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![]() What Green Picked.
This morning you can see the continental cloud
cover joke about what James A. Green picked. See the
Colorado fellow in a wig looking at a pair of pinchers in
Oklahoma pinching Texas, the scene that identifies "pick",
the theme of the election season. Again last night
I was luxuriating privately in my quarters, wearing my
Hollywood wig and...by great Caesar's soulful bowels of Christian mercy! Ah! Ah! "Philemon" be praised!
![]() Born in a cross by Her-Cain: Jumping Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones. The mythic image of Galaxy M51 in Canes Venatici. Astrophoto courtesy Kitt Peak. ![]() The Banner of St. James & Toe in the Atlantic.
However, it is hard to talk it up for Galaxy Formation in the local physics graduate seminar, which has been discontinued in my neighborhood so that I cannot easily gainsay local students of physics, I suspect. Thus we move from USA to UMB reasoning in which you don't say. Most faculty are determined to avoid describing the existence of the mythic projection in scenes and figures from the celestial sphere, too, altogether rejecting the discipline of reviewing what is suggested by the form of a nebulosity when it is regarded a communication from On High. Many science teachers oppose publishing Science Faction, perhaps because then they have to suffer publish-or-perish trials to obtain tenure, often under the heel of cruel editors, instead of merely agreeably teaching old material. This is how teachers get control that silences a school of thought and dampens creativity, as if they were paid to teach us not to write. I am suspicious of teachers that teach us not to write or who seek to silence us.
I grapple sometimes with problems in elementary particle physics featuring constants that have been stripped off the equations, so that the equations may impede fools with better effect, it seems. They have been written partly in disappearing ink, I see, perhaps to get students closer for the purpose of dealing with them in close quarters. Then we have each other to reach for, thicker straws fit for the clutching. "Help Me" phenomena could then be served by making problems more difficult than they are, so that help would be more often requested in exchange for substantial payments. I get the impression that the Spirit of Truth may be advanced by writers that choose not to slavishly copy their professors, who could use some serious competition in this arena from the ranks of graduate students armed with a determination to make everything as clear as glass outside the system until they themselves are under glass. As a consequence, dropouts might experience Been Down So Long It Seems Like Up to Me world view transformations similar to mine. Perhaps what the world needs now is a Mark Twain in each scientific discipline, someone who can make the other side of things quite publicly visible. I think of the suppression of intellectuals that took place during the Chin dynasty, which fell at the time of the rise of Han. Imposition of standards designed to draw artificially confused students in so that they could be straightened out in person may be ruled out in the future by our ability to self-publish and distribute manifestly superior material which actually does more for intelligence than a kind of fan dance in the documents featuring screened-down equations with missing constants. A doctor's plot could be good or bad for us. The ready availability of self-publishing now makes alternative opinions more readily available, so that our insight may soar, as official projections are sometimes processed down to something requiring professorial assistance as a matter of course. Equations may be stripped to create secret formulae, but I don't like it. Physics is tough enough without such stuff. Engineering seems less infected with it. It seems a better way is simply to corner public laboratories and dispense with secret code. ![]() |
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