Agona Apell

#physics ...1 It was highly naive of quantum gravity research community to attempt to quantize gravity without first quantizing motion. A quantum theory of motion would have saved them from the meandering and wandering of the last 100 years as I illustrate here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

@TheFirstonTV @megynkelly @JesseKellyDC Netanyahu says he wanted this war for 40 years. Apparently, there was no one dumb enough to fall for his tricks. Goes to show that if you can wait long enough, a fool always comes along.

"He fell for it." @MegynKelly tells @JesseKellyDC that Trump got tricked.

@skdh @nightofthemo_on When will you offer your bullshit meter as part of your YouTube merchandise?

@nightofthemo_on I was on my video shortlist but then didn't make it.... Maybe I should reconsider.

Doesn’t mean anything until @skdh tells me what it scores on the bullshit meter

@Pontifex MAGA cannot stand the Pope because he criticizes "Jesus".

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@Microinteracti1 😂 Cancel that 💩 Trumps fucks up everything.

Counterpoint: The most oppressive countries normally include words like "democratic" and "people's" in their names and the names of their institutions. E.g. Democratic People's Republic of North Korea 🙄. In one African country, the Public Safety Unit was a euphemistic name for an institution charged with extrajudicial arrests and executions of regime opponents. As Shakespeare counsels, " ... a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." In other words, it's character, not names, that determines outcomes. The justice system would deliver justice if the people who mould the system or serve in it were generally people of good character.

Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong. Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names". For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy. In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system". But they're not. They can't be the justice system. The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve. Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you? No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system. The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe. If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse. In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite. Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat. We all understand this. We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act. Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to. We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again. And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again. The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you. Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute. It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.

@mehdirhasan Yes, after the Iran debacle, USA needs a consolidation prize. Cuba is small and weak enough to be that prize.

"according to two sources familiar with the situation...officials at the Pentagon... were quietly given a new directive that came straight from the Trump White House. The message: ramp up your preparations for possible military operations against Cuba." zeteo.com/p/is-cuba-next

@ChristopherHale MAGA cannot believe that the Pope has criticized 'Jesus'

NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters today that Pope Leo XIV doesn't understand “something called the just war doctrine.” Pope Leo is an Augustinian friar who spent twelve years leading Augustine’s religious order. Augustine invented the doctrine. thelettersfromleo.com/p/something-ca…

#physics ...8 The galactic curves conundrum is an embarrassing matter: the solution is so simple that the puzzle should never have arisen. What is missing is not unseen matter or interpolating functions but a vectorial combination of the minimum gravitational acceleration and the acceleration due to the inverse square law. The reason for this vectorial combination is also embarrassingly simple. The empirical Tully-Fisher relation emerges directly from this vectorial addition, and the model solves all galactic curves without dark matter and without interpolation functions. Further details in attached screenshot.

#physics ...1 It was highly naive of quantum gravity research community to attempt to quantize gravity without first quantizing motion. A quantum theory of motion would have saved them from the meandering and wandering of the last 100 years as I illustrate here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

The galactic curves conundrum is an embarrassing matter: the solution is so simple that the puzzle should never have arisen. What is missing is not unseen matter or interpolating functions but a vectorial combination of the minimum gravitational acceleration and the acceleration due to the inverse square law. The reason for this vectorial combination is also embarrassingly simple. The empirical Tully-Fisher relation emerges directly from this vectorial addition, and the model solves all galactic curves without dark matter and without interpolation functions. Further details in attached screenshot.

A group of astrophysicists say that we have miscalculated the mass of galaxy clusters and that we don't need dark matter after all, modified gravity works just fine youtube.com/watch?v=ia4htn…

@Kekius_Sage The fourth dimension is a mathematical artifact invented to make relativity theory sound. It doesn't exist in reality. Kinetic and gravitational time dilation as well as other relativistic effects can be accounted for in 3-D if you assume discrete motion.

Why can we move through space freely but not through time?

MIND-BLOWING: THE 10 TOP REAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF TRUMP AND HEGSETH IN IRAN 1. The Strait of Hormuz was open - Now it’s blocked by two militaries 2. Iran had no nukes - Now every nation knows it needs nukes 3. Iranians were divided, with some favoring and some opposing the US and Israel - Now Iranians are united against the US and Israel 4. US military bases had pretended to be assets - Now they’ve been exposed as liabilities 5. Murdering an entire govt was considered a very bad thing - Now it’s fine, the US set a precedent for everyone 6. The Gulf states pretended to be loyal to the global family of Islam, not US/Israel - Now everyone knows the opposite is true 7. The “allies” thought the US valued them - Now they know the US is destroying them 8. US citizens used to spend nothing on Iran - Now they’re bleeding US$30 billion on that country 9. Peace negotiations used to be sacrosanct - Now we know the US says its okay to kill negotiators 10. The world suspected the US was a murderous rogue regime - Now we know it’s true.

@aakashgupta What's most amazing is that the inventory believed that anyone outside a circus troop could ride a two-wheeled bike.

The physics of why bicycles stay upright is one of the most embarrassing unsolved problems in classical mechanics. For 150 years, textbooks said gyroscopic precession from the spinning wheels kept you balanced. In 2011, a team at Cornell and Delft built a bicycle with counter-rotating wheels that canceled all gyroscopic effects. Zero precession. The bike still stayed upright. Then they said it was trail, the geometric offset where the front wheel touches the ground behind the steering axis. The Cornell team built a bike with zero trail. Still stable. They published in Science. The title was basically "we've been teaching this wrong for a century." The actual mechanism is a feedback loop between your lean angle and the steering geometry. When you start to fall left, the front wheel turns left, which pushes the contact patch under your center of mass. You correct without thinking. Your vestibular system and motor cortex run a continuous control loop at roughly 5-10 corrections per second. The reason you fall when you stop is that the correction loop needs forward velocity to function. Below about 5 mph, the geometry can't steer fast enough to catch your lean. Einstein was right about the keep-moving part. He just got the mechanism backward. Balance on a bicycle has almost nothing to do with momentum. It's a real-time control system that happens to require motion as an input. The cyclist in this video doing a track stand is running that control loop manually at near-zero velocity. That's harder than riding at full speed. The scooter passengers don't need any of this. Three wheels. Static stability. Physics solved that one a long time ago.

Lindsey Graham has now been in politics 12,478 days without a single female staffer accusing him of sexual harrassment.

@RichardDawkins If humans are racist against their own species, u can imagine what we would do to Neanderthals. In fact, I believe it was humans that wiped them out. Look what happened in Australia and America to the natives. Now, imagine if those natives were Neanderthals...

Neanderthal genome is largely known. If it becomes possible to reconstruct a live Neanderthal person, what, in your opinion, would be the pros and cons? I’m genuinely interested in canvassing opinions for and against.

Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace

Dios no bendice ningún conflicto. Quien es discípulo de Cristo, príncipe de la paz, nunca se pone del lado de quienes ayer empuñaban la espada y hoy lanzan bombas. No serán las acciones militares las que creen espacios de libertad o tiempos de #paz, sino solo la promoción paciente de la convivencia y del diálogo entre los pueblos.

@aakashgupta Trump says he gets by on 4 hours per night. Does it show?

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening. UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm. The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6. Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it. The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in. About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters. "I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

@Kekius_Sage I hope the priest recommended a fortnightly confession routine

🚨 Anthropic seeks help from a Catholic priest to teach its AI ethics, as the industry moves faster than moral standards can keep up.

@WKCosmo Discrete motion makes stuff other than light travel at speed less than one.

The speed of light is 1. You should be asking why other stuff travels at speed less than 1.