It is just a hypothesis, but I had it long before I began reading that book

 

So if you follow real closely on Substack this will make more sense than if you read from the other platforms I use, yet you will g understand it all anyway.

I had to take a break from reading the massive amounts of non fiction I have enveloped myself into and read for some entertainment purposes to relax my brain. I accidentally ran across a science fiction book called “Anathem”. It is not an easy read if you spend the time exploring the detail of the world the author, Neal Stephenson, creates. If like me, you are just reading the story and let the details slide to the side and view them as you journey along without stopping to explore; it is an interesting book or let’s say story.

Not that I have anything published, yet I have lots of fiction written in various states and my style is to write the story first then expand it or deepen it or broaden it. You can choose your adverb of what I am doing, or maybe writing expansively or is it the writing is expansive an adjective. You know folks this stuff is hard, lol. So let’s get to the science and science fiction.

None of that matters and I want to say upfront, years ago I posted a similar idea that Mr. Stephenson uses in his book that the cosmos rotate.

I didn’t say it that way. I said our universe is rotating. Since then I have thought more on this thought and believe it is rotating or will be rotating. How do I come to that conclusion?

First I believe before the big bang that whatever energy that led up to the big bang was rotating, yet in all directions. Imagine a ball, a ball of what I do not know, say energy and it spinning, yet not on axis like our planet. So in its spin it is rotating so what was once on top is now on the side and this doesn’t move in any lockstep fashion. It is swirling and spinning around waiting to be released.

So the big bang happens and everything goes outward, yet not in a straight line as from what little I know people tend to think as such. Or I get that impression based on we put up the James Webb telescope to look back in time like it is a straight line.

In my eyes it doesn’t go in a straight line and since I do not study physics or any other discipline deeply I have no idea how off base I am from other thinking or if others have thought about this.

In my eyes since the energy was spinning, everything threw off into an ever expanding curve that has or will eventually revolve around the center from which the big bang happened.

If you can picture the visual instead of outward expanding lines from a center you have a center where the outward expanding lines begin to curve to slowly create an orbit. Now does the orbit grow from the center as time goes on, ie the original outward lines curve around and then continue to curve around itself or does it find an orbital path that the material we now see such as galaxies are beginning to fall into orbit or as most that I read suggest it is continuing to expand. The difference is not straight lines, but slowly circular lines that continue around the center but each time it goes round it is further away. I think it is this latter curve and expanding orbit is what is happening.

I made my original observation of this thought years ago in this blog. I am not going to go back and try and find it unless it becomes important somehow. I am expanding on my original hypothesis since some articles I have read concerning what the James Webb Space telescope is seeing is that objects such as galaxies are more developed than the models suggest in the time line we think we know.

Or if we look straight back, the galaxies blow up many theories on our first thoughts of what happened with the big bang and how long it took for matter, hence stars then galaxies to develop. Yet if we look back through a curve expansion then the time line is different and galaxies may seem like they are closer to the big bang in time constructs, but actually further along the evolutionary scale of universe development even though they appear closer to the big bang because we are seeing them go from the big bang then march outward and start to go around.

 

 

Word keeps wanting to correct my shapes in its auto programming so this is very crude since I am trying to bypass it trying to tell me what to do. The second sketch is if we have already reached an orbit type model. The first is we haven’t reached and ongoing orbit with matter yet.

As described above I think we are still in the above or first diagram and who knows if it ever curves around, but it is headed that way.

I drew two lines around to show multiple or layered growth. The direction doesn’t matter, it is what the direction that occurred when the actual energy was released. Picture us along either one of the curves trying to look back. We see galaxies that are more on the developmental timeline than what we see if we think we are looking straight back. All this is just a hypothesis because hey why not.

 

So is all this because I want to prove a point that I thought of the idea of rotating cosmos before a well known science fiction writer. Or am I just procrastinating on working on My Journey through City of God. Finally I do want to say I am working on a science fiction novel myself, yet it deals with a whole different set of science fiction fun and theories.

 

Cheers

There is just too much lipstick on this pig to even begin to recognize it anymore and why the rank and file maga aren’t to blame (mostly)

 

Okay I promise I will get back to writing in the other blog soon. You know something that even if I do not know what I am doing it is at least more dedicated to doing what we need to do, like prayer that I get back to it and quit letting the city of man drive me crazy.

Okay that said, let’s start being crazy again.

Trump now is covered in so much lipstick from the Washington DC enablers it is laughable except for how bad things have gotten.

And yes the rank and file MAGA is not fully to blame no matter what the name calling democratic clueless elitists will say.

