I read Walter Isaacson’s bio on Einstein and listened intently to this woman and I must admit that although I find astrophysics fascinating and am glad people enter the field to increase our knowledge, I don’t comprehend it whatsoever but I will keep trying.
Just the idea of two electrons spinning in opposite ways and then when one electron changes its spin the other one must change its spin in the opposite direction simultaneously regardless of distance makes no sense to me even though that is what occurs.
Lots of richard Feynman presentations on You Tube that are wonderful as well.
The C.S. Lewis and dos Passos quotes illustrate a basic truth that underlies all human affairs, political, social, religious, cultural, economic, everything. That truth is that humans are tribal. It’s hardwired in the neurons and the glands.
You can see parallels to this behavior in the great apes, esp. chimpanzees.
The desire for security by joining a group is completely rational. The lone person is more vulnerable, whether to literal predators seeking food or social predators seeking political/social prey. You’re less likely to eaten by the leopard if you’re part of a strong shrewd*. You’re less likely to be fired for whatever if you have lots of allies in the company/university/whatever, and obviously politics depends on assembling a large voting coalition. It tends to be even stronger in women because they are physically more vulnerable and also have to worry about the well-being of their offspring.
Thus, the instinct for tribes arises from natural selection, and it’s right there in our cells.
Healthy societies organize their institutions to channel these tendencies constructively, and restrain their excesses.
When a society enshrines personal autonomy, though, the paradoxical result is to amplify the worst excesses of the tribal tendency. The healthier group identifications are removed and you end up with the raw simian tendencies.
Add in the Fall of Man and you have a toxic brew.
*Apparently that’s the formal term for a tribe of chimps.
I read Walter Isaacson’s bio on Einstein and listened intently to this woman and I must admit that although I find astrophysics fascinating and am glad people enter the field to increase our knowledge, I don’t comprehend it whatsoever but I will keep trying.
Just the idea of two electrons spinning in opposite ways and then when one electron changes its spin the other one must change its spin in the opposite direction simultaneously regardless of distance makes no sense to me even though that is what occurs.
— John Galt III
If it’s any comfort, they can’t entirely comprehend it either. That is, they can work it mathematically, and make predictions based on the math that later test out, but they can’t really visualize it. The human mind is not wired for that.
For ex, trying to ‘visualize’ a subatomic particle is self-contradictory. We ‘visualize’ based on how sense of sight. Our sense of sight is based on the emission and reflection of light. But individual subatomic particles interact with light differently. They absorb and emit photons, at specific energies, but not in such a way that they could ever be ‘seen’. The common visualization of a little sphere of ‘stuff’ is invalid, because what we call stuff is an assembly of such particles.
As for the ‘action at a distance’ issue, that’s been an ongoing debate about how it can exist and how it ‘actually’ works since Einstein and Bohr.
Nor can humans really ‘visualize’ how a particle can be in more than one place at a time, or simultaneously follow different paths from starting point to finishing point, until it’s measured. They do it (or every experiment seems to indicate that), but we can’t picture it, and neither can the physicists.
Lots of richard Feynman presentations on You Tube that are wonderful as well.
— John Galt III
But not all of them present him correctly. Be wary.
@John Galt III:when one electron changes its spin the other one must change its spin in the opposite direction simultaneously regardless of distance makes no sense to me
No one understands it, they just get used to it. If you think about it, the non-quantum situation, where one spinning ball changes its spin and the other one doesn’t do anything, no one understands that one either. But they are used to it.
If I hadn’t found that out in the course of my own studies, the days when I taught introductory physics would have informed me. Very few of the people who came into those classes were used to how the forces work on a thrown ball; most of those who passed those classes were a little more used to it afterward, but never as many as I’d hoped for, and only for a few did it get natural to think of it that way.
Bizarre…but what else is new?
Can a judge be held in contempt of SCOTUS?
Of his own court?
This one should have everyone’s head spinning—in every direction…
Must be said that Judge Boasberg is certainly behaving like a Democratic Party hit man.
