The Perpetual Universe is a Yin-Yang Universe

The perpetual universe, constantly rejuvenating itself is a Yin-Yang universe where two processes feed each other eternally. The waste product of one is the fuel for the other, and visa versa.

The concept of entropy is meaningless in such a universe. There is no waste that cannot be reused. Should one process exhaust itself completely there is a hundred percent certainty that the other process will start it up again.

Moons, planets, stars and galaxies radiate energy and matter out into space. This radiation forms currents. The currents collapse, forming new galaxies with stars, planets and moons. The process is never-ending.

The perpetual universe

Entropy and the Universe

The universe is a closed system by definition. This means that the laws of thermodynamics can be directly applied to it:

1. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
2. Energy will ultimately exhaust in useless entropy unless there is reversibility of process.

From this we have to conclude that any perpetual universe has to include reversibility to avoid an ultimate death through increasing entropy.

The perpetual universe is in other words a closed ideal system, also per definition.

Galaxy evolution from birth and death

Enabling and Empowering the Religion of Pieces

Without fail, the month of Jihad ends up way more peaceful than expected. Apart from the odd harassment and mass murder, very little terrorism occur. Clearly, the strict followers of the religion of pieces are far fewer than they appear to be. Out of millions of followers, only a handful blow themselves up or shoot randomly into crowds.

The number of murderous incidents would be way lower still if it was not for its enablers, handing over cash and resources, opening up borders, and generally encouraging the worst of the worst to fulfill their twisted fantasy of entering the great brothel in the sky.

Terrorism is not free. It takes time and money to build a suicide bomb. Without welfare handouts from the state, and the protection of social justice warriors and political correctness, the aspiring whore house resident would have had much more pressing issues to deal with than how to assemble a nail bomb.

The true problem is not with Islam. As vile and nasty a philosophy it is, it is not in itself able to generate terror. It needs dedicated politicians, state agents and volunteers to ensure that the suicide bombers are properly cared for. Without the political elite of the west, Islam would be nothing but a backward looking ideology.

Only with the dedicated work by our overlords, enabling and empowering the aspiring nut job, has the terror of Islam come to our doorstep. Only when these self appointed overlords are captured and neutralized will the terror that they have enabled subside.

UN Office of Humanitarian Coordinator, Baghdad

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No Evidence of Subduction Anywhere

All over our planet, there are rifts where continental plates separate. These are easy to find, and the rate of expansion can be exactly measured. However, there is no evidence of the opposite happening. The so called subduction process is nowhere to be seen. It is assumed to exist in certain places, but never seen or measured. Yet with rifts opening up at a rate of several centimeters a year, subduction should be as plentiful as rifts, and they should be easy to spot.

The absence of any evidence for subduction leads us to the conclusion that our planet must be expanding.

Expanding Earth seen from the south pole

Ramadan - the Month of Jihad

Ramadan is the holy month of Jihad. A month of devotion to the one and true Allah.

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” - Omar Ahmad (founder of the Council for American Islamic Relations)

Electrical Craters

A quote that caught my eye in this article about Jupiter:

"On the rest of the planet, storms are divided into iconic bands. At the poles, though, it looks like a hodgepodge of meteor craters."

Well, guess what? Most "meteor craters" are not from meteors, but scars from ongoing electrical activity. Storms too are electrical in nature. The round scars seen on our Moon and storms on our planet are two manifestations of the same phenomenon.

Electric cratering on our Moon

Perception vs. Reality

With Bitcoin going up in price by about 10% a day, the dominant perception is clearly one of great optimism. People expect great things. The belief is that it is a superior currency, that it is convenient, cheap to use, and secure.

However, reality is quite different. Using Bitcoin is not convenient. To buy a product in Bitcoin, we first have to buy Bitcoin in an exchange. Instead of buying a product directly, we have to add this extra step.

The merchant selling products in Bitcoin must constantly adjust prices due to its wild price fluctuations. The products on offer are bough using fiat, so even if they are listed in Bitcoin, the price is actually set in fiat. To minimize risk, the merchant has to exchange any incoming Bitcoins for fiat as soon as possible.

A Bitcoin transaction includes in other words both a purchase of Bitcoin and a sale of Bitcoin. The price spread between offer and supply must therefore be added to the transaction cost. That makes Bitcoin easily one of the most expensive ways to buy anything. It is also one of the slowest ways to perform an electronic transaction. It takes about 20 minutes to complete a transaction at current volumes. With higher volumes, completing a transaction will take even longer.

Furthermore, the perception that Bitcoin transactions can be made in complete privacy is false. Personal details are revealed whenever Bitcoins are bought or sold, and any product bought will have to be sent to an address. There's nothing private about this.

Nor is Bitcoin particularly safe. Mt. Gox is a vivid example of this. But even without the kind of fraud that happened at Mt. Gox, using Bitcoin is unsafe. With hardly any price stability there is a very real risk that the price of Bitcoin will change dramatically during the hour or so that it takes to complete the full fiat-Bitcoin-fiat cycle.

Clearly, there is a great disconnect between perception and reality when it comes to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

A piece of brass pretending to be a store of value

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Backed by Nothing?

To say that a currency is backed by nothing is always wrong. All currencies, however strange and exotic, are backed by something. At the very least, it is backed by a perception of convenience.

