Walpurgisnacht

Up into the evening sky rise Tonight the magic melodies Wild folk and Lilith's ways Luring winds, secretly ride Let us wander to the fires Whispering, reaching for the stars Good and evil words alike Let us carry them on and on tonight In the willows our dreams will resound And the winds will sing our songs Let us leap with the sparks over the fire On Walpurgis Night! Hear the violins, hear the violins The fires are lit! Follow the dance, follow the dance On Walpurgis Night! Impetuous in the play of the violins Our nightly dance spins And we join, wild and free, This ancient magic Just once in the great circle We dance in this way Until the first light of dawn Our dream woven fabric breaks In the willows our dreams will resound And the winds will sing our songs Let us leap with the sparks over the fire On Walpurgis Night! Hear the violins, hear the violins The fires are lit! Follow the dance, follow the dance On Walpurgis Night!

Right Angle Simile in Multis (Shapes vs Virtues)

 

Commensurating Pythagorean InCommensurables

Cardinal Virtues-

Courage:Temperance::Wisdom:Justice

Life Origins: The Impact Hypothesis

On Man Made Asstoorhoids...

from Google AI:

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the US-Israel-Iran conflict in early 2026 has triggered a global fertilizer crisis, with roughly 30% of global urea and nitrogen exports restricted. As of April 2026, over 220,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer are stranded daily, pushing up prices by over 30%. This impacts essential crop yields—including maize and rice—at the height of spring planting, threatening global food security.

Key Impacts of the Nitrogen Crisis: 

• Stranded Supplies: Over 1 million metric tons of nitrogen fertilizer are trapped in the Gulf.
• Price Shock: Nitrogen-rich urea prices have surged over 30%, increasing food production costs worldwide.
• Production Halt: Major producers are declaring force majeure, reducing global supply and increasing the likelihood of long-term shortages.
• Global Exposure: Developing countries in Asia and South America are most affected, with countries like the Philippines facing risks to their agricultural sectors, says the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Food Insecurity: The inability of farmers to access or afford fertilizer to fertilize crops is expected to result in significantly reduced crop yields in the coming months.

The Fertilizer-Fuel Link

Nitrogen fertilizers are produced using natural gas. The crisis in the Gulf has caused both a scarcity of fertilizer products and a rise in energy costs, creating a "perfect storm" for agricultural production, notes Adam Hanieh. Fertilizer manufacturers, unable to ship their products, face operational shutdowns.

Impact on Food Production

According to War on the Rocks, the interruption of urea shipments occurs during critical planting times, threatening the maximum yields of crops like corn, wheat, and rice. Many farmers may reduce fertilizer usage or skip the planting season, creating a lingering effect on food availability.

Long-Term Consequences

Experts warn that the disruption could lead to prolonged food shortages and higher food prices, as stated in UN News. Even if the blockade ends, the time needed to restart production and restore supply chains will likely lead to a "new normal" of elevated prices, according to Reddit and The Verge.

mr. ducky's obsession...

...and tribute.  I miss you!

Slavoj....

Neutrinos: Back to the 4th... er-r-r-r 8th Dimension!

...and then there were none.

Ten Little Indians

Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; 

One choked his little self and then there were nine. 

Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; 

One overslept himself and then there were eight. 

Eight little Indian boys traveling in Devon; 

One said he'd stay there and then there were seven. 

Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; 

One chopped himself in halves and then there were six. 

Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; 

A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. 

Five little Indian boys going in for law; 

One got in Chancery and then there were four. 

Four little Indian boys going out to sea; 

A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. 

Three little Indian boys walking in the zoo; 

A big bear hugged one and then there were two. 

Two Little Indian boys sitting in the sun; 

One got frizzled up and then there was one. 

