David Custis Kimball - blog
You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've a two talented kids; the younger said, 'Stop with the lectures.' Then asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later, Me: 'OK, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday.
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Physics, History, Science, Art, Environment
Somehow, I’m going back to the ‘me getting a hoof in the cheek’ story. Imagine the quantum effects of the hoof as both a particle and a wave. A wave seems bigger and if you’re immersed in it, it moves your entire body. A particle, like a bullet, is concentrated on a particular target. Now with a bullet, the particle leads the wave, and so the entry hole is much smaller than the exit. Sometimes, like in a wing of an airplane as it approaches ground, there’s a cushion effect; I’d like to say that that’s a wave leading the particle. My point is on a macro scale, it can go either way: particle or wave first. On the nano or mega scale, when time becomes slowed down just as the particle ‘hits’, then the wave has a chance to approach and pushes the target farther away, and this dance goes on until the target ‘decides’ it’s best position for survival or not.
Now I’m seeing this as a convection force of moist water vapor as it ascends, loses energy, condenses to water drop which heats it up and it ascends some more, condenses until if finally reaches a cold environment where it all condenses and falls. All this movement from grand gas to pointed drops creates ‘wind’ and waves it’s atomic particles about to push and pull the environment, from particle to wave and so on…
So what if Quantum Physics is just ‘physics’, where it gets really difficult to say because of velocities when something shifts from particle to wave, but everything does all the time, everywhere?
A new ‘lens’ for looking at quantum behavior
At the heart of quantum theory is the idea that objects in the quantum worldwill sometimes behave like particles, and other times behave like waves. This ability to combine exclusive properties is called a quantum superpositionand is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics.
Duality has been the foundation of many ongoing debates in the physics community, the most famous of which was between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Ultimately the issue physicists face is that you can’t observe both wave-like and particle-like properties with a single apparatus.
Terno and Ionicioiu have tried to tackle this issue by asking - what if when performing experiments, parts of the apparatus are absent and present at the same time. What the researchers propose is that you can select the property being tested (wave or particle) even after the test is performed.
Known as a delayed-choice experiment, the photon in this experiment shows a “morphing” between “particle” and “wave,” supporting the conclusion that these properties are not inherent, but merely a reflection on how we “look” at it.
“Unlike the traditional approach, in this quantum-controlled experiment a single set-up is used to measure complementary behaviors, and they are revealed by matching the data about a photon with the data about the apparatus. What we find is that behavior is in the eye of the observer, ” Terno summarizes.
Quantum Physics just blows the mind, doesn’t it?
Einstein was right: space and time bend | Science | The Observer
History, Science, Dance, Art
I’ve heard of this comparison to a bowling ball on a trampoline as the sun in space, and then the momentum of the planets based on their mass ‘attracted’ to the sun, when actually compelled to fall into the sun.
It’s the slowing down of time that has me comparing this to the time I was wholloped in the jaw by ‘Midnight Magic’ a hackney pony. I called it ‘neutrino time’ when I had just enough time to turn my head to the left (and sufficient to decide that was the best way to turn it as had I turned it the other way, my neck would have been broken as I was crossed to the force of the shoed hoof) so as to avoid the full wrath of the intended force. The effect was ‘time slowed down’ as our masses interacted, or as they approached that asymptote of connection. It may well have not been a linear slowing but a geometric one where it slowed the most as it was nearest to my face.
And now to the magic of the dance. As we revolve around one another, we can experience all the excitement of extending time in a kind of ‘gravity-free’ force field. We seem unrestricted by a force imposed upon us (our partner) and then as we get closer time is extended, magically, and perhaps equalized as we get farther away and so there is a zero sum gain.
Anyway, controlling motion, time and space might be a big smile producer. I’d say, find someone and go dance with them to feel sure.
Food, Humor
‘Sometimes you feel like a nut’, and if you’re custard, the best you can be is a coconut. From long ago and faraway shriveled grapes ‘raisin’ d’etre, well dried in California, son.