Why do I say this? Well because, yep just because. Really it goes back to decades of Democrats giving lip service to improving education and saying they fought for the working class. They did neither. The working class got tired of the Democrats’ lies and eventually started looking elsewhere. Unfortunately due to lack of education for many elsewhere was a mistake. And now they cannot back out of the madness they signed up for unless they are willing to admit to making a mistake. A hard ask for any human.

There are some actual MAGA rank and file and influencers that are deplorables, yet they are much more of a small minority than the Democrats believe. Most were tired hard working people including working, middle and upper middle class individuals that saw Washington failing them. The Democrats talked down to them and we had years of FOX demonizing democrats that eventually when the pig entered the marketplace many were ready to hear what he had to say. Sure it was all lies and bluster with a small iota of policy that attracted many such as stronger immigration policy and a I can fix it mentality that people wanted to hear. Things were not as bad as he said, but people had already been lied to enough by omission from the Democrats and by FOX straight up that they were ready to believe.

And when the queen of democrat elitism, Hillary Clinton called a good chunk of Americans deplorables she basically kicked them over the edge. She was already hated by way too many Americans as it was and then she gave them the catalyst to buy into Trump’s bluster hook line and sinker.  So we got Trump 1.0

Now we have Trump 2.0 and there are way too many sycophants in DC slathering lipstick on the pig because they know if the lose the base, they are all in trouble. And the lipstick is so thick it is beyond ugly. So we get upteen amounts of idiots spewing madness all lying to us about everything hoping they can stave off the inevitable disaster we are no longer slow walking to.

We can no longer hide from our debt and deficit, the Social Security and Medicare debacle, the inability of Congress to reign in the madness, a disaster of a war that is not a war, the Epstein class of criminals, the grift, the “DC improvement” projects, what will soon become apparent that our federal government will not be able to help in national disasters loss of trust from our allies, way too much fake love to Trump from Putin, the joke called tariffs, the lipstick is off the bigotry, the trio of doom on the Supreme Court, January 6 and so much more.

So what do we do you hopefully ask. The end is near, but not inevitable. This country has bounced back from other disasters and madness.

It will take two large groups of people to either completely shut up or realize how much they need each other. And most of those people are in the main economic groups of our country, the working, middle and upper middle classes that are split into believing in their separate echo chambers. If someone can get people to realize, they are on the same team then things may turn around and with some work somewhat quickly. Until then, it is just all madness, incompetence and ugly coming out of DC.

And there are some tough laws that will need to be enacted early such as changes to being able to gerrymander, lobbying by special interests, campaign finance laws or generally creating an environment where the best ideas get to DC, not the loudest stupidity.

So the answers are out there if the people will quit fixating on the pig, pro and con, and start fixating on what is best for them.

Or I will just keep shouting the truth that the DC Dems are clueless elitists and the DC Reps are twits and cowards. It is not the people that are the problem, but they just need to realize they need to start loving their fellow citizens again.

Cheers

 

And I do need to stop this madness and work on the more productive projects in my life

Thoughts and questions on reading and on reading and writing

 

Too many people are afraid to talk about their struggles and for many there are serious troubles. For me today though it is more of something I do not understand.

I cannot say I do not have reading comprehension, yet I struggle with reading. I can read a story and generally understand the gist and even some of the meanings involved. And yet I miss so much also and I do not know why. I am not a genius, yet somewhat have some mental capacity so my struggles with understanding what I read has bothered me my whole life.

I struggle with non fiction and fiction. I use to think fiction wasn’t a problem, or maybe it is just old age now, but honestly when people talk about literature I realize I missed something from that story. And it isn’t like I do not get or understand the general story.

I have been working on multiple non fiction projects and one of them is available to follow on Substack. And that one is pretty complicated so I don’t worry so much about how much I miss. The whole purpose is to learn from it, both the book and the process of studying quite more than just the book. I brag to people maybe by saying I have about five books open trying to grasp not just the book, but the whole understanding of where the author is in his writing. The author is well read and has clear understandings of his material. I am just scratching the surface and I don’t mind saying such. It is difficult reading and overwhelming most of the time, yet it is fun for me. Yet my fear is why is it so hard to grasp some of the material.

And the word grasp is not the correct word. Like I mentioned I can read a story and generally understand who are the characters, the plot, even picture described places, but something I cannot put my finger on alludes me in reading a story or non fiction works. Or am I just overthinking it. And I know it is not because I am old because I have struggled with this my whole life.

I see people read something and immediately they can take deep dives into the material. I have to reread just to go back and catch what they discuss. Sure I understand quite a bit of the material, but to watch others just devour reading material amazes me.

