Anya

🎶 ‘ Summer suns are glowing, Over land and sea, Happy light is flowing, Bountiful and free, Everything rejoices in the mellow rays, All Earth’s countless voices Swell the song of praise.’ 🎶 🌞 😊 Happy Solstice! 😍

@DFletcherArtist @thegentleauthor @ahistoryinart Aah, thank you! 🙏 My Londoner partner didn’t even know that! 😂

@Anya33440265 @thegentleauthor @ahistoryinart Thank you very much Anya. Maryland is a small district close to Stratford in East London. It even has its own rail station on the Elizabeth Line

‘Sunday Morning, Maryland’ 2026 On display in my next exhibition’Corners’ at Townhouse, 5 Fournier Street, Spitalfields, E1 6QE June 13- July 5 @thegentleauthor @ahistoryinart @PaintingsinLondon

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@KateXGate Thanks! Very kind of you after I was so rude. I apologise. I personally like reading 'normal' (old-fashioned?) text, which seems more serious & doesn't require constant scrolling as if for short attention-spans. But many people do suffer the latter, so your style might help them!

@Anya33440265 Fair criticism. I use AI-assisted pacing/spacing intentionally to keep dense material readable. But if people are noticing the formatting more than the ideas, that defeats the point. Valuable feedback. 🙏🏼

BLACK HOLES MAY NOT BE OBJECTS They May Be Connections. In 1935, Einstein and Rosen discovered something strange hidden inside the equations of General Relativity. Under extreme spacetime curvature, black hole geometry appeared to create a bridge connecting distant regions of spacetime. What we now call: Einstein–Rosen bridges aka wormholes. But there was a catch. The original Einstein–Rosen bridge is not traversable. It pinches off too quickly for anything to cross from one side to the other. So in standard classical GR, black holes are not stable portals you can simply fly through. Physicists largely treated the solution as a mathematical curiosity. Yet the deeper question never disappeared: Why does spacetime geometry keep finding distant regions connected together under extreme conditions? ——— You may have also noticed- modern physics keeps circling the same patterns but from different directions: • entanglement connects quantum states nonlocally • wormholes connect spacetime geometrically • both encode relationships rather than “movement through empty space” Black holes Quantum entanglement Holography Information theory Quantum gravity Different fields. Different frameworks. Same underlying geometry. Reality may be fundamentally relational. Not built from isolated objects, but from connections. ——— Then came one of the most dangerous ideas in modern theoretical physics: ER = EPR Proposed by Maldacena and Susskind. The idea suggests that Einstein–Rosen bridges (ER) and quantum entanglement (EPR) may be different mathematical descriptions of the same underlying phenomenon. Not sci-fi tunnels through space. Something deeper: A possible equivalence between geometry and information itself. Meaning spacetime may not merely contain connections.. Spacetime itself may emerge from them. ——— Which reframes black holes entirely. Maybe they are not simply collapsed stars. Maybe they are locations where the connective architecture of reality becomes impossible to ignore. Places where geometry begins exposing the hidden relational structure underneath spacetime itself. So are black holes Einstein–Rosen bridges? In classical General Relativity: • certain black hole solutions mathematically contain Einstein–Rosen bridge structure But in modern theoretical physics: • the bridge may be less about travel • and more about the universe revealing that spacetime itself could emerge from informational relationships Which is a far stranger (and more unifying) implication than wormholes.

Sadly I had to block a seemingly pleasant Canadian with whom I’d agreed about spiritual matters … when he expressed delight at the killings of people whose religion he didn’t like (or even understand.) The reason? He believed that the victims had also killed people. 😳😥😨

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@SmithamDan @truetomharley Are you being sarcastic? Surely you don't really love murder, cruelty & nastiness, whoever performs or agrees with them? I thought you were Christian.

@truetomharley I've always loved this account. He straight up taunts the priests of baal.

Love this passage. “Maybe he’s snoozing or in the can taking a dump!” Let no one ever say that the scriptures cannot be earthy.

@truetomharley How horrible! Much vicious hatred & cruelty indeed. Yet the top god of the wandering tribes took on several characteristics of Baal (thunder-god, volcanos, earthquakes etc.) Was that El, the chief god of the many Elohim, or already Yahweh by then? I forget ... 🤔

I hate the way the English language is changing for the worse (NOT 'the worst'). I can't stand synod, conference, menopause no longer using the article ('the' or 'a'). Why is a student room now called 'halls', plural? 'Favourite' needs no 'most'! 'Unique' has no degrees!

@Sonas1679060 @AllisonPearson Isn't it? Well what actually is it, please?

@AllisonPearson I found this so confusing. Took me a while to realise it wasn’t Dawn French in an 90s sketch

Mums and Dads, worried about school standards? Never fear, the Secretary of State for Education has invited Gemma Collins in for a cuppa. Can you believe a British government has produced this crap? It’s 🙈

@dawnrfrench395 ?