(Kinda’ like Sleezewell, actually…)
@HC68: But not all of [Feynman YouTubes] present him correctly. Be wary.
Feynman YouTubes have become a cottage industry of AI slop. Richard Feynman hits the sweet spot of a cool, brilliant, well-known physicist, whose name can garner easy clicks.
The videos aren’t necessarily bad, but they aren’t necessarily good either. If I want to learn some physics from Feynman, I don’t want an AI paraphrase on YouTube.
Here’s a minute’s worth of the RealRichardFeynman on some real physics:
____________________________________
A philosopher once said it is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same result
There were giants in those days. Plus he was a handsome devil!
Paging Snow on Pine: toward the end, she introduces a concept that explains how aliens can “experience” being here, even as UFOs, because space-time doesn’t exist for them.
Or something.
Paging physicsguy – help?!
huxley comments and warns:
“‘HC68: But not all of [Feynman YouTubes] present him correctly. Be wary.’
“Feynman YouTubes have become a cottage industry of AI slop.”
I never knew that! I don’t follow online YT treatments of Feynman. Good to know and be aware — find his real lectures. He was also a regular published book author, for a scientist . Seek out these sources, too.
Curious about the ongoing mine hunting sweeps of the Strait of Hormuz? Do you know that US Navy minesweepers are not designed for mine sweeping? No. Destroyers have been adapted for the task, getting it done slowly at 3 knots. They can do the channel in 20 sweeps, plus up to several redo’s.
Why couldn’t Iran provide mine locations? Because they were launched in great haste over a month during US military buildup. Records were sacrificed to timely necessity for de[;oyment. That’s what needs to be dealt with.
West Texas Intermediate crude fell to $91 this afternoon. Markets expect tanker passage will resume soon.
But how soon? Will clearance take the rest of the week? Or maybe next week? Navy Decoded at YT gives you the fundamentals and lovely and interesting visual details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYOoQx94IA
Trump has won in the ME because both Iran and China have conceded control of the Strait of Hormuz to the USA.
TJ…’Do you know that US Navy minesweepers are not designed for mine sweeping?’
What *were* they designed for?
@ John Galt III
It is weird, but the distant electron spin doesn’t “switch”, it had a mixed state, neither up nor down. Same with the measured electron, measurement puts it in the up or down state. The entangled pair cannot be treated independently, that would violate the conservation of angular momentum, so the theory must work that way to conform to the known laws of physics. Note that for the near particle state to be communicated to the distant observer takes place at the speed of light at best, so relativity isn’t violated, but there is a correlation between the two measurements even though they look independent to the observers making the measurements. It’s still weird, but perhaps less so.
It is the measurement process that is complicated. QM posits that measurement reduces to an Hermitian operator, but that is only true a priori for energy, where it is required for unitary evolution of the system. The rest seems to be an emergent behavior when the measured system becomes entangled with the measurement apparatus. There are recent experiments exploring the emergence of that property by using smaller and smaller measurement systems.
I am not an expert, but that is my current understanding.
David Foster asks about US minesweepers.
So far, only destroyers have been deployed, two or three. These are ships designed to be speedy.
Wiki explains “In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.” Such as aircraft carriers.
The YT channel mentions that maybe three types of dedicated minesweepers have been decommissioned recently, and as late as last year.
I believe there is new technology that may be added to the mix
(eg, aerial laser detection). Plus, a couple of Euro-nations (UK and France?) are sending dedicated minesweepers.
Whatever happens, it may be a real medium-term problem, even though a main channel may be declared safe soon.
One wild card is simply that mines will drift with the currents and tides. Another one is that Iran has used non-metallic mines that can only be detected visually.
What surprised me in the clip is that speedy Sea-Doo style Wave Runners will also be used to sweep the sea for mines — closer to shore, one imagines.
We do have ships that have been fitted for minesweeping duties.