Bitcoin and other "unbacked" cryptocurrencies are in fact backed by their perceived convenience and superiority over state-mandated fiat currencies. They also have a very practical value in commerce involving contraband, and in money laundering and capital control avoidance.

State-mandated fiat currencies are backed by the full weight of law, People unable to pay their taxes in the currency of the land risk punishment by relentless state agents. It is also a convenient means of exchange. In cash form it even serves as a reasonably convenient vehicle for commerce in contraband, money laundering and capital control avoidance.

Gold too is backed by something. It is backed primarily by the jewelry industry, but also by engineering. As a conductor of heat and electricity, gold is way superior to copper. Gold will therefore always be priced significantly higher than copper.

While gold in itself is fairly inconvenient as a currency, any currency backed by gold will have the advantages of gold in addition to whatever convenience the currency itself has as a means of exchange. If such a currency attains the same convenience as cryptocurrencies, it will in the long run outperform all cryptocurrencies.

Given that "unbacked" cryptocurrencies have no other value than their convenience, it is inevitable that they will all go to zero once a gold backed currency, with the same convenience as a medium of exchange, manages to establish a foothold.

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Finding the Price Floor

The mighty US consumer is maxed out on credit. Everyone is in debt to up over their heads. The credit fueled expansion of the past eight years has come to its end. So much is known, but how will things go from here? Will there be price deflation on everything, or will there be stagflation?

To answer this, we can start from the premise that things tend towards their price floors in periods of economic contraction.

For commodities, the price floor lies somewhere below the production cost, and for real estate, the same is true. For shares, the price floor depends on the profitability of companies. Companies that make a profit have price floors somewhere below the value of their assets. Companies that make no profit will go to zero.

Debt and derivatives have price floors determined by their underlying assets. If the lender is bankrupt, the debt and derivatives are worthless.

This suggests that price deflation is what we will see. However, price deflation presumes that fiat currency is somehow disconnected from the same mechanism that governs the price of everything else. That's wrong. Fiat currency is a derivative of debt, so there is a price floor for fiat currency, just like there is a price floor for derivatives in general.

Fiat currency will tend towards its price floor, which is determined by the solvency of the debtors. These are the state and the consumer, both insolvent due to excessive debt.

What we will see is that everything, including fiat currency will move towards its price floor. Things that have far to fall, will fall in price relative to fiat currencies, while things that are already close to their price floors will rise in price.

Food and other essentials will become more expensive relative to fiat. Real estate, shares and bonds will fall in price relative to fiat. Industrial commodities will become marginally more expensive despite being overproduced. Monetary metals like gold and silver on the other hand will see prices skyrocketing.

The reason monetary metals will go up in price is that they are the least bad alternative among financial assets. When real estate, shares and bonds all fall faster than gold and silver, fiat currency will start pouring into these metals. When essentials like food, soap and toilet paper starts going up in price relative to everything else, people will start hoarding domestic essentials. However, there is a limit to how much of this stuff can be hoarded, and that's when the hoarders shift their attention to precious metals.

Gold and silver will outperform the price inflation of essentials, and this will not stop before there is a reset of the whole financial system.

Gravity and Lightning

If gravity is electrical in nature, then a lightning strike might be sufficient to change the gravity in its immediate vicinity. The change would be short lived since Earth is an excellent conductor, but for an instance the enormous discharge/charge resulting from a lightning strike might produce a measurable result.

Ground to cloud discharges should produce a momentary dip in the gravitational field while cloud to ground discharges should produce a momentary peek.

By Griffinstorm - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

A Brutal Lesson in Valuation

Value is subjective. Everything is worth what the mad is prepared to pay. However, this is not to say that prices have no bearing on reality. For everything, there are objective measures that can be used to ascertain its proper price range relative to other goods.

Goods that have desirable characteristics are more valuable than those that don't. We may disagree on the exact price of a good, but if we agree that one thing has more desirable qualities than another thing, then we know that the proper order is to value the more desirable one over the less desirable one.

To say that a good has more value because it lacks a certain desirable quality is nonsense. However, that exact argument is surprisingly common when it comes to cryptocurrencies. People will argue that Bitcoin is more valuable than gold based money because Bitcoin is not convertible into gold.

This makes no sense at all. However, it is relatively easy to see how to arrive at this erroneous conclusion.

Let's say that Bitcoin was constructed exactly as it is today, but that it came with a promise that every Bitcoin could be exchanged for 1 gram of gold if delivered at a certain office. Such a construct would simply guarantee that a Bitcoin would never fall below the price of 1 gram of gold. But the perception among most people would be that the price should not exceed 1 gram of gold by much either.

The erroneous perception would most likely have held Bitcoin back from its astronomical rise. If a Bitcoin was tied to 1 gram of gold, why pay thousands of dollars for it?

The error in thinking is that the mention of 1 gram of gold is perceived as the sum total of the value, while money has the additional value of convenience. A gold backed Bitcoin would be worth 1 gram of gold + convenience, which is more than 0 gram of gold + convenience.

Should the Bitcoin bubble burst due to a perceived lack of convenience, a gold backed Bitcoin would find a price floor at 1 gram of gold. However, Bitcoin has no backing of any kind, so its price floor is zero.