Killer quick coconut custard. Vegetarian (not vegan), 100% gluten free and massively healthy. Ok, here you go. This will take you 4 minutes total to get into the oven!
4 eggs
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp Ginger (I used much more!)
2 cups coconut milk (a tin can full is what you need, about 14oz)
1/2 cup honey
2 tsp vanilla extractand a handful or two of shredded coconut if you’d like.
Whisk it all up and bake in a pie pan at 350 for about 30 minutes or till it’s all “set”….(mine took a bit longer)… When it’s cool it’s like a crustless coconut cream pie—— amazing! And soooooo easy!Because you can cook, really you can.
When Martin Luther King Jr. made history at UChicago | The University of Chicago
History, Theology, UncommonSense, Thugology
Some of the last words he spoke of at U. of Chicago in 1966. King believed and spoke over and over of equal rights which meant civil rights, not special rights, not superior rights and certainly not ‘rights of a brothers’ keeper’.
King was a conservative, a Christian, and would not approve of late term abortion upon demand and funded by an ever increasing tax burden to destroy the fabric of morality and equal justice.
King began his ministry after serving in WWII and defending our nation from those who would abort, have special privilege, murder innocents and enslave in the name of ‘God is with us’. ”Gott mit Uns’ is not the Christian god; it is the Allah of hatred and Thugology, prejudice and had harkened back to much of the original Martin Luther biases of antisemitism in establishing Jewish ghettos in Germany, especially and an overall hatred of the poor and a bias that they were being punished by God. He must have struck a chord with the past early church when it helped the founding of Islam and wrote the Qaran for the illiterate, murderous Mohammed. It was the fire and brimstone fear which was so evoked by the corruption of the Pope, the Borgeas family where orgies were scheduled just after Mass by his illegitimate daughter and sons, but still kept the faith of the poor.
King, too was breaking through the histories of so much misdirection and false guidance of both protestant and catholic faiths. Some of these things are now just being perceived, but too many even now so misused and misdirected.
Black Box Voting : (USA) - 10/11: AMERICANSELECT.ORG = TROJAN HORSE, EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS -
History, UncommonSenseVsCommoNonsense, Law+Lawless
As we have ‘early voting’, ‘conditional voting’, and all sorts of other voting, there become too many moving targets too many walnut shells hiding one pea, ie honesty. Rhymes too.
Humor, Thugology, History
Obama agrees with Muslims’ and the UN’s wish to vanquish any criticism of Islam as criticism is by fiat to every Islamist ‘inciteful’ and an excuse to murder by cursing Freedom to Hell. That’s insightful and ironic. Which shows the true nature of Islam as not a ‘religion’, and certainly not a ‘religion of peace’, but a world-conquering form of fascism, eager to dictate to the world.
Would you expect anything less than that from the illegal son of a Kenyan Islamic socialist?
Quantum physics says goodbye to reality
Physics, Mathematics, Humor
Does that mean that no sound is made in the forest by falling trees unless we are there to hear it. Or maybe just a bacterium?
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Some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. This is why many have proposed more complete theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by extra “hidden variables”. Now physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that focus on realism — giving the uneasy consequence that reality does not exist when we are not observing it (Nature 446 871).
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Theology, Humor, Parenting, Art, History
Out of the mouth of babes. You bet. Believe.
From the prophetic Psalms of David, here 8:2 from Thomson Bible ‘From the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise, on account of thine enemies (on account) of destroying and enemy and a revenger.’ And continuing - ‘…what is man that thou shouldst be mindful of him, or a son of man that thou shouldst visit him! Thou madest him a little lower than angels, with glory and honour thou hast crowned him, and set him over the works of they hands.’ 8:4-6
If you cannot imagine these babes as ‘a little lower than angels, with glory and honour’, then you might think you could dismiss the ancient Jewish prophecy texts and abandon Jesus’s claim that he came to ‘fulfill, not destroy.’ (Matt 5:17ff) Then you are no Christian and you become lost even as a Jew…so pick it up, man and walk that easy road, that road made easy and witnessed by the likes of these ‘babes and sucklings’
And I think this is another Martin Luther King moment to remind us of Jesus’s sacrifice, not MLK’s; but celebrate MLK’s dream that we like children who understand each day what parents do to keep their children safe, or what they should do, and quell the fears that children and we all have of doing enough to sustain our positive belief in our safety and mankind’s justice by putting the ‘Presumption of Innocence’ above all other beliefs.
