Schrödinger, Creation, Africa and 1812

My blog thought process of the past half hour on my day off.

1. Schrödinger cat in a box
2. New idea of creation of solar system
3. Africa and social inequity
4. War of 1812

1. Cats are the coolest creations on the planet.  Independent as humans and different.  With the ability to be embarrassed.  Schödinger proposed a way to determine the state of a particle in quantum state of flux without looking at it.  A atom is in the box with the cat, if the atom decays a particle detector detects the decay and releases poison gas and kills the cat.  You can't tell whether the cat is dead or alive until you open the box.  So before you open the box the cat is both dead and alive.

So when we were kids, the family went on a weekend trip to Woodstock.  We thought the cat would be fine, a bowl of food and water and a clean litter box.  So we left and two days or so we came back and there was a full bowl of food, and water and an undisturbed litter box.  We called for the cat outside, because it must be outside.  No cat.  But we heard a meow.  From inside.

When we left, the cat was on top of the bunk beds in a box.  Cats love boxes, they can hide and feel safe and sleep.  Boxes are made of paper, cardboard.  And the cat rolled over in his sleep and the box moved.  He did it again.  He did it again and the box tipped off the wall side of the bed.  The box was just as high as the gap between the wall.  The box slid down between the wall and the bed.

If the cat was a human, he would be surprised and the cat WAS surprised, but it was a cat too so it tried to standup feet down.  The box did not hit the second bunk, because the weight was all centered down.  The box was big.  Part of the box was on the ground and part of the box was wedged between the wall and the bed.  The cat struggled but could not budge it.

I found the cat.  I lifted the box.  The cat ran for the door like lightning. 

Cats like boxes because they feel safe and they like to be able to get out a pounce.  Cats do not like to be shut in boxes.  

When Schrödinger opened the box, he hoped the cat was dead, otherwise he would have no face left, just a bloody ruin.

2. Many people talk about the creation of the solar system talking about the creation of the sun or star and the creation of the planets separately.  This is wrong and it does not make sense.  They occurred at the same time.  The mass at the center accumulated material faster because it had more gravity.  As it gathered more mass it began to spin, smaller lumps in the disc began accumulating matter as well, but they had less mass and gathered less mass and at a slower rate, but the seed of our planet started nearly at the same time as the seed of our sun.

3. We need to bail out Europe for their economy and for our economy.  We need to bail out Europe.  We need to give them a trillion dollars to save them from collapse so that we in turn do not spiral out of control and enter ten years of financial bad times.  Fuck Europe.  Fuck a European bail out.  European bail out is important, but a hundred billion dollars will mean that millions of people will have more money, but giving a billion dollars to the poor people of Africa, to modify their economy, to improve the irrigation systems to overhaul the the cash crop system of the West and allow them to feed themselves.  One billion dollars save millions of lives and prevent future deterioration of their economy and landscape and culture vs one hundred Billion to line our own pockets.

4.  War of 1812, we won!
America declared war on this day two hundred years ago, because they thought they would win with the might of the British army off fighting Napoleon.  The first shot was fired by an American in the battle of Queenston Heights, but that battle was the third conflict in the war.  The first, the British war leader Isaac Brock, knocked on the door of the governor of an American fort and stuck a gun in his face and informed him that his government had declared war a month before and he was there to tell him that and to accept his surrender.  The second battle was a lacrosse game held outside the fort of Detroit.  The ball wizzed over the forts walls and the Americans opened the gate to let them retrieve their ball.  The native people's dropped there sticks and picked up their rifles and invaded and captured Detroit.  

The key to capturing Canada was to take Quebec City and there were no battles there during the war.  

They, the Americans, burned down our parliament buildings and burned down Toronto.  They invaded and held land, they burned towns.  There were pitched battles where thousands died on both sides where the winner was the one who did not run from the field of battle, not because there was a victory, just not a defeat.  

Then Napoleon was defeated in Europe.  The British navy and army landed troops up and down the American coast burning cottage and rickette, including that place at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue in Washington that had just been finished a few years previous.

They did not accomplish their goals, they lost.  They, the Americans gained sovereignty of trade on the high seas, they won.  Manifest destiny of the America had been given a northern limit, we won, Mexico and Latin America lost.  Spain lost, Asia lost, Oceania lost.  But until 9/11, we had the longest undefended boarder on the world and a long friendship and trade partnership, that at least one side is familiar with and still maintains.