This simple fact is completely overlooked at the moment, but is likely to come as a brutal lesson in valuation for all the hopefuls out there, thinking their Bitcoins will go ever higher in value precisely because it has no backing.

Bitcoin will one day crash down to its price floor due to competition or for other reasons, and people will discover the hard way that Bitcoin's price floor is zero. Gold on the other hand will never go to zero because it has real value as jewelry and in engineering. There will always be someone out there willing to take your gold in exchange for something else.

Brass token backed by nothing

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Dinosaur Migration Routes

Dinosaurs did not only live under reduced gravity, they lived on a smaller planet. They could migrate from California to China without any problem because there was no Pacific ocean separating the Americas from Asia.

Earth's expansion seen from the south pole

Beatings and Murder

President Erdogan of Turkey goes to the US and calmly watches on as his bodyguard thugs beat up peaceful American demonstrators. President Trump goes to Saudi-Arabia to sell them billions of dollar worth of weapons.

Clearly, politicians are nothing but a bunch of gangsters, and they are not even trying to hide it.

"The state is a gang of thieves writ large — the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society" - Murray Rothbard

Murray Rothbard

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Tabby’s Star

It is said to be the weirdest star in our galaxy. It dims up to 20% at random times and for random duration, and no one has any clear idea why. Explanations include swarms of comets and super-structures made by alien life-forms. But the rather obvious explanation that it may be the star itself dimming and brightening doesn't appear on the list. Why not?

If stars are externally powered, as some people believe, then stars in unstable electrical environments will dim and brighten just as observed.

Artist impression of Tabby's star

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Under Capitalism the Consumer is King

In a free market, the producers of goods are always at the mercy of the consumer. The capitalist can only survive by satisfying the needs and desires of the consumer. A capitalist that fails to satisfy the consumer is soon out of business. Under capitalism, the consumer is king, and the producer is his servant.

Secession is Always a Good Thing

Secession gives the ordinary man in the street more choice. Instead of one place to live, secession gives him the choice of two places. Further secession gives him even more choice.

And for those interested in logic:

"Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?"

- Murray Rothbard

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Who Killed Seth Rich

Most people don't even know who Seth Rich was. We might as well ask "Who is John Galt?"

Nobody seems to care. After all, he worked for the DNC, so why should his murder be of interest to journalists? He leaked confidential information to WikiLeaks. He clearly deserved to die. An investigation would only serve to implicate Clinton, and it would not help the all important effort to mold public opinion against Russia so that we can have a great war.

Hillary Clinton

By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

The Origin of Value

Value is subjective. That much is true for sure. Without subjective value, there would be no trade as there would be nothing to gain from transactions. Only when a buyer values a good more than its price and a seller values the same good less than its price can there be voluntary trade.

However, what is not generally agreed upon is what exactly gives a good or service the perceived value. Especially true is this for different kinds of money, but the mechanism behind the formation of value is probably universal, and a theory of value should therefore apply to all goods and services.

My take on the value enigma is that value is rooted in desire and fear. Something has value because we either desire it, or we fear the consequences of not having it.

This can be seen in our desire for food. We regularly need to eat, and we desire something nice to eat. We are prepared to pay for food because we desire it. If we go hungry for long, we may also be motivated by fear of prolonged hunger, in which case additional value is put on food.

Food derives its value from a combination of desire and fear.

Gold on the other hand is uniquely valued out of desire. There is no fear associated with gold. Noting bad will happen to a person for not owning gold. However, gold does have desirable qualities for the production of jewelry and for some engineering tasks. Its main attraction, though, is its historic ability to preserve purchasing power.

Unlike gold, government issued fiat currencies derive their value mainly from fear. Paper notes and computer digits have no value as a commodity. But without government issued fiat currency, people cannot pay their taxes. Government agents will put people in jail if they do not pay their taxes in fiat. It is also illegal to deny a payment in fiat when dept is settled. It is the threat of imprisonment and death that gives government issued fiat currencies value, and the desire that we all have for such currencies rest ultimately on this threat. Without the threat, government issued fiat would quickly loose all value and no one would any longer desire to own it.

A special case of fiat is the so called cryptocurrencies. These are digits in a computer network, issued through some private algorithm. What gives these currencies value are their perceived uniqueness and usefulness in performing transactions. However, cryptocurrencies are not very unique. There is no limit in how many cryptocurrencies can be created, so even if there is a limited number of units for each cryptocurrency, there is no limit in the overall amount of such currencies.

Another problem with cryptocurrencies is that they are not very useful for making transactions. Their value is simply too unstable. This is due to the fact that they have no useful function other than making transactions. They have no desired property as a commodity, and they are not needed in order to keep us free from the tax man. Should the price of a cryptocurrency suddenly half, no engineer or jeweler will come rushing in for the bargains. Should the price suddenly double, who's to say that the new price is wrong.

Cryptocurrencies will never attain price stability. Their price is determined solely out of greed. They have no utility outside that of transactions to give them stability. There is not even the utility of freedom from jail. This makes them hopeless as a unit of account. They cannot be used to write contracts because their value in the future cannot be estimated with any degree of certainty.

The only value of cryptocurrencies are their ability to perform transactions. Yet, their instability guarantee that no good or service will ever be priced in them. Without the backing of a commodity or the threat of violence, cryptocurrencies are doomed as they cannot perform the function for which they were designed. They will never obtain enough price stability to ever come into widespread use, and are therefore doomed.