It is children who so deeply cherish kindness, love, warmth, magic, fantasy, grace. How thankful should we all be that children as they are shown kindness truly rejoice in it. Carefully look at each of these children who have believed, not suspended disbelief, but feel in their hearts that of a loving power that we now understand has finally made the ultimate sacrifice of giving life and then taking it away in order that man and every man may see what Martin Luther King could dream that we could live in peace and understanding not of how difficult it was but how ‘easy’.
Even as so many of us and all at times perhaps have doubted how sacrificing a wonderful counselor, prince of peace, healer and self proclaimed son of the word made flesh, ’Lord of heaven and Earth’, can heal man’s every past and future sin, easily, if only we believe, and yet we stumble, isn’t it miraculous just to see these children rejoice in the belief that someone has given so much for their safety and wellbeing. Would you want to take that away? And would you want to take away innocence without proof of the contrary? Would you, like the learned of the time, abandon justice for the most bitter reality?
Then he (Jesus) began to upbraid the cities in which the most of his miracles had been done, because they had not reformed.’ Matthew 11:20 Thomson Bible
…Jesus took occasion to say, I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth; that thou having hid these things from the wise and prudent, has revealed them to babes.’ Matt11:25
So, ‘Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.’ Matt 11:29
(this post was inspired in part by Tebow; I watched the Patriot - Broncos game, biggest in 18 years of viewship. My first game of the season. It was as Tebow said, ‘only a game’. He understands sacrifice, and he remains exhalted in many minds. Bravo.
History, Science, Chemistry, Medicine, Humor
I saw this show last night on PBS and it really opened my appreciation for Linus Pauling. I have his General Chemistry book and am always impressed with the visual presentation. My days in chemistry were back in the slide rule days and I never took Physical Chemistry, which was much of Pauling’s work.
On M.L. King’s Day, here’s a man who also had a dream, and like King’s photographer, who was white, King didn’t think color was the issue. I didn’t realize Pauling’s profound influence on nuclear nonproliferation, with associated underground and now ‘virtual testing’, except for rogues like N. Korea, and its allies.
The only man to win two Nobel Prizes as an individual. And orthochemical medicines, including vitamin C is an important issue, but it lacks a method of measuring how much your body needs when. Imagine a small device that would sample urine, saliva, and maybe occasionally blood (like diabetics do) and this would tell you which vitals you were low on. Vitals are common items like Vitamins and minerals. This would avoid the risk of taking too much, which might inhibit, and in the case of Vitamin E, has been accuse of inhibiting your natural production.
I can only imagine how drug companies would try to divert this effort, similar to the way drug companies have diverted breastfeeding by asking, or having their agent doctors ask, ‘Does little baby have a bowel movement daily?’ Of course uninformed breastfeeding mothers would say ‘no’. Breastmilk is so well absorbed that BM’s are only every few days. The doctor would say coyly, ‘Well do you think baby is getting enough to eat?’ That’s enough to plant the virus in her mind, and especially any servant’s mind so that they would start to supplement the breastmilk, and soon the baby doesn’t demand as much breastmilk and mom’s supply diminishes…. Mission accomplished. Baby is hooked on a $3000 per year habit, which compromises its immune system and retards its development.
So my advice is to take some vitamin C, not too much, but instead of fruit juice, especially Minutemade or Tropicana which uses Brazilian concentrate which has a carcenogenic fungicide sprayed on the fruit, one that is illegal in the USA. (see prior blog entry).
Also look at the hardships that Linus Pauling dealt with in growing up without a dad, who died early in his life and left him with a mom who had serious problems. He totally availed himself of all the opportunities of public education and pursued many with passion. He was also very lucky to find someone who was so devoted to him, and wisely he married her.