The Navy has three Independence-class LCS permanently configured with the Mine Countermeasures (MCM) package:
USS Canberra (LCS-30) Bahrain Indian Ocean / 5th Fleet area
USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) Singapore (maintenance) Out of theater
USS Tulsa (LCS-16) Singapore (maintenance) Out of theater
Only USS Canberra is in a position where it could potentially respond relatively quickly.
The other two were sent to Southeast Asia in March 2026 for scheduled maintenance and logistics and have not been recalled.
What the Navy Is Doing Instead
The U.S. has already begun initial mine clearance operations in the Strait of Hormuz using:
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy) to “set conditions” and create safe pathways.
Unmanned systems, helicopters, and other assets.
The dedicated LCS with the full remote/standoff MCM package (using drone boats, underwater drones, and MH-60S helicopters) would be ideal for this mission, but the Navy is proceeding with what’s immediately available while the other two ships remain in maintenance.
I gather the old minesweepers that were just decommissioned last fall wouldn’t have been used in the Strait anyway, because they didn’t have defensive capabilities against missiles/drones.
Apparently the Independence class ships aren’t ready to be tested in combat.
The Mine Countermeasures (MCM) mission package on these ships is relatively new and has not been fully proven in real-world combat conditions.
The Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reported in early 2026 that there was insufficient performance data to confirm full operational effectiveness.
There have been ongoing technical problems with key components (unmanned surface vehicles, sonar systems, and integration), leading some analysts to describe the capability as still immature.
BrianE:
Unfortunately the Little Crappy Ships (LCS) ( see cdrsalamander on substack) are not capable of much of anything, a failure of naval transformation (hubris). IIRC their minesweepering capability is dubious, they are mechanically unreliable, and basically lemons.
NEWS MAKER-Before 8PM Tuesday night, Zerohedge posted this headline in a long long post:
Thee are a lot of scientifically/mathematically based YouTube discussions/presentations which I don’t understand at all, and a lot of them are at Curt Jaimungal’s website, like these *
I appears that unless you have a good education in/grasp of higher mathematics and physics you can’t really understand what they are trying to convey.
New post (well, actually, a new platform for an old post)….Cruelty, Conformity, and Political Activism
https://davidfoster273133.substack.com/p/conformity-cruelty-and-political
Signals of unknown origin and fidelity.
I read Walter Isaacson’s bio on Einstein and listened intently to this woman and I must admit that although I find astrophysics fascinating and am glad people enter the field to increase our knowledge, I don’t comprehend it whatsoever but I will keep trying.
Just the idea of two electrons spinning in opposite ways and then when one electron changes its spin the other one must change its spin in the opposite direction simultaneously regardless of distance makes no sense to me even though that is what occurs.
Lots of richard Feynman presentations on You Tube that are wonderful as well.
The C.S. Lewis and dos Passos quotes illustrate a basic truth that underlies all human affairs, political, social, religious, cultural, economic, everything. That truth is that humans are tribal. It’s hardwired in the neurons and the glands.
You can see parallels to this behavior in the great apes, esp. chimpanzees.
The desire for security by joining a group is completely rational. The lone person is more vulnerable, whether to literal predators seeking food or social predators seeking political/social prey. You’re less likely to eaten by the leopard if you’re part of a strong shrewd*. You’re less likely to be fired for whatever if you have lots of allies in the company/university/whatever, and obviously politics depends on assembling a large voting coalition. It tends to be even stronger in women because they are physically more vulnerable and also have to worry about the well-being of their offspring.
Thus, the instinct for tribes arises from natural selection, and it’s right there in our cells.
Healthy societies organize their institutions to channel these tendencies constructively, and restrain their excesses.
When a society enshrines personal autonomy, though, the paradoxical result is to amplify the worst excesses of the tribal tendency. The healthier group identifications are removed and you end up with the raw simian tendencies.
Add in the Fall of Man and you have a toxic brew.
*Apparently that’s the formal term for a tribe of chimps.