One in a Zillion

Bitcoin is no longer the dominant crytocurrency that it once was. Despite its latest run, it now accounts for less than half the total value of the cryptocurrency market, and as a technology it is already dead.

It takes 20 minutes to make a transaction in Bitcoin, and this time delay is only going to grow if this currency gains any kind of credibility among retailers. In other words, Bitcoin only works as long as very few people use it. That's hardly great news for a currency with no other value than that it can be transacted.

However, the problem with cryptocurrencies do not stop with Bitcoin. All cryptocurrencies have value simply because they can be transacted in. But a transaction in cryptocurrencies is no more than a transfer of some digital numbers from one account to another. That's a very simple technology. Anyone with a bit of programming knowledge can make such a system.

The future will be one with zillions of cryptocurrencies to choose from, and who's to say what the right value is for a unit. One unit makes a transaction just as well as millions units. There is no practical distinction between large numbers and small numbers when it comes to the practicality of making a transaction. Unlike gold or silver, where a large unit is more useful in terms of what you can make from it in way of jewelry or engineering, cryptocurrencies are just as useful in large quantities as they are in small quantities. There is no distinction, and price determination is therefore impossible. A cryptocurrency can loose half its value over night because such a fall has no practical significance. The currency's ability to perform its only useful function is not impaired. However, a similar drop in the value of gold or silver would allow jewelers and engineers to pick up these commodities at bargain prices.

Unbacked cryptocurrencies are doomed, because objective price discovery is impossible. Only currencies backed by gold or silver will survive. But until then, expect a zillion different cryptocurrencies to arrive.

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A Perpetual Universe

I have no faith in the current cosmological model of a Big Bang leading to a Big Crunch or a slow death of the Universe. My gut feel tells me that our Universe is perpetual, and I believe that such a Universe can easily be defended as a plausible theory.

There is a simple mechanism in which a perpetual universe can stay eternally "young" by constantly recycling its matter and energy. All that is required is instability in close proximity of equilibrium.

Constantly seeking equilibrium, our Universe will tend toward a certain state. Let us say that this state is the exhaustion of all stars into radiation. But let us further assume that great instability lies very close to the equilibrium state. If the equilibrium state is a Universe full of radiation, we can imagine the instability to be the short circuiting of this radiation.

Whenever radiation becomes dominant, short circuits happen. Radiation is pulled together to form solar systems and galaxies. At the end of the cycle when equilibrium is finally reached, the short circuit brings everything back to the staring point, and because our Universe is a closed system, there is no loss of energy. There is no "friction" to slow down or alter this perpetual recycling, so it will go on for ever.

For such a model of the Universe there is no beginning and there will be no end. Overall, the Universe will always look the same. Everywhere there will be objects of various ages as measured from their re-set, but in truth they are all eternal.

The perpetual universe

Let's Drop the Magic

Astronomy is full of strange and wonderful theories about matter and energy, none of which have been observed in a laboratory, or directly observed in space.

This is unfortunate, because the more magic is added to a theory, the less likely it is to be an accurate description of reality.

Among my pet hates are:

1. Black Holes
2. Neutron Stars
3. Dark Energy
4. Super-dense matter
5. Liquid Metallic Hydrogen
6. Cold Fusion

None of this has ever been directly observed.

Another irritating aspect of astronomy is the quick jump to conclusions regarding the nature of things. We see great flashes in the skies, and conclude that they must be the death of stars. We see rapid flashes and conclude that they must be rapidly spinning neutron stars. Why not keep the conclusions open? Why not list the other possibilities too?

Supernovas are associated with stars. That is known by observation. But is the star dying or being created? That is unknown. Rapid radio-flashes in the sky may be sparks and have nothing to do with rotation. Let's not jump to conclusions.

Let's keep the number of fantastic theories to a minimum. Let's stay with mechanisms that we actually know to exist, and see if we can build a cosmology on that.

Sun

By DracoLumina17 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

No Climate Refugees This Year Either

With record snow fall and extended winters across the northern hemisphere, climate related flooding is unlikely to kick in anytime soon. After more than 20 years of waiting on the catastrophe, nothing has happened. The trend is currently towards a wetter and greener planet with larger ice sheets on both Greenland and the Antarctic. I guess we just have to wait a few more decades to see the huge influx of climate refugees that we were promised.

No Quake Deeper Than 700 km

Earthquakes occur at different depth, ranging from just a few kilometers to 700 kilometers down. Why this is the case, nobody knows, but the absence of quakes any deeper than 700 kilometers may indicate that our planet is indeed hollow.

However, there is a problem with the numbers as seen from the hollow Earth perspective. The crust of our planet should be no more than 470 km thick. This means that matter must either have been added to our planet as part of the expansion process, or the quake data is somehow wrongly interpreted.

One way the quake data can be wrongly interpreted is if assumptions of densities in the crust are incorrect. A solid model predicts higher densities in the crust than a hollow model. It may therefore be the case that quakes that are presumed to happen 700 km down are in fact happening closer to the surface.

Cross section of a hollow planet

Why So Few Children?

Global fertility rates are falling, and many countries now have fertility rates lower than what is required to sustain the population.

