FRACTAL ECONOMICS

  It has been a week at the cutting edge of AI. There was no plan to it, but what I experienced in three days of this week at the cutting edge of humanity, I think. And it really has me thinking. On Tuesday, I spent the morning listening to our close family friend defend his PhD on the topic of machine learning and, basically, AI. It was right at the cutting edge and something I can tune into with my insights from fractal, and my family friend knows that. When we get together and start talking, it is quite a conversation. Part of his thesis addressed the question: Can your automated car safely pull out and pass a truck? So simple, yet so complex. And one of the biggest questions I think you would all agree on the planet. Of course, my brain is firing, thinking about economics: costs, biases, rationality, etc., and I know the fractal, from my work, has things to say about this. I thought that this is evolution; answer that question and replicate it; that's the beginning of a totall...

Universe is 640 times older than we think Update: I have since writing this blog published this paper: Normalisation of CMB Redshift with Local Hubble Redshift Values Increases the Age of the Universe to 8.8 Trillion Years Not 13.8 billion years old, but 8.8 trillion years old. (Madness!) For a while now, I have had Sunday mornings as a special time to work on things that I haven't touched on in a while, as a break away from writing. This morning, within 20 minutes less, I cracked something that is of real interest, the real age of the universe. I don't care if I'm out or crude, but it makes a lot more sense, and it has me thinking even more. I have not been able to reconcile the current claimed age of the universe is some 13.8 billion years — say 14. I think it is older. This age is all derived from astronomical observations and cosmological models. Two other strange things: how can we have the CMB (that has cooled from around 3000 Kelvin to 2.7 Kelvin temperature), and...

 The following is my Sunday thought, and it came to me in the last half hour. I have long been wondering about what is going on with our universe and our current interpretation of it. Of course, I have a theory about the large-scale structure of the universe: that it is a fractal, an inverted fractal. That theory has had no traction, but it allows me to think freely, perhaps more freely than others. And I have no skin in the game.  The following are my thoughts this morning on the age of the universe. I have recently been thinking that we are getting a distorted picture (more than we think) of the universe and are not taking into account special relativity at its outer reaches. I also think that our current age of the universe — 13.8 billion years old — is too young. I think this number is about as wrong as thinking the Earth is 3000 or 4000 years old. I think we need to be thinking 'deep cosmic time', like Hutton's geological deep time, and if this is true then the age of ...

Cosmic Dissonance: Big Bang CMB wrong? Here I go again. I just wrote this comment on astrophysicist Dr Becky's channel . I'll probably hear nothing, lol, but.. I actually got this idea in my dreams, listening to a cosmology audiobook, as I do. I was arguing in my dream with what I was hearing, and when I woke up, I said, "Wooo! That's a pretty cool idea." My comment. I call it cosmic dissonance. ( CMB is the cosmic microwave background , and the EMS, is the electromagnetic spectrum - check them out). "How is it that the CMB (which apparently is the decayed/cooled signature of the hot big bang) is right by stars that can be observed in the visible (of the EMS)? How can we have 'snapshots in time' observations of stars, but the CMB is not a snapshot; it has, by all accounts, cooled to the microwave, some 2 Kelvin, from an 'infinite' temperature at the same/similar location as the observed stars. I think your CMB is a red herring. It's in...

The topic of this post is my claim that the Internet is separating us. That it is like the electricity used to separate the atoms in the molecule H2O the negative and the positive, oxygen and the hydrogen, what is called in chemistry disassociation. Are we living in the age of disassociation? Where the electricity is the Internet. Just a thought.  I've been wanting to write this for some time. I have a few posts like this. I've been thinking about how, recently, more than ever in history, we have been separated and divided in our opinions. It's dividing people everywhere. Good luck trying to find somebody who is not affected. Now, what I found about the fractal is that it is a foundational geometry that points to different interpretations. It even is defined by differences. Now I think that there is only one truth to the mechanics of this fracture and the other side is an illusion. There is a duality of knowledge. I've also written on how I think the computer is affecti...

 I was about to write a diary entry but then thought, "Well, why not make it a blog entry instead?"  I was going over my thoughts on a discussion I had with my colleague in my staff room office. I teach in the IB program, and our office has a mathematician who actually works with string theory and similar — wow— language teachers, a psychology teacher, and an environmental studies teacher. But when I walked in yesterday morning, I got chatting with my physics colleague on my left.  He talked about what he was about to teach, special relativity. I said to him 'why don't you tell the students the crazy economist thinks the universe is telling us with respect to special relativity?' And he didn't remember our conversation from the past where I told them —the math teacher too — that I think the universe is a frozen image at its outer limits, the Big Bang, due to the phenomenon of special relativity. That special relativity doesn't allow us to see beyond. What ...