When it’s hundreds of millions and billions of people, it’s not so much culture and politics, as it’s biology and physics. The world is breaking down across the spectrum in ways that will combine to defeat our usual tactic of patching problems as they arise, rather than the much more…

What if we just look at it simply? Mass contracts, aka. gravity. Radiation expands, aka, light. Our measures of contracting space, GR, are based on measures of mass. Our measures of expanding space are based on radiation, aka, spectral. So space contracts into galaxies and expands between them. …

Why the cracks go to the foundations. Our politicians prefer playing cowboys and Indians on the other side of the planet, while the country falls apart and puberty has been deemed a fascist plot. What gives? We tend to look at all the problems in isolation, but the crazies seem…

There are angels and assholes in all creeds and colors. The trick is to understand the roles they play. In a lifetime of trying to make sense of human events, it long ago occurred to me there are basic patterns and processes running through all the details, so it seemed…

Will we understand? The mid term elections broke about as evenly between the two parties as is possible. This undercuts the crazies on both extremes. While the loudest are the ones with the most simplistic views, the fact is life and society exists in the tension between tradition and renewal…

Objective consideration of multiple sources and perspectives is rapidly becoming heretical. It is not like this is a new phenomena, but several generations have passed with these levels of partisanship confined to the fringes. Now polarization has become the rule. At least among those in any positions of power and…

Debating what is baggage If various politicians and pundits have their way, we are sliding into World War 3. Does that open your mind to questioning the culture leading us up to this point, or will you cling ever more tightly to the beliefs around which our world is based? …

What is going on? The West can blow up other countries left and right, but somehow we are the moral overlords when it comes to other countries doing anything remotely similar. Was everyone really born yesterday? When it’s millions and billions of people, it’s not so much culture and politics…

Seeing Infinity When the James Webb Space Telescope is fully operational, it will begin resolving the details of ever further galaxies out of the haze of the cosmic background radiation and those on the edge, currently described as young galaxies, because only the highest, bluest frequencies are visible to current observations, will…