People in developed countries have fewer children than in underdeveloped countries. Apparently, many in developed countries trust that technology and other people's children will take care of them when they grow older.

Why go through twenty years of raising a child when the welfare state will take care of us, using other people's children and resources? Why invest so much time and energy in raising a child when there is the option of buying pension insurance?

By Avsar Aras - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Soft Censorship

A clever way to sensor news, films and literature is to subsidize it. Make sure the subsidies are big enough to be important for the news and art producers, and state agents can be virtually guaranteed that content will be formed according to their wishes.

Once people realize that their income is dependent on the good will of the subsidizing agent, they will automatically start to self censor. Opinions and views that might be viewed negatively by the agents will be toned down or removed.

These days, censorship is done through subsidies. That way no one notices what's going on. Everybody think that we are served a well balanced diet of art and news. What better way to censor content than to do it in a way that escapes most people's attention?

Liquid Hydrogen Sun?

From observations of our Sun there can be little doubt that it has a liquid surface. The idea that it is a gaseous plasma can therefore be laid to rest. But does this mean that it has a surface of liquid hydrogen? The surface of our Sun is many thousand degrees. Is the pressure really sufficient to keep it from evaporating?

Why not suppose that the surface of our sun is liquid rock? That would fit better with observed temperatures. The objection to this is that hydrogen is predominant in the specter of light coming from our Sun. But is the predominance of hydrogen in the light specter of the corona necessarily indicative of a liquid hydrogen surface? The corona can reach millions of degrees in temperature. Hydrogen could easily be produced by fission of heavier elements at such temperatures.

Maybe the Sun is liquid rock, and the only reason we see so much hydrogen in its light specter is that hydrogen is produced in its hyper-hot corona.

Sun's surface

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A Giant Distraction

If we are to believe our political overlords, climate change is the biggest challenge facing mankind.

But who in their right mind believes this anymore? None of us have any personal experience with any climate change. The little change that has been recorded has been so insignificant that it has gone completely unnoticed by regular people, and the change has by and large been good. Our planet is getting greener and the large ice sheets on Greenland and the Antarctic are gaining mass.

There is absolutely no evidence of anything bad going on with our climate at the moment. The future, we are told, is where the problems will come. However, we have been told this for close to thirty years now, and nothing bad has happened.

The climate change hysteria pushed by the political elite is looking more and more like a giant distraction to take our attention away from the fact that something truly horrifying is happening right before our eyes. Our liberties are being chipped away at a frightening speed, and there is no sign that there will be any let up in this. The politicians are unlikely to stop before they have completely subjugated us all, but this of course, we're not supposed to notice.

Dangerous shelf cloud

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What Climate Changes?

To everybody out there obsessing about climate changes, please tell me exactly what you have personally experienced in way of climate changes over the past 20 years. I for one have experienced exactly nothing. I bet no-one else can point to any personal experiences either. Everything is based on hearsay from supposed experts.

Roll cloud over Wisconsin

By Eazydp - Personal photo., Public Domain, Link

A Constant Source of Strife

Politics has a tendency to bring the worst out in people. Civilized conversations quickly decay into verbal fights when politics is brought up, and the reason for this is that almost all political ideas have a Saturnistic view of humanity. Subjugation of our fellow men is the dominant idea of almost every political system, and that leads necessarily to strife and conflicts.

There is only one political idea that does not promote subjugation, and that is Liberty. Under Liberty, there is no subjugation, and hence no need for opposing groups to fight for self preservation. Those who fight Liberty are doing so in order to subjugate others.

The vast majority of people adhere to some sort of subjugation in their political belief. They see a need to fight their fellow men. That is why strife is almost impossible to avoid in political discussions. Saturnists of varying colours will fight each other, and they will join together to fight the very idea of Liberty.

By Paul Reynolds from Dublin, Ireland - Occupy the Dáil Uploaded by Armbrust, CC BY 2.0, Link

Making Sense of Observations

What led me to the conclusion that gravity is a function of charge rather than mass was not a desire to be different, but a desire to make sense of observed facts.

To understand why I ended up with my hypothesis, we have to appreciate the data that was considered:

1. Earth appears to be expanding
2. Gravity appears to have grown stronger over time

These two facts are mutually exclusive according to the standard model of gravity. Without some exotic mechanism added to the standard model, there is no way to use it to explain the observations.

Only a model of gravity based on the capacitance of hollow spheres give us a ready explanation for the observed facts without the need to invent anything new.

The problem and the solution are laid out in detail in my two essays The Gravity Mystery and A Capacitor Model of Gravity. And for those doubting that our planet may be hollow, I strongly recommend Jan Lamprecht's work on the subject.

Earth's Crystal Core

A difference in speed of acoustic waves traveling north-south vs. east-west through our planet has led some people to conclude that there is a giant crystal at the center of our planet.

However, there is a very simple alternative explanation that would work just as well. From observations of gas giants such as Jupiter, we can clearly see that matter form bands along the longitudes. This is almost certainly the case for rocky planets too.

The result of such bands is that there will be a difference in acoustic speed as observed. There is no need to invent exotic super-dense materials in order to explain observations. A quick look around the solar system gives us all the information we need.

Cross section of a hollow planet

Are They All Toast?

