Dimensionally Barrett

  This injunction is targeted for professionals in various areas of law, medicine, and politics. It might seem abstruse to many - it did for me, at least on the first read or two - but it speaks to a larger and deeper ethical framework that is supposed to underpin these professions. Snyder points out how valuable lawyers were to the Third Reich in implementing perception, mass murder, and genocide. The ability to maintain a facade of professional legitimacy in the face of immoral acts of the highest order and broadest reach is integral to ensuring an enthusiastic, if not merely complacent, populace.  Rather like the Milgram Experiment, all it takes is the voice of an authority to wipe away conscience and shore up one’s belief that what they are doing is right.  Snyder recounts how businessmen were all in in the construction of the camps, how lawyers crafted the annexation of Austria and the Netherlands, and how, most damningly, physicians put away the Hippocratic oath to ...

I’ll be voting tomorrow, early, ahead of the Election Day. Why tomorrow? Quite simply, because i’m undecided on several judicial elections, principally in the appellate courts and on a bond issue that isn’t as cut and dried as i originally thought. I figure i have another few hours of research to do on the candidates and while i’ve listened to some in-depth analysis on the bond issue, I remain sitting between two stools. Why am I not addressing the larger contest for U.S. President? Because I genuinely believe that local elections are at least, as important. Because we’ve seen what happens when demagogues get their way and make concerted efforts to determine local politics. For example, i was on the fence about voting for a judge endorsed by both the Dallas and Houston papers. He doesn’t sound like, on the face of it, the type to rule based on a strict agenda and indeed, does have a reputation for adjudicating fairly. However, he also has the support of Texas State Attorney-Under-Indic...

Biphoton state holographic reconstruction. Image reconstruction. a, Coincidence image of interference between a reference SPDC state and a state obtained by a pump beam with the shape of a Ying and Yang symbol (shown in the inset). The inset scale is the same as in the main plot. b, Reconstructed amplitude and phase structure of the image imprinted on the unknown pump. Credit:  Nature Photonics  (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01272-3 Quantum entanglement flies in the face of our quotidian “us-scale” reality. For that matter, post-Euclidian math and physics are for the most part, contradictory of the so-called “real world” and yet, humanity continues to live as though it knows what is real. In large measure, we don’t. Am I making a claim that quantum mechanics is the truest depiction of reality? Well, let’s put it like this; it seems to provide a telling proof that things are not as we perceive them (which any artist or philosopher or mystic over the past 10,000 years would av...

http://houston.astros.mlb.com/hou/images/wallpaper/y2017/1920x1080_earnit.jpg ; Words of wisdom - maybe do it right next time? “…I think that this concentration on such topics as sports makes a certain degree of sense. The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway, without a degree of organization that's far beyond anything that exists now, to influence the real world. They might as well live in a fantasy world, and that's in fact what they do. I'm sure they are using their common sense and intellectual skills, but in an area which has no meaning and probably thrives because it has no meaning, as a displacement from the serious problems which one cannot influence and affect because the power happens to lie elsewhere.” -        Noam Chomsky The following has grown out of reflections on the recent accusations of cheating by the Houston Astros baseball team. My sister and I have followed the team closely thi...