Quantum Fields of Gold

I never made promises lightly

And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold

(Sting)

Fun and Entertainment

I spent almost a day in bed (backache). Read an old textbook on matrices and reflected that this math area was developed 150 years ago when French and Scotts started to think about the properties of numbers. The next generation discovered that the universe strictly follows maths, from the temperature of faraway celestial bodies to rockets to the moon. The enigma of Newton's falling bodies has been solved: there are no gravitons nor gravitational waves, it is mass that changes the curvature of the spacetime membrane. As I walk on this membrane, my mass bends it. Illustration: Cirque du Soleil. All that follows numerical relations. I think we live in and are a mathematical simulation. It seems totally pointless but beautiful. Are we also just for fun and entertainment? 

SPACE PIONEERS

 

The ceremonial President of Israel, Adv. Itzhak Herzog, landed in Abu Dhabi. The tall guards in beige jalabiya are impressive. He lauded the cooperation in space exploration. "Our cooperation can turn our beautiful region into a global hub of climate solutions,” he said.

Mapping a hidden and improbable water supply piping

 

I had to do it on Saturday early morning because normally there is no parking in the area, not even illegally. Hard work in a hidden garden, and for this old fat Jew - dangerous too.  

Maria - tango de Julio Sosa

 Que vieja y cansada imagen me devuelve el espejo... 

China: A different opinion

易富贤Yi Fuxian《大国空巢》

@fuxianyi

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Economists made exaggerated economic forecasts based on wrong population data, misleading China's leaders into a strategic miscalculation of "the East is rising and the West is declining". U.S. leaders and think tanks have mistook China, an old, sick cat, for an aggressive lion.

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Chris Reed

@calwhine

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The biggest uncovered story of modern life: China's population is collapsing. India is now the most populous nation on Earth and has been for years. India is far more wired, its schools are improving, and is at least as poised as China to be a long-term global U.S. rival. twitter.com/fuxianyi/statu…

The Motley Fool about ZIM

The Motley Fool economic web magazine writes about the fall of the container shipping business. It appears that the AI robot that writes its articles has improved its style.

...protests against a government "zero-Covid" policy are spreading across China, threatening both the ruling regime's stability, the country's economy, and its ability to produce products that would need container shipping services to reach foreign markets. To cite just one example, CNBC reported this morning that Apple is likely to produce 6 million fewer iPhone Pro smartphones this month than it would like to produce, as a result of a combination of Covid outbreaks at its factories, government measures to contain the outbreaks, and protests against the containments.  

Result: Less demand for ocean-going container shipping.

Now what

But this, too, shall pass.

There's an old saying in economics: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." As applied to today's situation, we can understand why China's government wants to stamp out Covid and has imposed draconian measures to accomplish this goal. But after three years of trying, and failing, and seeing its economic growth rate hobbled in consequence, it's starting to become apparent that "zero-Covid" is a policy that cannot be sustained forever.  

Therefore, it will stop...eventually.