It will be very interesting to see how the latest global ransomware attack pans out.

What I find particularly interesting is the fact that the extortionists demand payment in Bitcoin. They are clearly under the impression that their use of Bitcoin hides their identity. But is this really the case?

It appears to me that we are about to find out exactly how secretive it is possible to be when using Bitcoin. Won't the identity of the criminals become evident the moment they try to take money out of the anonymous account they have created? How on Earth are they going to spend their ill gotten gains without revealing themselves?

If it turns out that the criminals are toast, unable to access their loot without being found out, then I rather suspect that Bitcoin too is toast. One of the big selling points of Bitcoin has after all been that transactions can be made completely anonymously. If this turns out to be a fiction, then the appeal of Bitcoin becomes a whole lot less.

Another interesting thing is that the criminals used a loop hole deliberately built into Windows in order to satisfy NSA. Edward Snowden has warned about this for a long time, and now it has happened. Can large institutional organizations continue to use Windows now that it is clear to all that the operating system has been deliberately corrupted? Probably not. Windows may be toast too in other words, and Apple is known to have similar loop holes in their products. Will open source operating systems see growth at the expense of Apple and Microsoft?

How about NSA? That tax funded spying organization with an unsavory appetite for nude pics and private conversations. They spent tax payer money to make everybody less safe. How will they deal with the fallout?

Love Thy Neighbor

Nothing annoys a Saturnist more than joy and optimism spread far and wide. The more genuine and heartfelt the positive outlook and sense of togetherness, the more infuriating it is to the Saturnist.

This is because Saturnists are great proponents of strife and division. War and destruction is what they want and love. They want to see distrust and ill feelings among men.

So, if you feel like irritating a Saturnist or two, make sure you wish everybody all the best in their lives. Wish them a Merry Christmas, a Fun Valentine's Day, a Happy Easter and a Great Halloween.

But be careful! Some Saturnists are so full of hate and ill feelings towards their fellow men that they will literally kill you for being positive and happy.

Trolling the Gold Bugs

There is a mania in Bitcoin these days. Its price is going up at a breathtaking pace, and it makes me wonder if this might be partially due to central bank intervention.

Are central banks trolling gold bugs by sending the price of Bitcoin sky high? After all, most gold bugs are deeply aware of Bitcoin as a competitor to gold, so sending the price of Bitcoin to the Moon is an effective way to demoralize them.

Some gold bugs who are stacking gold purely as a short term investment may even decide to dump their gold and go all in on Bitcoin, thereby making it easier for central banks to keep the gold price from going up too quickly.

Ulysses and the sirens

By Herbert James Draper - 1. Art Renewal Center 2. Unknown source 3. The Bridgeman Art Library, Object 96235, Public Domain, Link

Precipitation, Temperature and Ice Cover

The world is getting greener as a result of an overall increase in precipitation. Dry places that rarely see any rainfall experience super blooms. Deserts are covered in flowers, grass is growing and life is good for wildlife and humans alike.

But one dry place is unlikely to see any flowers any time soon. The South Pole, with temperatures never going above -12 C, will remain covered in ice and snow. All that will happen to the South Pole due to the increase in precipitation is that its ice sheet will become thicker. Greenland too, with average annual temperatures well below freezing will see its ice sheet thicken.

For the South Pole and Greenland, a change in temperature of a few Kelvin one way or another will have no effect on their overall ice cover. What matters is the amount of precipitation, and the trend for global precipitation is up. Both the global warming and the global cooling camp agree on this. The future will be wetter than it is today.

What happens at the fringes is irrelevant when considering the world as a whole. Antarctica has seen its ice extent reach both a maximum and a minimum over the past couple of years. Dramatic changes at the edges mean nothing. It is the thickness of our planet's two major ice sheets that matter, and they are both growing. There will be no flooding of coastal areas. Precipitation is up, not down, and the trend is expected to continue.

All in all, the climate of our planet is improving fast. Who knows, we may even see the Sahara turn green again in the not too distant future.

By NASA/Michael Studinger - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/multimedia/fall11/MarieByrdLand_DSC0872.html, Public Domain, Link

They are All the Same

It is becoming increasingly obvious that there is no big difference between comets and asteroids as far as their makeup is concerned. They are both rocky objects. The tail of comets are due to the eccentricity of their orbits in a charged environment. The tails are evidence of electric discharge rather than an indication of an abundance of water.

Comet

By Philipp Salzgeber - http://salzgeber.at/astro/pics/9703293.html, CC BY-SA 2.0 at, Link

The distinction between large planets and small stars is also starting to blur. Jupiter is very hot. A little more heat, and it would glow like a Brown Dwarf. The distinction is one of temperature only.

And for the distinction between gas planets and rocky planets, it is purely a matter of atmosphere. A thick atmosphere makes a gas planet. A thin atmosphere makes a rocky planet, and in between we have Earth and Venus, appearing to make a transition from one state to the other.

The distinction between moons and planets are also blurring. Some of Jupiter's largest moons have atmospheres, and are as large as planets. They are different from planets only in their orbits. Was Jupiter to start glowing like a star its moons would have to be reclassified as planets.

Contrary to what was originally thought, our universe is not full of vastly different types of objects. They are all the same, with pretty much identical makeup. What makes the objects appear to be vastly different is merely their temperature, their orbits, their size and their atmosphere.

