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OMG! Google The EPR Paradox

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But only if you enjoy science. And mystery. And spookiness. And Puzzles. And want to be awed.

For nearly 60 years there has been a huge schism in scientific thought between Classical Physics (CP) and Quantum Mechanics (QM).

CP is the study of things we see and hear and touch, basically. Newton’s first law of motion, for example, paraphrased: a resting apple will not move until some force makes it move, like gravity to make it fall from a tree or William Tell placing the apple on his son’s head. (PS google that story, when you get time.)

It is through CP we understand our world, and invent things to make life easier, faster, and deadlier.

But as scientists drill deeper into the HOW of CP, the nuts and bolts, the Understanding Train goes a little off the rails. With the modern ability to see and measure sub-atomic particles, CP’s Laws tend to not apply to the world of QM with its Quarks and Qbits. In fact, the inhabitants of the QM world often act exactly the opposite of what the CP “laws” predict. One of the most intriguing disparities is the aptly named “Quantum Entanglement” (QE), a physical event so amazingly outside the CP Laws, Einstein called it “a spooky action at a distance”. Summarized for those without extensive scientific experience, “Quantum Entanglement” is when two different things (at the subatomic level or QBits’) communicate with each other over great distances with no known CP connection. In theory, but as yet unproven for obvious reasons, a pair of Qbits can theoretically communicate instantly when one is locked in a safe in Omaha and the other is embedded in Orion’s Belt. I’ll wait while you ponder Orion’s Belt is 800 LIGHT YEARS away.

QE has been proven in labs, but is hard to prove in the real world due to Schrodinger’s Cat issues and thre are no subatomic measuring devices on Mintaka (google it). If this phenomenon is true, it makes a mockery of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity notion about the speed of light (186,282 miles per second) being the fastest speed in the universe, which could change all the ways we calculate space and time. Orion’s Belt 800 LIGHT YEARS away can be reached instantly by two, communicating Qbits. In case you didn’t know it, one light years is 6 TRILLION MILES!

To revisit a past column: I am awe struck. Astounded. Amazed. and still trying to learn more. QE and the whole subatomic world, are Matrix-like mysteries, and have given rise to theories about the very nature of existence. Yay.

I sure hope they get some answers before I fly off into the beyond…or will I…?

PS Thank God for the internet…the smart parts…

Aged versus Aging: A Gas Tank Analogy

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If you are young or youngish, don’t read any more of this crap. This is a lament, not a rant, and its subtleties can only be understood by someone well over the legal drinking/ranting age.

This place is called The Aging Man for a reason. It’s not titled The Old Man. Or The Soon to be Dead Man. Its about aging and coming to grips with a force of nature bigger and larger than life and the universe and all of existence. It’s a great place for hyperbole, too.

See, when you’re old, you are done aging. Aging is the process of growing old. When you’re old, you’re old, and the process is over. Done. Kaput. Finite, the French kind.

At birth we are given a symbolic, mythical gas tank. It isn’t tangible, but its real. From birth to about age 30, the gas tank is full. It is loaded at birth with hope, promise, happiness, invincibility, and similar crap. This full tank of crap fuels our life as we mature and learn what life is really about, and what our futures will be like. We have enough gas to make several detours and be able to backtrack to where we started, and start again.

At age 30, the gas starts to run out. We sense it as we struggle with careers, family, fitness, all the important things we care about. Since we have no gas gauge, we don’t care, yet.

By age 60, it takes a little finagling, choking to start us every morning and we sometimes sputter at high speeds. This is when we begin to wonder what the heck is going on, and the gas gauge becomes visible. This is when we start to really feel the process.

We still have plenty of time and gas before we get old, but with each year the vision of the gas gauge gets clearer and clearer, and with each year that vision gets bleaker and bleaker.

And then we get old. Finally. The tank is nearly empty, just vapors left. Fumes. It’s hard to start in the morning, we can’t go fast, and we can’t go long distances. Things like grand-kids and our favorite team winning the Superbowl give us a half gallon or so of refill, but we see it, we know, it, and we learn to cherish it. We learn, too, no matter what we did the tank is empty with no gas station in site. Or in existence. The only comfort? We are not alone in the process. It happens to everyone.

It’s 2am in the morning and this is what I write? It might be time to change the title of this place.

Democrats and Republicans Unite!

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It’s 7pm, June 13, 2024 and I was tucking myself in for a good nights sleep (until my first urination break) when the news hit my phone. Honestly, it is a beautiful 80 degree, dry, clear night in Upstate New York, one of those magical nights you won’t get in the south, so I really wasn’t going to sleep…just hanging out in my open window and if sleep came…blessed be the Lord. No tucking in, in other words.

That’s why the phone wasn’t off so I heard the news: Elon Musk is paying himself $48 billion dollars for his efforts this year. Hang tight, while I go throw up.

Can he now say he has more money than God? An even sadder part of the story was the reporting that over 340 CEOS paid themselves record wages this, year. RECORD WAGES. THIS YEAR.

If there is anyone reading this who knows where all this CEO pay is coming from, raise your hand. People who make this kind of money (or people who aspire to), will tell you he’s worth it. Musk’s shareholders, for example, APPROVED the pay by vote. Wonder how much of $48 billion goes back to them? Or what would have happened to those who voted against it?

It is the consummate Capitalist F*@&-you, from a part of our society who cares about NO ONE, not a liberal or conservative, Dem or Repub, racist or homophobe or Christian or Atheist, or…correction. Musk cares about us all because we are where the money is coming from. He needs us.

But he needs us a certain way. He needs us to consume and not ask questions, not wonder how much something is really worth. All the Teslas burning and being recalled? They don’t matter much. Might have cost him a few million in compensation, but who cares?

It is important to declare Musk is (probably) not doing anything illegal. Just taking advantage of a system we could all benefit from if we are as greedy, selfish, and egotistical as he is, and as are most billionaires. They see the American Public (and the world) as dollar signs, as sheep to be fleeced.

And we are a very easy population to fleece, as long as we focus on and argue about homosexuality, transgenderism, racism, religions under attack, elections being stolen. Next time you argue with someone who you think is bad for America, be sure to put your hands in your pockets so the CEOS can’t pick your pocket as you make your political points

If someone on the right or the left of the political spectrum wants to lose their mind over a conspiracy, try to figure out why anyone in the world could get away with paying himself $48 billion FOR ONE YEAR and not hear a peep about it.

Again, where, and on who, will a lot of the $48billion be spent. You could buy almost anything.