— John Galt III
If it’s any comfort, they can’t entirely comprehend it either. That is, they can work it mathematically, and make predictions based on the math that later test out, but they can’t really visualize it. The human mind is not wired for that.
For ex, trying to ‘visualize’ a subatomic particle is self-contradictory. We ‘visualize’ based on how sense of sight. Our sense of sight is based on the emission and reflection of light. But individual subatomic particles interact with light differently. They absorb and emit photons, at specific energies, but not in such a way that they could ever be ‘seen’. The common visualization of a little sphere of ‘stuff’ is invalid, because what we call stuff is an assembly of such particles.
As for the ‘action at a distance’ issue, that’s been an ongoing debate about how it can exist and how it ‘actually’ works since Einstein and Bohr.
Nor can humans really ‘visualize’ how a particle can be in more than one place at a time, or simultaneously follow different paths from starting point to finishing point, until it’s measured. They do it (or every experiment seems to indicate that), but we can’t picture it, and neither can the physicists.
— John Galt III
But not all of them present him correctly. Be wary.
@John Galt III:when one electron changes its spin the other one must change its spin in the opposite direction simultaneously regardless of distance makes no sense to me
No one understands it, they just get used to it. If you think about it, the non-quantum situation, where one spinning ball changes its spin and the other one doesn’t do anything, no one understands that one either. But they are used to it.
If I hadn’t found that out in the course of my own studies, the days when I taught introductory physics would have informed me. Very few of the people who came into those classes were used to how the forces work on a thrown ball; most of those who passed those classes were a little more used to it afterward, but never as many as I’d hoped for, and only for a few did it get natural to think of it that way.
Bizarre…but what else is new?
Can a judge be held in contempt of SCOTUS?
Of his own court?
(Yes, it’s Boasberg…)
“Appeals Court Terminates Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Trump Admin”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/appeals-court-terminates-criminal-contempt-proceedings-against-trump-admin
This one should have everyone’s head spinning—in every direction…
Must be said that Judge Boasberg is certainly behaving like a Democratic Party hit man.
(Kinda’ like Sleezewell, actually…)
@HC68: But not all of [Feynman YouTubes] present him correctly. Be wary.
Feynman YouTubes have become a cottage industry of AI slop. Richard Feynman hits the sweet spot of a cool, brilliant, well-known physicist, whose name can garner easy clicks.
The videos aren’t necessarily bad, but they aren’t necessarily good either. If I want to learn some physics from Feynman, I don’t want an AI paraphrase on YouTube.
Here’s a minute’s worth of the RealRichardFeynman on some real physics:
____________________________________
A philosopher once said it is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same result
Well they don’t.
–“Feynman’s rare and real lecture|Double Slit|Electron” (0:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaYLA_fDNwA
____________________________________
There were giants in those days. Plus he was a handsome devil!
Paging Snow on Pine: toward the end, she introduces a concept that explains how aliens can “experience” being here, even as UFOs, because space-time doesn’t exist for them.
Or something.
Paging physicsguy – help?!
huxley comments and warns:
“‘HC68: But not all of [Feynman YouTubes] present him correctly. Be wary.’
“Feynman YouTubes have become a cottage industry of AI slop.”
I never knew that! I don’t follow online YT treatments of Feynman. Good to know and be aware — find his real lectures. He was also a regular published book author, for a scientist . Seek out these sources, too.
Curious about the ongoing mine hunting sweeps of the Strait of Hormuz? Do you know that US Navy minesweepers are not designed for mine sweeping? No. Destroyers have been adapted for the task, getting it done slowly at 3 knots. They can do the channel in 20 sweeps, plus up to several redo’s.
Why couldn’t Iran provide mine locations? Because they were launched in great haste over a month during US military buildup. Records were sacrificed to timely necessity for de[;oyment. That’s what needs to be dealt with.
West Texas Intermediate crude fell to $91 this afternoon. Markets expect tanker passage will resume soon.