If Our Sun was Smaller

If stars are externally powered, as postulated by the Electric Universe crowd, then the brightness and heat of a star is a function of how much electricity is available in its area and its ability to attract this electricity for its own use.

If our sun was smaller, or for some other reason less efficient in attracting electricity to itself, all planets in our solar system would be more electrified. Jupiter would start glowing, and possibly Saturn too. Our own planet would see more energetic thunderstorms. Drawing electricity directly out of the atmosphere would be easier too.

Why CIA Loves ISIS

The great advantage with organizations like ISIS, seen from the perspective of game theory, is that it has a strategy that is easy to manipulate. There is hardly a thing ISIS does right in regards to game theory, and the organization would rapidly disintegrate into chaos if left alone.

The CIA has no doubt figured this out, and is for this reason attracted to ISIS and similar fanatic groups. By arming them and keeping them afloat through external funding, CIA can quickly build up armies useful in achieving policy goals. When these goals are met, all they have to do is to leave the group alone and chaos ensues.

There is of course no such thing as total control. The fanatics will at times do things that even the CIA finds a little much. But the overall behavior is reasonably easy to predict.

What should be equally obvious is that the net result of hanging out with losers is never beneficiary over time. However, for those more interested in a quick victory than a long term solution, the ISIS and similar groups are ideal.

Guantanamo Bay detention camp

By Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy - (copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Camp_x-ray_detainees.jpg so that the image can be used on Wikinews.), Public Domain, Link

The Future of Freedom

From a casual observation of news stories and trends in society, it is easy to think that the future will be anything but free. Never in the history of man has there been so many rules and regulations pushed upon us by our political over lords, and never has the tax burden been higher in percentage terms.

There is also a return to barbarism. Homosexuals are tossed off high buildings, beheadings are becoming commonplace, and massacres of civilians happen regularly, even in civilized countries like Sweden and France. We have become numb to the horrors of these events. Nothing surprises us anymore.

However, does this necessarily mean that the historic trend of people becoming nicer to each other is about to end and an era of darkness is upon us? Will we again see large crowds drawn to sadistic public executions of people? Will we see a final triumph of Saturnism over Freedom?

It may seem like we are heading towards a final victory of barbarism over civility. However, there is a very compelling argument to the contrary. The mathematics of Game Theory can be used to predict the outcome of the current push by Saturnists to destroy the West, and it comes out in clear favor of civility.

We don't have to be experts in game theory to appreciate what is about to happen, because most of it is simply common sense formalized into mathematics. Living next door to a professional thief or murderer is for instance something that we would not prefer, given a choice. An ISIS fighter or a brutal tax collector is not our first choice. If these people express a love for cat burning and other sadistic tendencies in conversation, we are further put off.

Habitual liars are not very popular either. The low regard of politicians in public opinion is proof of this. We do not like this kind of people and would rather stay away from them than to be seen associated with them.

Saturnists are simply not very well thought of, even if many still believe that we need them to rule over us. The wealth that some Saturnists acquire through theft and looting may attract some people. But most Saturnists are not rich. They suffer from the fact that most people would rather not associate with them.

This means that Saturnists have a harder time finding a willing spouse than other people. Their psychopathic tendencies work against them. Even if they experience some short term victories, their strategy is a loosing one over time.

Even if Saturnism should succeed in their current push to make everybody a slave to a world government, it will still fail over time. The psychopaths in charge may find riches and a spouse or four, but the average follower is a miserable one with little chances of worldly success or procreation.

Initiation of force and habitual lying are loosing strategies. The strategies suggested in Holy Saturnistic Scriptures are demonstrably that of a looser. Such scriptures may win the occasional convert, but the converts are no more likely to succeed than those already adhering to the twisted belief system of Saturn.

Freedom is the only sustainable strategy, and will for that reason prevail and ultimately banish Saturnists to the fringes of society.

Hung Drawn and Quartered no More

If there is one lesson we can draw from history, it is that humanity as a whole has become nicer over time.

In a not too distant past, public executions were a popular form of entertainment. The more cruel and sadistic the execution, the more people would come to watch.

A standard execution method in Nordic countries was to first chop off the hand of the criminal, and then cut off his head. The criminal had to see what was about to happen to his head. His reaction at seeing his hand chopped off was part of the entertainment.

For more serious crimes, even crueler methods of execution were devised. People were hung, drawn and quartered for treason. People were burned alive for blasphemy.

There were never a lack of spectators to watch these sadistic rituals. However, quite suddenly, people stopped turning up to the execution events. Sadistic killings of miserable people was no longer seen as wholesome family entertainment, and the execution methods had to be made more humane to draw the same kind of crowds.

Public hangings were introduced as the new norm. But pretty soon, this too had to be toned down. Seeing the criminals tread air and wriggle as they swung from their necks, their eyes bulging and faces turning purple, was too much, The criminals had to have a bag placed over their heads, and a drop was devised to ensure that their necks were broken so that they no longer wriggled and tread the air.

However, even this became too much for people and executions had to move out of the public eye. Public executions were no longer seen as entertainment. It was protested and opposed to the point that it had to be performed behind closed doors, and today execution has ceased to exist as a legitimate form of punishment in all but a handful of countries.

