Benjamin Franklin on La Part Maudite (Accursed Share)

Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 25 Dec. 1783

The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell'd to pay by some Law.

All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

Hans Georg Moeller, "How to Think Like a German" (or a Woke American Progressive)

Morally Superior Satire is BACK!

Entropic Time?...

From Google AI:

A Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) is an exotic state of matter formed when a gas of bosons is cooled to temperatures just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. At this ultra-cold threshold, atoms lose their individual identities and merge into a single macroscopic quantum "superatom" that behaves like a single wave. 

How It Works

At normal temperatures, atoms behave like individual, bouncing particles. According to quantum mechanics, these particles also exhibit wave properties. As the temperature drops, the speed of the atoms decreases, causing their quantum-mechanical wavelengths to stretch and expand. 

When the gas gets cold enough, the wavelengths of all the individual atoms overlap and synchronize. They all fall into the same lowest quantum energy state, effectively transforming a cloud of separate atoms into a single, cohesive entity.

Discovery and Physics

The phenomenon was theorized by Albert Einstein and Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose in 1924–1925. However, it wasn't until 1995 that scientists were first able to achieve the necessary, ultra-cold temperatures (nearing 0 K) using advanced laser and magnetic cooling techniques. Physicists Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle were awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for this breakthrough. 

Applications and Importance

Because BECs act as one giant quantum wave, they allow physicists to study quantum mechanics on a macroscopic, visible scale. This has led to the development of "atom lasers" and incredibly precise sensors. BECs are also used as analogs in astrophysics to study the extreme conditions of neutron stars and the early universe. 

For a visual breakdown of how this state of matter is achieved by trapping and cooling atoms using lasers and magnetic fields:

Nobel Laureate explains Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC)

...or Quantum Time?