FRACTAL ECONOMICS

 We are in a Global Hyperinflation. It's 04:00 in the morning; I can't sleep. I t's been a great day, all finished up and a few beers with colleagues, nice, but I didn't drink that much, so that's not what's keeping me up. What it is is what I am watching, what I always watch, the silver and gold prices. Both are now exponential across all currencies... I just checked again. All currencies, with respect to what has traditionally been 'money', are in freefall. That's a hyperinflation across the board.. and I don't think (well, I know) there is no one in the cockpit. If there are, then they are pushing the stick forward; it seems that way. The one guy calling this out, drawing attention to it, Peter Schiff ( like him or not), was called 'a Loser and a Jerk' for doing so by the President last week. Amazing! ...There is noone in the cockpit. This week in our meeting, I presented my work on the atmosphere and the fractal in a 5-minute elevato...

 Curse of dyslexia; re-edit of my papers Can I share with you my personal story, one that culminated with the re-edit of my very special papers on the fractal, quantum, and cosmology?  These days, as I am writing my book, I am making use of a kind of artificial intelligence, in the form of an assistant editor, Grammarly. It's just a breakthrough for me; all my life, I've been cursed with dyslexia. I only learnt that word when I became a teacher. Yes, I'm a teacher, and I know how to read and write, but I have serious issues with it and have had problems in the past. With Grammarly, I have been editing my old work and even this blog. And it's been a great feeling doing this. However, last week I did something that threw me into a pit of humiliation: I looked over the papers I submitted to the International Journal of Quantum Foundations and found them riddled with grammatical errors. What to do? To cut a long story short, I wrote to the editor and said to him that they a...

  My morning experiment. This is what I do these days, teach (sometimes before class I play these 'toys' with my students), research and write ... and exercise in between. Germanium is interesting to me because, as a solid, it shares a property that most air does: it is transparent to thermal (infrared) radiation. Just as an afterthought, the tape can leak infrared radiation, so it is not a perfect (blackbody) absorber of infrared radiation, but is very close. I am interested in the detector. I think it is the most important detector humans have ever developed (outside the compass). In fact, it helped us understand magnetism and its connection to light. It is the thermopile and its kin (in this demonstration), the bolometer (the thermal camera). But it is old, 19th-century, as is, as a result of the detector, our common knowledge of heat radiation. This instrument is central to greenhouse theory (it defines the greenhouse gases) and quantum mechanics. It is the detector behind...