Wholesome family entertainment

By Loyset Liédet - Figure 12, Page 122 of A Traitor's Death?, Public Domain, Link

Taxed to Death

I recently had to sell my house in order to pay property taxes. The experience was harrowing. I was thrown into a deep depression, and I was riddled with angst.

The taxman, with the full support of the state apparatus, was forcing me to act contrary to my wishes. He had laid claim to my house, forcing me to pay rent in the form of property tax, and when I found myself unable to pay, I was forced to sell, as if I was some serf in a feudal system.

At the depth of my angst riddled depression I was close to getting a heart attack, and I was sure I would not last much longer. However, I managed to pull myself together and recover, but just barely.

It makes me wonder how many people die at the hand of the taxman every year, and how many lives could be saved by simply lowering the tax rate.

A cottage for the husmann

By Valtov at fi:wikipedia - Originally from fi:wikipedia, Public Domain, Link

Socialist Free Market?

I came across this list of the worlds 10 most socialist countries in the world while researching the relationship between birth rates and economic freedom. What caught my eye was that all 5 Nordic countries were in the list as well as New Zealand and Canada.

New Zealand ranks as number 3 in the the Economic Freedom Index. Canada is number 7, and the Nordic countries all come in very close to USA which is ranked number 17.

The definition of socialism is the public ownership of capital, the very opposite of economic freedom.

It appears that someone is trying to attribute the benefits of freedom to a system that is anything but free.

The socialist fist of coercion

Created by User:KeithTyler. It is a variant of the clenched fist motif which has been widely used by leftist, workers, and liberationist groups since the nineteenth century. The motif itself is not under copyright. - Uploaded by User:KeithTyler, who created this image., Public Domain, Link

The Religion of Pieces

Why do so many converts to Islam develop such an unhealthy fascination with explosives and ball-bearings? No other religion has such an effect on converts. This is a problem unique to Islam, yet no one seems interested in finding out why.

Planet Atmospheres and Magnetic Fields

In our solar system, there are planets with very strong magnetic fields and planets with virtually no magnetic field, and the reason for this variability is a bit of a mystery. No one quite knows why this is so. However, one thing is known for sure, the magnetic fields are due to charge in motion. There must be an electric current somewhere for a magnetic field to be generated.

But where is this current to be found? Is it deep inside planets, or is it in the atmosphere?

For the internals of a planet, we can only speculate. However, the external features of planets are well known, so there we can do an objective analysis to see what we can find.

And indeed, there seem to be some external features that correlate quite well with the strength of magnetic fields of planets. All planets with a magnetic field have an atmosphere and they rotate on their axis at least as fast as Earth. They are also at least as large in diameter as Earth.

Characteristics of planets with virtually no magnetic field:

Mercury is small, rotates slowly, has very little atmosphere.
Venus is about as big as Earth, rotates extremely slowly, has a thick atmosphere.
Mars is small, rotates like Earth, has very little atmosphere.

On the other hand we have the gas giants, all big with thick atmospheres:

Jupiter is biggest, rotates in 10 hours has a magnetic field 19519 times stronger than Earth.
Saturn is second biggest,  rotates in 11 hours has a magnetic field 578 times stronger than Earth.
Uranus is third biggest, rotates in 17 hours has a magnetic field 48 times stronger than Earth.
Neptune is the smallest, rotates in 16 hours has a magnetic field 27 times stronger than Earth.

Note that the magnetic field is exponentially related to size and rotation speed. Jupiter has a magnetic field 40 times stronger than Saturn. Saturn has a magnetic field 10 times stronger then Uranus, and Uranus has a magnetic field 2 times stronger than Neptune.

The correlation is definitely there.

Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter's Atmosphere

By NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester) - http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/24, Public Domain, Link

The Great Conspiracy

A great conspiracy was perpetrated against the american people in 1913 at a club house on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Cloaked in the language of reason and progress, the Federal Reserve was created, giving a handful of bankers the privilege of money creation out of thin air.

This corruption of the US economy set the stage for endless wars and the destruction of reason, a sure sign that strong Saturnistic forces were and are involved in the plunder and subjugation of the world.

From casual observation of history, it is evident that something profound happened around the time of the 1913 meeting. War broke out almost immediately. Art quickly decayed into the absurd. Science became impossible to understand. The economy started to wobble with insane euphoria followed by equally insane depressions, always deeper and higher.

When comparing pictures of fashion, architecture and art from before and after 1913 one cannot help being struck by the decay. Looking into economic thinking, philosophy and science, it is equally clear that something sinister happened. It is no longer possible to discern art from junk, clear thinking from bunk.

The process is still ongoing. The madness is getting worse. However, a few areas have been relatively untouched by the destruction. Engineering and computer science which have to deal with the real world, has no margin for error. Reality sets in immediately if bunk is applied. Despite the rise of the Saturnists, engineering and computer science has continued to expand the welfare of humanity.

At some point, reality will set in for science and economy too, and even art will one day have to revert to sanity. But all of these fields are tolerant towards bunk. We may still have a long way to go before the insanity reaches a point where the system collapses. However, I suspect the collapse will come sooner rather than later. In the end, reality always wins.

Rockefeller cottage on Jekyll Island

By Ebyabe - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link