And this is irksome because I want to understand it. I recently read three books by C. S. Lewis and not one of them was the Narnia series. I read that years ago and there were times I got lost in the story.  These books I was able to read them at a leisurely pace and sit down with them as I read to think about what was said. I feel pretty confident I understand most to almost all of what he wrote, yet I cannot regurgitate it well, even internally. I can go back and read and say, yes I understood that, but it comes up again in my head, why can’t I discuss it or write about it successfully without struggling.

And this is infuriating because as mentioned I am working on multiple projects that need research. And doing research is difficult for me even though I can pass a test on the material read, I cannot incorporate it into new work with out much effort.

So I am still looking for the right term or word to describe exactly where I am in my reading skills. Again I can comprehend much of the material, but miss too much in my eyes.  I do not remember facts at all, it is almost like a mental block. I have to find the information even though I just read it. I know it is there, but I cannot remember exactly the information.

And then again, I read or consume quite a bit of news. And to brag again, I try to read from many different sources, but over time that has dwindled down to mainly Reuters, AP sourced stories, Forbes, Business Insider, not the Wall Street Journal, but stories I find from that source, something called Raw Story, a few more and still on occasion CNN website.

I used to read more mainstream websites such as CNN, MSN, Fox and others, but they became so partisan that it is impossible to read them regularly. Anyway the gist of this point is I catch the information from news sources better than general reading and I do not understand why. My wife will run across a headline and ask me about it and if I have read the story I can break it down for her quickly and efficiently with no struggle. I can present the arguments the author made and in most cases counter the argument if needed from our view point. There is absolutely no hesitation in addressing these stories. So what gives?

And again if I need to read something to help develop my writing it becomes even more difficult. Again I ask is this a mental block or is there a deeper obstacle I need to overcome.

I am a procrastinator, just ask my wife, she will tell you. Yet I do not think that is what affects my ability to read or comprehend certain material. Procrastination does affect me getting anything done so I ask myself am I rushing to get it done since behind schedule. I am not sure since any schedules or most schedules are of my own creation. I have a few things that are time sensitive, but for most of my reading until I am offered to publish something (hint hint world) there are no deadlines.

And it makes it more confusing for me because I can create a story at the drop of a hat. And once created if I make the effort I can really expand on it with purpose, thoughts or meanings, goals, to make a point and of course actually add some depth. Now I do have to make the effort and that comes back to the procrastination. I have maybe close to twenty short stories and a couple of novels in various stages of completion. A few of the short stories are probably as far along as the one I recently added to my platforms I use for this blog. Some are easily ten thousand words that have been worked on. Will I eventually get to the point where I feel they are completed, who knows? I do think many authors and writers struggle with that though. When is a story done is a question we have to ask ourselves and find the successful answer. It may not be the one we want so as I have written from the beginning; an editor is worth their weight in gold, too bad I have neither. Yet this rings so true. A writer always needs someone to respond to as they march along. Some great ones maybe didn’t, but they are great for a reason. The rest of us can still produce meaningful work with help.

So any thoughts on this two for Tuesday, Taco Tuesday, trash Tuesday or whatever Tuesday phrase floats your boat? I saw another one recently and now for the life of me I cannot remember it. See, there I go again. Something I thought worth remembering now fails to reproduce in my synopsis so I can share with you when I want. This is somewhat of what I am trying to describe as my mental block, not remembering facts that matter even though I know it is out there.

I hope you do not struggle with this madness when trying to do anything in life. The idea of rehashing or rereading the same material a few times just to get something done is frustrating for me so I do not wish it on you in any endeavor, not just reading and writing.

Which leads to my final vent of the day, reading and writing is so important and our society and maybe much of the world does not help develop these skills in young people anymore. I know many will only read at certain levels, but they need to be able to succeed in reading where they can. If I had my way, schools would ditch technology until students are ready to graduate and then maybe have a class or two so they have the technical know how to operate technology. From there they can go on and study it more for a career or something, yet for every day instruction, schools should still rely on books and face to face interactions. And yes I know different people have different learning techniques, so yes be flexible, yet not with relying on technology to do everything. And schools should be allowed to take up phones during the day even if the parents do not like it. Give the kids some self reliance development also.

And as no one does feel free to comment on your feelings about reading and writing. I am curious how the vast majority works through their work.

I do want to say I read so much non fiction of late I found a science fiction novel to read just to relax my brain. It is set on a completely different world, I do find myself able to follow through with what is going on quite well. I may miss some details, yet overall feel pretty good about it. Just don't test me.