ai-research-2024-10-10/

The other guy is likely John Jumper who likely made some software some time ago and if you put in some amino acid sequence it spits out the likely 3D shape.

Well you can talk long and short on the subject of using AI or computers into research. I do it all the time, not AI but all kinds of computer programs because it saves me an awful lot of work. For example I know perfectly well how to find the eigenvalues of say a 5x5 matrix, but that is a lot of work prone to error; any tiny mistake and the whole answer is mostly gone.

But lets take for example this protein folding problem or a similar thing: how does biology only make one chiral kind of molecule? I suspect it has a lot to do with what I think of electrons: that they are magnetic monopoles. I can't prove it but it might very well be that in the two chiral versions of a molecule the electrons in each electron pair are swapped when it comes to their magnetic charge. Yet if somebody as a (bio)chemical researcher wants to investigate the monopole magnetic behavior of say electrons, all the existing AI and or computer programs are likely of zero help or use.

I have no problem with computer aided research, as it helps speeding up things it's fine. I myself don't use stuff like Chat GPT, I tried it a few times and yes it can spit out code even stuff like Latex code for writing my math texts. But overall I didn't like it a lot and now I never use it anymore.    

Hey lets call it an update and let me try to upload this to our common garbage can: the internet. Thanks for your attention. 

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

Click on the picture to go to part 22 of the archive: 

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

Till updates. 

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For older updates see the archives at index23.htm or go to the oversight of the archive pages.  

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