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	\|content=In any event, I stand by my claim. The [[Boskin Commission]] was organized by Moynihan and Packwood to deliberately break the [[CPI]] in a precise amount to avoid the US paying 1 trillion dollars over 10 years.		\|content=In any event, I stand by my [[Claims\|claim]]. The [[Boskin Commission]] was organized by Moynihan and Packwood to deliberately break the [[CPI]] in a precise amount to avoid the US paying 1 trillion dollars over 10 years.

	And I promise you no leading economist will call bullshit to debate this.		And I promise you no leading economist will call bullshit to debate this.

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 |content=[[Morals|Moral]]: Bad Theory is overblown. Good theory is a remaining threat to orderly science. But if you fear disruption, run the malware. Thx.
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	\|content=I have no idea what to make of the change in the [[UAP\|UAP narrative]]. What I can tell you with certainty is that for such an ENORMOUS change in the narrative there is no sane explanation for the DOE not to be talking new physics risks and taking every one of the few claims seriously.		\|content=I have no idea what to make of the change in the [[UAP\|UAP narrative]]. What I can tell you with certainty is that for such an ENORMOUS change in the narrative there is no sane explanation for the DOE not to be talking new physics risks and taking every one of the few [[Claims\|claims]] seriously.
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	\|content=As we saw over & over in the 20th century, any small change in physics can change everything almost overnight. From A-Bombs to Semiconductors.		\|content=As we saw over & over in the 20th century, any small change in physics can change everything almost overnight. From A-Bombs to Semiconductors.

	The handful of PhD level claims are of negligible cost to investigate & dismiss compared to a single fighter jet.		The handful of PhD level [[Claims\|claims]] are of negligible cost to investigate & dismiss compared to a single fighter jet.

	DOE lost the plot.		DOE lost the plot.

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 |content=Some folks believe in angels. They have magic in their lives.
-But if you fancy you‘re too scientific/rational for that “woo woo stuff”, you‘re still stuck with “Exotic Spheres.” Well...What are they doing there?
+But if you fancy you‘re too scientific/rational for that “woo woo stuff”, you‘re still stuck with “[[Exotic Spheres]].” Well...What are they doing there?
-[[Morals|Moral]]: don’t screw yourself out of magic.
+[[Morals|Moral]]: [[Don't screw yourself out of magic|don’t screw yourself out of magic]].
 https://nilesjohnson.net/seven-manifolds.html
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	\|content=For some reasons that have never been explained or justified leaders in physics started making the claim that GR was also a gauge theory. This was done by claiming that general coordinate invariance in the form of the diffeomorphism group is a kind of Gauge Transformation. Which it clearly is not.		\|content=For some reasons that have never been explained or justified leaders in physics started making the claim that [[General Relativity\|GR]] was also a gauge theory. This was done by claiming that general coordinate invariance in the form of the diffeomorphism group is a kind of Gauge Transformation. Which it clearly is not.

	This is absurd. Gauge transformations move the fibers and are defined not to move space time where as diffeomorphisms move space time directly.		This is absurd. Gauge transformations move the fibers and are defined not to move space time where as diffeomorphisms move space time directly.

	So: why claim that GR is a kind of gauge theory? The only payoff I see is that this allows us to pretend that the SM vs GR incompatibility is classical vs quantum where it is staring us in the face that it is instead contraction-based (GR) vs Gauge Transformed (SM).		So: why claim that GR is a kind of gauge theory? The only payoff I see is that this allows us to pretend that the [[Standard Model\|SM]] vs [[General Relativity\|GR]] incompatibility is classical vs quantum where it is staring us in the face that it is instead contraction-based ([[General Relativity\|GR]]) vs Gauge Transformed ([[Standard Model\|SM]]).

	The only reason this is at all controversial is that the people saying it were thought to be the leaders 40 years ago.		The only reason this is at all controversial is that the people saying it were thought to be the leaders 40 years ago.
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	That didn’t work out. We have 40 years lost as a result.		That didn’t work out. We have 40 years lost as a result.

	But the truth is anyone can see the incompatibility between gravity and gauge theory if they are not being told that gravity is a special kind of gauge theory. Which it absolutely is not as formulated by Grossman, Einstein and Hilbert.		But the truth is anyone can see the incompatibility between gravity and [[Gauge Theory\|gauge theory]] if they are not being told that gravity is a special kind of [[Gauge Theory\|gauge theory]]. Which it absolutely is not as formulated by Grossman, Einstein and Hilbert.

	[[Morals\|Moral]]: The problem holding us back from a Theory of everything is Classical, and not Quantum. The quantum comes as desert after classical compatibility. It’s not the main issue. A red hearing that throws us off following the scent. It’s a distraction that should have fooled almost no one who was thinking for his or her self.		[[Morals\|Moral]]: The problem holding us back from a Theory of everything is Classical, and not Quantum. The quantum comes as desert after classical compatibility. It’s not the main issue. A red hearing that throws us off following the scent. It’s a distraction that should have fooled almost no one who was thinking for his or her self.
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			\|content=This is what is blocking progress in my opinion for physics to go beyond [[Albert Einstein\|Einstein]] and [[General Relativity]].

			40 years ago, the leaders of physics started claiming that gravity had to be quantized to be compatible with the [[Standard Model]].

			But the incompatibility is not Quantum vs Classical field theory. The classical field theory of the [[Standard Model]] is already not compatible with classical [[General Relativity]].

			[[General Relativity]], at least as it is now, simply cannot be gauged so as to make it a true gauge theory, because Gauge transformation does not commute with the Ricci Contractions used in the field equations, and within the Einstein Hilbert action.
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			\|content=I wish I deserved the heretic moniker, but isn’t asking whether spacetime is quantum or classical just common sense? After all, general relativity (GR) - our theory of gravity and spacetime - is special. It isn’t a gauge theory, and gravity isn’t a force. 1/
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	\|content=[[Morals\|MORAL]]: No one wants @WSJ-Style Open Border Utopianism. Mass immigration as it is currently configured is an “Elite Program” that no one actually wants. It’s bananas.		\|content=[[Morals\|MORAL]]: No one wants @WSJ-Style Open Border Utopianism. Mass immigration as it is currently configured is an “Elite Program” that no one actually wants. It’s bananas.

	[And by “Elite” I mean the social engineers who killed off the actual elite hoping no one would notice.] ~~https://t.co/3aKJdDQhf3~~		[And by [[Extractive Elite\|“Elite”]] I mean the social engineers who killed off the [[True Elite\|actual elite]] hoping no one would notice.]
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	\|content=Ran an @X poll. Here were the results:		\|content=Ran an @X poll. Here were the results:
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			\|content=The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) lobbied hard for years for a 5 word amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

			“There Shall Be Open Borders.”

			Are you also excited about mass immigration via open borders into your country of residence?
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	Shabbat Shalom to one and all.		Shabbat Shalom to one and all.
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	\|content=Moral: However you voted, I have no right to judge you on your vote.		\|content=[[Morals\|Moral]]: However you voted, I have no right to judge you on your vote.

	Be generous of spirit. Let’s come back together and not waste another four years getting farther away from our best selves by arguing like fools while the CCP and others rivals watch us undo ourselves fighting.		Be generous of spirit. Let’s come back together and not waste another four years getting farther away from our best selves by arguing like fools while the CCP and others rivals watch us undo ourselves fighting.