It’s a great story; and a great story of grace, hard work and faith in miraculous ideas for the improvement of all of us. I kinda think Linus and Martin are ‘mixing it up’ , like baking soda and vinegar, but having fun.
Design, Real Estate, Mathematics, Humor
Note that for 3 sides, internal angles total 180, 4 at 360, 5 sides for 540, and 6 at 720 degrees. So making a container with those angles and numbers of cuts becomes rather a geometric mash-up. Cut up a circle in 3 equal portions gives us 120 degrees each, half of what is need for a hexagonal container, and if you cut the circle 6 times, you can make 2 triangle containers.
A lot to think about Mr. Cordwoody, there in the lower right picture.
Peter Marigold’s furniture design series Split is based on one simple geometric principle:
The inverted angles of a shape split into pieces will always add up to 360 degrees. The angles can be interchanged but will always form a whole.
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Where the Trees Are : Image of the Day
Environment, History, Science, UncommonSense, Medicine, Hazard Mitigation
A beautiful map and a critical and essential activity that ‘government’ should provide as it relates to ‘protection’ of its people. Instead of the Gore induced crap that like politics is about greed and self aggrandizement.
An ‘Urban Forester’ would be a valid worker for a city to trim and expand its treescape. There is far too much wasted on lawns and annual plantings. Even low bushes and trees would be far better for the environment as well as provide habitat for some wild animals, rabbits, squirrels, etc. and not require watering or other chemicals to ‘beautify’.
The Hal Lindsey Report - The Hal Lindsey Report: 1-13-2012
History, Theology, Thugology, Law+Lawlessness
My uncle, a well known corporate attorney in Chicago reminded to never say ‘I don’t know…’ . Rather say ‘I know not’… Never admit that you are ignorant to whatever you are discussing. A practical positive is then necessary to maintain ones own respect for oneself, regardless of others.
Land for Peace. If there is no peace, then land should not be in play. By not recognizing ones right to exist, why would you give them an estate where they can worship to the alter of your demise?
As careful what you wish for so too be careful what you grant as another’s wish.
Americans drinking pesticide for breakfast
Hazard Mitigation, Parenting, Medicine, Food, Law+Lawless
If Brazil puts a fungicide on oranges, and these oranges are then squeezed into juice, peel and all, which is the case, be sure not to buy any concentrate juices from Brazil.
Stop using all pesticides, selecticides and herbicides until it is proven that what you are using is safe. Even fertilizers can contain fillers and heavy metals and poisons that kill. Forget growing a lawn… allow the ‘weeds’ to bloom and attract bees. I do.
Thanks, Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris for the ‘bottoms up’.
Defiant Ahmadinejad wins backing of four LatAm allies
History, Humor, Law+Lawless, Thugology
Don’t you love it. Peacefully develop nuclear weapons is ok. It’s all in the words, or wrist or ‘all’s fair in love and war’, and Iran is by their words at war with USA and Israel. One of the few good things that Jack Kennedy did was prevent USSR from installing missiles in Cuba.
It’s important to remember the names of those small people who support evil, but think that they have deniability. They do not. The monster ‘man unkind’ lurks always in the shadow. Look carefully.
Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, designed by E. Fay Jones and constructed in 1980.
Real Estate, Design, History, Humor
Eureka Springs is also a site where the Passion Play is enacted yearly, in the tradition of Ommeramergau(sp), Germany. The German city was spared during the Black Plague of the 1400’s and so in honor of their grace received they initiated the Passion Play annually. Sure beats any Broadway run, some 600 years.
At U of Ark, Fayetteville campus when I was there studying Elec. engineering in the late 1970’s, I came across a geodesic structure made from 20 sheets of plywood. At about 200 sq. ft., it was almost $1 per s.f. cost for a decent structure. Would make nice emergency structure. There’s a lot about Arkansas which evokes images and ideas of ‘Arkishness’. Halaluyah.