One little Indian boy left all alone; 

He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

The Event: Particles, Primes, and Other Fundamental Ontological Building Blocks

 

Badiou vs Deleuze & Guattari

The Simili in Multis

from Google AI:

Particles, in modern physical and philosophical interpretations, are increasingly understood not as fundamental, enduring "little balls of matter," but as ontological events or ephemeral, local, and discrete manifestations of underlying, continuous fields. This perspective treats particles as "primes"—the irreducible units or "atoms" of interaction—that only exist when they are created, destroyed, or exchanged, effectively making the act of interaction (an event) the fundamental reality.

Particles as Ontological Events

Epiphenomena of Fields: In quantum field theory (QFT), particles are interpreted as localized excitations or "ripples" of quantum fields, acting as "epiphenomena" rather than the fundamental substance.

Interaction-dependent Existence: A particle is better understood as a conserved exchange of properties (energy, momentum, charge) rather than a continuously existing object. They are "events" that occur when fields interact, not permanent, independent entities.

Events over Substance: This view shifts the ontology from a "substance ontology" (fields or particles as things) to an "event ontology," where the basic building blocks of reality are events of measurement or interaction, such as those described in Haag’s Local Quantum Physics.

Particles as Primes (Irreducible Units)

Indivisible Interactors: Particles are "prime" in the sense that they are the minimal, discrete units of energy or angular momentum exchanged between systems.

Prime Matter (Aristotelian view): Some modern interpretations draw on Aristotelian "prime matter," seeing it as an "indivisible and atomless bare particularity" that acts as an enduring substrate of fields, which manifests as particles.

Numerical Identity: In Quantum Field Theory, particles of the same type are conceptually indistinguishable, meaning they lack individual identity, which reinforces the view that it is the type of interaction (event) that defines the particle, not its own intrinsic nature.

Implications of this Ontology 

Primitive Ontology: PO approaches in quantum mechanics, such as the "flashes" theory (GRWf), suggest that these "events" or "spots" in spacetime are the fundamental, primitive entities from which macrophysical objects are composed.

Measurement and Time: These models suggest that quantum events (such as wavefunction collapse) occur in a present-centered way, emphasizing that the "event" or "interaction" is the moment that makes reality definite.

Ontic Structural Realism: Given that particles cannot be clearly defined, some philosophers argue that the fundamental, persistent entities are actually the mathematical structures (relations) of the fields, rather than the particles themselves.

More from Google AI:

Prime numbers are considered the "atomic particles" of mathematics because, like physical atoms, they are the fundamental building blocks from which all other integers are constructed via multiplication. Recent research has furthered this analogy by modeling prime numbers as physical particles to discover hidden patterns.

Key Aspects of Particles and Primes:

• The Analogy: Just as physical particles combine to form complex matter, prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, ...) multiply to form composite integers, as outlined by the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic.
• Modeling as Physical Matter: Researchers, including Salvatore Torquato, modeled prime numbers as a one-dimensional "liquid" or "solid" of particles (spheres) to study their arrangement.
• Hidden Structure: By subjecting this "prime gas" to virtual X-ray diffraction, researchers discovered that primes behave like a quasicrystal—a material with ordered, but non-repeating, aperiodic structure.
• Surprising Order: Contrary to the belief that primes are distributed randomly, this "particle" approach shows they possess a "hidden order" or "fractal chaos".
• Connection to Physics: This "prime-number-as-particle" approach allows mathematicians to use tools from material science and statistical mechanics to analyze the distribution of primes. Some researchers even link prime structures in complex fields to particle physics concepts like leptons and hadrons.

This perspective offers a new way to understand the Riemann hypothesis and the overall distribution of prime numbers.

May the 4th Be with You!

Progressive Liberals Weaponized "Shame"...

 ...and Monetized Trauma thru DEI Racial Guilt-Pride and Academic Post-Colonialism, and so now Leftists can complain about the Right's "Shamelessness".  Talk about wanting to have their cake and eat it too...

 "Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals"

-Slavoj Zizek

So "who" do you think Shamed the Right into Shamelessness, Slavoj?