But how soon? Will clearance take the rest of the week? Or maybe next week? Navy Decoded at YT gives you the fundamentals and lovely and interesting visual details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYOoQx94IA
Trump has won in the ME because both Iran and China have conceded control of the Strait of Hormuz to the USA.
Thus, they are desperate for a deal.
Bullet points made by Matt Morse in the first 4m on YT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7aqE95Vu7w
Plus, another 10m background.
TJ…’Do you know that US Navy minesweepers are not designed for mine sweeping?’
What *were* they designed for?
@ John Galt III
It is weird, but the distant electron spin doesn’t “switch”, it had a mixed state, neither up nor down. Same with the measured electron, measurement puts it in the up or down state. The entangled pair cannot be treated independently, that would violate the conservation of angular momentum, so the theory must work that way to conform to the known laws of physics. Note that for the near particle state to be communicated to the distant observer takes place at the speed of light at best, so relativity isn’t violated, but there is a correlation between the two measurements even though they look independent to the observers making the measurements. It’s still weird, but perhaps less so.
It is the measurement process that is complicated. QM posits that measurement reduces to an Hermitian operator, but that is only true a priori for energy, where it is required for unitary evolution of the system. The rest seems to be an emergent behavior when the measured system becomes entangled with the measurement apparatus. There are recent experiments exploring the emergence of that property by using smaller and smaller measurement systems.
I am not an expert, but that is my current understanding.
David Foster asks about US minesweepers.
So far, only destroyers have been deployed, two or three. These are ships designed to be speedy.
Wiki explains “In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.” Such as aircraft carriers.
The YT channel mentions that maybe three types of dedicated minesweepers have been decommissioned recently, and as late as last year.
I believe there is new technology that may be added to the mix
(eg, aerial laser detection). Plus, a couple of Euro-nations (UK and France?) are sending dedicated minesweepers.
Whatever happens, it may be a real medium-term problem, even though a main channel may be declared safe soon.
One wild card is simply that mines will drift with the currents and tides. Another one is that Iran has used non-metallic mines that can only be detected visually.
What surprised me in the clip is that speedy Sea-Doo style Wave Runners will also be used to sweep the sea for mines — closer to shore, one imagines.
We do have ships that have been fitted for minesweeping duties.
-Grok
The Navy turned the Littoral Combat Ship into a minehunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2-Z1hSNhXs
I gather the old minesweepers that were just decommissioned last fall wouldn’t have been used in the Strait anyway, because they didn’t have defensive capabilities against missiles/drones.
Apparently the Independence class ships aren’t ready to be tested in combat.
BrianE:
Unfortunately the Little Crappy Ships (LCS) ( see cdrsalamander on substack) are not capable of much of anything, a failure of naval transformation (hubris). IIRC their minesweepering capability is dubious, they are mechanically unreliable, and basically lemons.
NEWS MAKER-Before 8PM Tuesday night, Zerohedge posted this headline in a long long post:
Crediting WSJ, “Over 20 US-Approved Ships Pass Through Hormuz, As Trump Eyes Jump-Starting Next Pakistan Peace Talks” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-mulls-hormuz-shipping-pause-preserve-talks-avoid-trump-blockade-showdown-us
The long piece sums up as meaning that many wheels are in motion.
AMAZING IF TRUE! Because before this the max number of ships going through in weeks past was 13 ships, as far as I can tell.
How will the TDS world spin THIS Trump triumph?
Refunds UP 11% to average of $3500!! More benefits of the Big Beautiful Bill – – VIDEO **Updated**
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/04/refunds-up-11-to-average-of-3500-more.html
Thee are a lot of scientifically/mathematically based YouTube discussions/presentations which I don’t understand at all, and a lot of them are at Curt Jaimungal’s website, like these *
I appears that unless you have a good education in/grasp of higher mathematics and physics you can’t really understand what they are trying to convey.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIIr33li5Cs
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZ3Kto6NIc&t=75s