Round geometry in any dimension is an unchanging curve.

Mitch Raemsch

Look at a raibow. Science cannot explain how the raindrops organize
into an arc from the ground and a circle from the sky(there are
circular rainbows.)

When science looks at everything I believe there will always be
something left unexplainable at its most completely fundamental level.

Mitch Raemsch; Falling light changes colour

Tonight was fun.

Do electrons in seperate shells effect one another if the shells are
in close proximity?

What creates atomic shells?
Are protons always surrounded by empty shells?

Mitch Raemsch

"Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing
from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon
exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study,
and wander with human heart throught the world. There in the horrors of
prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in
brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock
Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and
ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion
in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge
than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to
doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul."

Forces organize matter.

What else is there?

Mitch Raemsch

There is nothing outside Einstein's closed universe finite yet
unbounded.

Mitch Raemsch

Energy on earth has two basic forms, that which is stored
in various minerals (a closed system if we neglect natural
losses,) and that which we receive from the sun in a more
or less steady fashion (a finite while open system.)

So long as we use more than we are able to replace there
will come a time (if humanity survives long enough) that
we must run out of stored energy unless we find a way
to import more to earth.

I don't believe that a significant industrial human
civilization can survive on solar energy alone.

While I am not a gun nut (firearms are a tool for me just like
my ATV is a tool for me) it is interesting to see what Obama has
been saying over time:

begin quote:
# Ok for states & cities to determine local gun laws. (Apr 2008)
# FactCheck: Yes, Obama endorsed Illinois handgun ban. (Apr 2008)
# Respect 2nd Amendment, but local gun bans ok. (Feb 2008)
# Provide some common-sense enforcement on gun licensing. (Jan 2008)
# 2000: cosponsored bill to limit purchases to 1 gun per month. (Oct 2007)
# Concealed carry OK for retired police officers. (Aug 2007)
# Stop unscrupulous gun dealers dumping guns in cities. (Jul 2007)
# Keep guns out of inner cities--but also problem of morality. (Oct 2006)
# Ban semi-automatics, and more possession restrictions. (Jul 1998)
# Voted NO on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Jul 2005)
end quote

http://www.ontheissues.org/Gun_Control.htm

But then he said things like this:

"Q: Is the D.C. law prohibiting ownership of handguns consistent with an
individual's right to bear arms?

Strict determinism is usually refuted by a Reductio ad absurdum
argument.

Determinism is made to seem ridiculous because it carries with it the
idea that at the instant the universe was created it was in such a
state that I was preordained to be posting these very words now. If
there is only one universe why would it so arrange itself?

But if there are an infinite number of universes then strict
determinism makes sense. As infinite possibilities are realized by
infinite universes then everything that can happen must happen, and it
must happen based on strict causation and not quantum chance.

This idea does not eliminate free will. If I had exercized my free
will not to make this post I would have consciously chosen to take a
path in one of the other preordained universes (ie "many worlds")
where causation would dictate I would not make this post.

Therefore "strict determinism" maintains the common sense idea of
causation, and "many worlds" shows how consciousness can exist in a
strictly deterministic universe.