Quantum Entanglement (A Love Story)

I'm still replaying Jung's version of Canon Rock in my head on a round the clock basis. Once I snap off the lazy express that will be a fun song to work through.

Susie's nervous about some upcoming project, so Tuma gives her a litany of strategy and expectations to have.

Susie is both excited and surprised, so she goes across the hall and tells Betty everything Tuma said.

Betty then thinks that Tuma is a complete freak and a power hungry sociopath, so she goes down the hall to Billy's office and tells him everything she heard.

But Betty is totally inept and gets most of the story wrong. And each new person in the telephone line gets even more corrupted information.

Eventually no one in the office trusts Tuma.

Which is when things really get out of hand LOL.

No, the universe as a whole is not in a constant, rapid cycle of being fully created and destroyed so quickly that we don't notice it. That specific idea doesn't align with mainstream physics or observations, but your question touches on several real (and fascinating) concepts in modern cosmology and quantum gravity that give a somewhat similar "flux" feeling at extremely tiny scales.Here's a breakdown of the closest scientific ideas and why they don't quite match a whole-universe on-off flickering:Quantum foam and spacetime fluctuationsAt the tiniest imaginable scales — around the Planck length (10⁻³⁵ meters) and Planck time (10⁻⁴³ seconds) — quantum mechanics and general relativity suggest spacetime isn't smooth. It's thought to be a turbulent, "foamy" structure where geometry itself fluctuates wildly.Virtual particle-antiparticle pairs constantly pop into existence and annihilate almost instantly in the vacuum (this is well-tested via effects like the Casimir force).
In quantum gravity approaches (like those inspired by Wheeler's "spacetime foam"), spacetime could briefly form tiny wormholes, microscopic black holes, or other wild topological features that appear and disappear on Planck timescales.
This creates a seething, ever-changing "foam" where space, time, and matter-energy are in constant microscopic flux.

This happens everywhere, all the time — including right now, right where you are sitting — but the effects are confined to subatomic (actually sub-sub-subatomic) scales. Macroscopic objects, planets, stars, and the observable universe as a whole remain perfectly stable because these fluctuations average out completely at larger scales. We don't experience it because the timescale is insanely short and the spatial scale is insanely small — way beyond anything our senses or even most instruments can probe directly.Vacuum fluctuations and the origin of the universeSome models propose the entire universe arose from a single, large-scale quantum fluctuation in a vacuum state (e.g., Edward Tryon's 1973 idea, or later developments in quantum cosmology). In "nothing" (really a quantum vacuum full of potential energy), a fluctuation could produce a bubble of inflating spacetime that becomes our Big Bang.But this is usually a one-time (or rare) event for our universe patch — not an ongoing creation/destruction cycle for the whole cosmos we inhabit. Eternal inflation extends this: inflation keeps going forever in some regions, spawning new "bubble universes" endlessly, while others (like ours) stop inflating and become normal expanding space. So universes are constantly being "created" in the larger multiverse, but our observable universe isn't flickering in and out.Cyclic or oscillating universe modelsOlder ideas (like some early 20th-century cyclic cosmologies or certain modern loop quantum cosmology bounces) involve the universe contracting to a high-density state and rebounding in a new expansion — potentially repeating forever. But:Current evidence strongly favors eternal expansion (accelerated by dark energy), not future contraction.
No rapid on-off cycle; any hypothetical cycles would take trillions of years, not femtoseconds.

In short: the whole universe isn't rapidly blinking in and out of existence. But spacetime is in violent, constant microscopic flux at the deepest levels — particles and antiparticles wink in and out, and perhaps spacetime geometry itself bubbles chaotically — all happening so fast and so small that the larger world looks smooth, stable, and continuous to us.It's one of the trippiest implications of combining quantum mechanics with gravity: reality might be built on an underlying froth of near-instant creation and destruction, but only at scales where "reality" as we know it hasn't really formed yet.

The Electric Triangle will be a cool instrument in the future. While I'm a sucker for strings and winds, I also really ****ing like chimes and bells.

I don't know why *exactly* tournaments play differently than cash. I LDO know there is ****ing scarecity and a timer in tournaments, but I don't know how to synthesize how the psychology changes in any appreciable way.

It's a matter of incentives, duhh.

I'm done trying to get started at learing a new language. I only speak English and read Hebrew and THAT IS ENOUGH. There is more than a lifetime's worth of nuance to uncode in my own language it would be a disservice to humanity if I devoted myself to learning a new one.

Maybe you could try learning Toki Pona? Should only take about 30 hours.

Yup. I definitely screwed the pooch for my 'keeping a regular schedule of things' ambition, lol.

You should buy a glockenspiel!

Also I'm a big fan of the NES, with TECMO SUPER BOWL being perhaps the greatest football game ever created. One of my biggest gambling wins stemmed from a late night series of matches against my idiot friend who would never kick field goals much to his detriment.

Nice man. My best game was Ken Griffey for N64. I don't recall ever losing once to a human in my entire life.

We played a ton of the Madden Series with the neighborhood guys. My best game was '03, it had Marshall Faulk on the cover and the RAMS were truly the greatest show on earth. There was an invinceable play called "HB FLY" or something, a 4-receiver set with Faulk in the Backfield - 4 verticles with Faulk being the fifth being picked up by a linebacker or safety you had no chance of covering him and Warner had elite accuracy.

One time I was up early playing MLBFKGJR in my pajamas when I heard a knock on the window and my neighbor who was friends with a lot of older kids had shown up with one of them to challenge me at my best game. He was actually pretty good and gave me some of my best action. I beat him in a very close game, and then he wagered a freeroll for his cell phone pager that he had probably stolen and I won that too.

Then we went to a parking lot to play home run derby, to continue the gambling. He was twice my size and played Travel Ball - I was still a young house ball player.

Wow. The previous page of this blog is straight up insane. It's like it's taken on a life of it's own and grown up to be a total badass.

More good stuff to come I'm sure. I actually improvise nearly every post.

I'm not sure there is anyone more dedicated to their craft in the world right now.

It's like I'm on a never ending train (of thought) ride. I'm coursing through every tunnel, valley, crater, and gulch in the milky way, all while keeping a scrapbook of the greatest sights and sounds.

Critics who say, "I hate Christian Rock" to this song, they really don't know what they're missing.

I'll always need a tiny bit of an ego to give me my best creative juice.

If that's a real flaw, I apologize.

I just took a short nap on my new Mattress from Serta. Wow, that was sorely needed. I might be a little like superman to be able to post well on just 2 hours of sleep day after but I assure you there is some fatigue along the way.

and my new tom dwan style for microstake poker is still the real deal, but might not be possible to do while multi tabling. trying to juggle all of the shapes at once made the calculation less clear.

and the new weed from the dispo sucks. sucks majorly. i can smoke it for sleep but anything resembling creative beauty goes to the hayside.

if you're reading this blog and you grow insanely good weed, i will send you my home address to mail me some as thank you for the work that i do.

Tiny bit of an ego, and also a galaxy-sized chip on my shoulder that I'm no longer willing to give up. That means if you received silent bounty information from me over the years I want you to *abort the mission* and return home.