WTF

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@DrFielder35557 @joannamoncrieff The 4 humours make observational sense at least, unlike a 'chemical imbalance'. One can tell if someone's dominant 'humour' is choleric, phlegmatic, sanguine or melancholic, as these are vocabulary words. Dad & I used to play 'diagnosing' ppl for fun when I was a child!

I got stares 45 years ago, while in training I asked how the putative chemical imbalance was measured. I offered up the observation that this appeared to be no different from the four humors theory of Hippocrates many centuries ago. It has been my unproven theory that many people who claim to benefit from psychotropics do so because of transference, and placebo effects.

I can understand this is a difficult time for my psychiatry colleagues. I am sure they all have good intentions, but it turns out that the most widely used psychiatric treatment, antidepressants, causes significant iatrogenic effects (e.g. severe withdrawal reactions, PSSD), is not very effective (at best) and does not target an underlying biological abnormality after all. Although many people still seek a psychiatric diagnosis and a medical approach, increasing numbers highlight how misleading and disabling this approach can be. Their voices are starting to be heard, and we need to work with them to provide help for people who have been harmed by psychiatric treatment, and to prevent more harm being done. Trying to shoot the messenger doesn’t help anyone.

@KateXGate Oh dear, so sorry! I genuinely thought it was AI because of all the terse phrases & spacing. Hearty apologies.

@Anya33440265 Sorry you don't like it. It's mostly my writing by the way which isn't too shabby if I say so myself😉. I direct the research and add the depth/angle I want then I ask AI to clean it up and format it. I feel it helps the flow. But I know it rubs some people the wrong way.

The Man Who Found the Upside Down In the early 1900s physics was coming apart. Einstein had already destabilized Newton. Quantum mechanics was turning matter into probability soup. Light behaved like particles. Electrons behaved like waves. Nothing fully fit together anymore. ——— Then came Paul Dirac. A man so painfully quiet that Cambridge students jokingly invented a unit called: “one dirac” defined as one word spoken per hour. That’s the kind of mind we’re dealing with. But underneath the silence was one of the most dangerous intellects physics has ever produced. Dirac believed something radical: not intuition. Not common sense. Not human comfort. Mathematical symmetry. In fact, Dirac once said; "It is more important to have beauty in one’s equations than to have them fit experiment.” Which sounds insane until you realize what happened next- In 1928 Dirac attempted something nearly impossible: combine Einstein’s relativity with quantum mechanics into a single equation for the electron. And then the equation produced something no one wanted: negative energy states. Most physicists assumed they were mathematical garbage. Artifacts. Mistakes to discard. Dirac disagreed. He trusted the equations more than human intuition. And that decision changed physics forever. ——— Because Dirac proposed something shocking: if electrons exist, then opposite versions should exist too. Same mass. Opposite charge. Antimatter. At the time this sounded borderline absurd. Then in 1932, Carl Anderson found it. The positron. Anderson was studying cosmic rays inside a cloud chamber placed within a magnetic field when he noticed a particle leaving a track identical to an electron’s… except it curved the opposite direction. Same mass. Opposite charge. Exactly what Dirac’s equations implied should exist. ——— Not the first time mathematics predicted something before observation. But one of the most psychologically destabilizing moments in the history of physics. Because reality did not lead the equations. The equations led reality. And underneath all of this was an even deeper destabilization: the vacuum itself was no longer truly empty. Dirac helped push physics away from a universe built from isolated objects and toward one built from fields, symmetries, constraints, and permitted relationships. Dirac did not merely solve equations. He helped drag physics across the threshold where humanity first began realizing the universe may be stranger, deeper, and more mathematically alive than human perception was designed to comfortably endure.

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@TiCLme Crackington Haven? Thom Yorke of Radiohead? He had a house there many years ago ...

Where am I going to ? and for a bonus … who might I meet ? #WednesdayWalk

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@GMShivers She could be autistic; highly intelligent but rule-bound & welded to her expectations, w little or no flexibility. I know ppl like that (in science, research, engineering & other academic disciplines.) Unexpected or out-of-their-usual-context things are hard for them to accept.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night because one time a lady told me she was counting calories and asked me how many were in her McDonalds breakfast because she didn't have her phone, and I told her whatever it was and said (minus condiments like syrup etc) and she got really angry and told me that they legally had to include the syrup so I was wrong, even after I showed her where it said "doesn't include condiments, syrup etc" she insisted I was wrong because "that wasn't legal". It randomly triggers an existential crisis for me because outside of that I would have had no idea this lady was dumb, because she relies on very specific speaking rules to never appear wrong until she encounters something like that and it just short-circuits her programming. Also keep in mind I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WOMAN.