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Amazing Astronomical Events of January 20, 2021

Mars (RED Planet) and Uranus (Blue Planet) came as close to each other as they ever do and an asteroid flew between the Earth and the Moon. Both of these events are pretty rare. For someone who is a believer in astrolgy (NOT Astronomy) here is a really good chance to say it is an omen that Biden is pulling the Republicans (RED) and the Democrats (BLUE) together and the asteroid was a sign to take notice. Below are some images from Spaceweather.com where I read about these two events on Jan. 21, 2021:

 

 

Quote From an Iraqui Atheist

"Have you ever heard of a militia that is formed by atheists?" engineering student Darwin, 21, says. "No, only those who have religion form militias and death squads. They are the reason behind the destruction of life, the destruction of humanity."

MY FRIENDS AL AND TOBE

My friends Al and Tobe have helped me greatly in overcoming regular (2 or 3 times per year) upper respiratory infections. Al controls mouth and gut bacteria (maybe virus and fungus too) while Tobe concentrates on mouth bacteria. Tobe has one problem though. He can't seem to help changing my tooth color to a light brown. That might not have happened if I had had earlier fluoride applications. I have determined that I must accept the help of Al and Tobe with care and moderation because some personality types have had problems with them in the past.
If you want to try this, Mr. Cohol lives in gin and Mr. Acco lives in Skoal.

HOW CAN AN EVENT BE A PARTICLE?

 

Not easily. Its taken thousands of years of training and maybe started by Democritus. I think he only said "atom" but I would never have expected him to say "the interference of two fields".
It's my firm belief that no particles exist. What does exist is the interference of fields to create a new field.
The term "particle physics" should be renamed, "field interference theory".
What we view as particles are really only the events that occur when one energy field transfers or converts its energy to a different energy field. In the space between these events there is never anything but energy fields. The biggest problem in physics today is how to convince physicists to think this way.
Take the photon as an example. If a photon goes from A to B, it is only a particle at A and at B and anywhere between A and B there is never a particle, but only the EM field? That would allow the double slit to show interference with a single photon.
If a particle were anything other than an event, what would it be composed of?
"Particle" physics seems to me like a dogmatic religion that is accepted by people who accept authority rather than using their reasoning ability!

What is a photon and does it have mass?

They are the quanta of any electromagnetic field (wave) that can be detected whenever that wave hits something that is able to absorb its particular frequency of energy. In other words, whenever light strikes anything that has a natural resonance equal to its frequency, its energy (hF) is absorbed and that event is described as a photon. It has no rest mass but does have an amount of energy equal to its frequency (F) times Planck’s constant (h). It is affected by gravity because energy is the equivalent of mass (E=mc^2+hF). The mc^2 term is zero but the hF term is not and so acts as an effective mass.

Vocabulary

I understand "vocabulary" to mean a persons reservoir of words used to express information to others. Each person has their own vocabulary of terms which they use to communicate their thoughts to others. More importantly, they use this same vocabulary to understand what others mean when they attempt to communicate with the them. Thus your vocabulary is of great importance. Arguably, the most important thing in your life is your ability to communicate with others. Hence, you should make a most extreme effort to increase your vocabulary and the easiest way to accomplish this is to read and listen to everything you possibly can. Writing down your thoughts is also very helpful. Writing down your thoughts is a very good way to test your vocabulary. Your test score will be the percentage of people who understand the meaning of what you intended to convey.

What Government Officials Say

When government officials are quoted, you never know whether to believe it or not.  It's what they do that's important. But the most important thing of all is finding out what they're doing and what they did in the past and that's becoming a more difficult problem every day. Fake news and biased news agencies are on the rise mostly because of advertising and the internet. Finding an unbiased news agency that doesn't make most of their money from advertising seems to me to be the best idea. My current guesses as to who to trust are; Wikipedia, Snopes, NPR, and some international or foreign news agencies like BBC and Reuters but like I said these are only guesses. Of course you can try to interpret the official records of our three branches of government; legislative, judicial, and executive but that's some pretty heavy reading with a lot of fine print. These are just my ideas. Let me know what yours are!

Why Older People Often Seem Angry

When conversing with someone, older people often have trouble thinking of the words they need to express themselves and before they can come up with the words, someone else says something that changes the topic.  We need to give older people time to find the words they need by "listening slower".  A good listener will wait longer to question what is being said when ANYONE is talking!  As I have said before, you need to listen with your ears and not your mouth.  By doing so you may get the answers to your questions just by listening a little longer before speaking.  A person who is able to listen in this way will often appear more intelligent than they really are.  A problem with this is that the listener often thinks that what they have to say is very important and if they try to wait to ask their question they will forget what they wanted to ask - they may be old too :-)  This brings to mind the story about the girl whose date had just told her that she spoke too slowly.  She said: "If    you  think   I talk   too   slowly,   you  should   hear   my  sister.   Why,  the  other   night,   before   she   could   tell   her   date   she was  not   that  kind  of   a  girl,   she  WAS  that   kind  of  a  girl!

EXPLODING VS EXPANDING

The key to understanding explanations of the origin of the universe is knowing the difference between "exploding" and "expanding".  Exploding means mass or energy moving outward from from some central point due to some central force but expanding meams that more space is created between energy or mass particles where no force seems to be involved.  The big bang was not a bang because that implys an explosion.  It was really the big "expansion".

 

Why Reading is Important

When you reach your 60's or 70's, you will find that you quite often can't remember a word that you want to use to express yourself.  If you have a large enough vocabulary, you can easily come up with a substitute word or words that will get your meaning across.  Arguably, the best way to increase your vocabulary is to read.  It's certainly the most enjoyable way to increase your vocabulary.  When you're reading and encounter a word you're not sure about, you don't necessarily have to stop reading and look it up to know what it means.  Just keep reading and quite often you can tell what the word's meaning is by the way it is used.  I call this "definition by context" and people who read a lot will automatically increase their vocabulary by reading more.  If you use a reading program like the Kindle Reader Program on a PC, all you have to do is highlight a word and its definition will appear.  Not only that, but you can search the whole document for every occurrence of the highlighted word or phrase.  So, if you want to have a large vocabulary and be able to easily communicate with others, READ, READ, READ.  The Kindle Reader Program is free and the books are free!!