Nov 15, 2023Liked by Aleksandar Svetski, Drew Armstrong
Your discussion of wind energy brought to mind a scene from Shakespeare. Owen Glendower is talking with Hotspur, and says, "I can call spirits from the vasty deep!"
To which Hotspur retorts, "Why, so can I. Or so can any man. But will they come for you when you do call for them?"
So, in fact, we can "call on the wind to blow" all we want. But will it blow when we do call for it? Not as we will it, but as God's will be done.
You also mention time as an arrow. Groucho Marx once said, "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." It's funnier the more you ponder it.
Anti-matter is odd in that it has a different spin on it. So, in any experiment you might choose to conduct, there is no way to tell the difference between anti-matter moving forward through time and normal matter moving backward through time. There are mathematics to discuss in this same regard, you can look them up.
It is, of course, an interesting property of anti-matter and normal matter that when they occupy the same space, they tend to annihilate each other, energetically so to speak. Conservation applies, of course, such that the energy is equal to the mass converted times a constant we denote "c" squared where c is the speed of light in vacuum. There is another term reflecting the density of matter in the local plenum which is reduced to zero in the instance of vacuum, but is of some significance in, say, the centre of a star where there is much density.
I think there is also some room to mention that Ludwig von Mises was the pioneer of a study related to economics which is often called "praxeology." It reflects an observation of the human behaviour of establishing markets and finding market clearing prices through discussion and negotiation. I believe it is a distinct branch of study from economics which has a lot to do with the garbage emitted by governments to limit and prevent free markets from forming or operating. Government, in many ways, is the sand in the gears making everything fall apart, run slower, and grind more noisily. Or, as I am inclined to say, "The wheels of governmental justice grind slowly and turn people into a pulpy meat slurry."
I always find it amusing whenever I encounter the variable K for capital. Of course, it is K for "kapital" as in "Das Kapital" as in the freemason Marx book in which the whole tawdry notion of "capitalism" as an ism is first defined. Marx was such a jerk, and his writings such poison. It is this connexion and many others that makes of economics a much less agreeable subject, except for the Austrian variation, which is substantially itself praxeology.
Well, I've been rambling. I'm a ramblin' man. Thank you for your very interesting essay. God bless you. Amen.
Nov 20, 2023Liked by Aleksandar Svetski, Drew Armstrong
Fantastic essay. Loved every bit of it!
The Dōgen Zenji quote, “before one studies… mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth… mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.”
reminded me of another I have heard before. Internet credits it to Werner Heisenberg: "“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
Your discussion of wind energy brought to mind a scene from Shakespeare. Owen Glendower is talking with Hotspur, and says, "I can call spirits from the vasty deep!"
To which Hotspur retorts, "Why, so can I. Or so can any man. But will they come for you when you do call for them?"
So, in fact, we can "call on the wind to blow" all we want. But will it blow when we do call for it? Not as we will it, but as God's will be done.
You also mention time as an arrow. Groucho Marx once said, "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." It's funnier the more you ponder it.
Anti-matter is odd in that it has a different spin on it. So, in any experiment you might choose to conduct, there is no way to tell the difference between anti-matter moving forward through time and normal matter moving backward through time. There are mathematics to discuss in this same regard, you can look them up.
It is, of course, an interesting property of anti-matter and normal matter that when they occupy the same space, they tend to annihilate each other, energetically so to speak. Conservation applies, of course, such that the energy is equal to the mass converted times a constant we denote "c" squared where c is the speed of light in vacuum. There is another term reflecting the density of matter in the local plenum which is reduced to zero in the instance of vacuum, but is of some significance in, say, the centre of a star where there is much density.
I think there is also some room to mention that Ludwig von Mises was the pioneer of a study related to economics which is often called "praxeology." It reflects an observation of the human behaviour of establishing markets and finding market clearing prices through discussion and negotiation. I believe it is a distinct branch of study from economics which has a lot to do with the garbage emitted by governments to limit and prevent free markets from forming or operating. Government, in many ways, is the sand in the gears making everything fall apart, run slower, and grind more noisily. Or, as I am inclined to say, "The wheels of governmental justice grind slowly and turn people into a pulpy meat slurry."
I always find it amusing whenever I encounter the variable K for capital. Of course, it is K for "kapital" as in "Das Kapital" as in the freemason Marx book in which the whole tawdry notion of "capitalism" as an ism is first defined. Marx was such a jerk, and his writings such poison. It is this connexion and many others that makes of economics a much less agreeable subject, except for the Austrian variation, which is substantially itself praxeology.
Well, I've been rambling. I'm a ramblin' man. Thank you for your very interesting essay. God bless you. Amen.
Fantastic essay. Loved every bit of it!
The Dōgen Zenji quote, “before one studies… mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth… mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.”
reminded me of another I have heard before. Internet credits it to Werner Heisenberg: "“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
And of course both could be worked into the normal distribution meme
That is a beautiful quote. Thanks for reading, Andoni
Sooo good !!
Thankyou for the thoughtful response Jim !
You have given much to ponder, Jim