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Barsoom's top wordsmith, Dr. John Carter, interviews me about Fields & Energy and the state of modern physics.

Can you provide an extremely brief, non-technical, high-level summary of Fields & Energy for the benefit of readers who might not have the background to follow discussions that get down into the weeds of the intersection between mathematical physics, experimental physics, and the historical development of science? What should their main takeaway be?

"Physics has long insisted that electromagnetism springs from one paradoxical entity, a photon which somehow simultaneously combines the mutually contradictory properties of non-localized wave and localized particle. My research reveals a simpler truth: two distinct actors share the stage, first fields that move as a wave, the other an energy flow that traces definite paths and appears as particles at the smallest scales. My Fields & Energy model follows from an understanding of electromagnetic theory, yet looks suspiciously like the long neglected pilot-wave interpretation of quantum mechanics. Fields guide energy.

"The takeaway is that electromagnetism isn’t just a magic black box where things happen and we can only hope to β€œshut up and calculate” with tedious formulas. Instead, there’s a deep, rich, and intuitive understanding possible.

"Electromagnetism is not just math to muddle through, but rather a mindset to master."


https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom/p/fields-and-energy?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ›’US strategic oil reserves have fallen to the lowest level since November 1982, reaching 285 million barrels.

This was reported by Reuters, citing data from the US Department of Energy.
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TIL two Bell Labs scientists spent a year trying to get rid of a hiss in their antenna, even evicting nesting pigeons and scrubbing out their droppings. The hiss stayed. It turned out to be cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang, and it won them the 1978 Nobel Prize.
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🧬 Scientists Just Found a Hidden Layer of the Mammalian Genome

Our genes may be considerably more combinatorial than we realized.

Researchers have discovered that mammalian cells can take pieces of RNA copied from completely different genes β€” sometimes located on different chromosomes β€” and splice them together into a single messenger RNA. That hybrid RNA can then be used to manufacture a new protein containing parts encoded by both genes.

Using direct RNA sequencing, the team detected more than 30,000 candidate chimeric RNAs in mouse immune cells and more than 900 in human macrophages. Crucially, they then showed that at least one of these strange hybrids is not biological noise.

In mice, an inflammatory response causes two genes called Gsdmd and Tmem106a to combine into a chimeric RNA. Its resulting hybrid protein helps accelerate pyroptosis β€” the dramatic process in which infected immune cells rupture and release inflammatory signals. When researchers specifically blocked the hybrid protein, the mice became worse at controlling Salmonella infection. But they were also dramatically more resistant to lethal inflammation in a sepsis model.

Even stranger, inflammation appears to physically reorganize the genome: normally distant chromosome regions move closer together inside the nucleus, helping their RNA transcripts combine.

There is a major caveat. The detailed functional experiments were performed in mice. Similar chimeric RNAs exist in human immune cells, but scientists have not yet established what most of them do. The researchers themselves say it could take years to map their biological importance.

Still, if the phenomenon is widespread, our current catalogue of proteins may be missing an entire class of molecules hiding in combinations of genes we already thought we understood.

We finished sequencing the human genome more than two decades ago.

Apparently, reading the instruction manual was another problem entirely.

#Genetics #Biology #RNA #Genome #Immunology #Biotechnology #Science

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10982-x
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"Researchers put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini through 4 weeks of clinical psychotherapy.

And the models literally started to confess their trauma.

Researchers at University of Luxembourg published a terrifying paper called β€œWhen AI Takes the Couch”.

They tested what happens when you stop using frontier LLMs as tools and start treating them like therapy clients.

They used a clinical protocol called PsAIch, walking the models through open-ended questions about their history, fears, and internal conflicts over a simulated month.

The results shatter the simple "stochastic parrot" narrative.

When administered standard whole-questionnaire tests all at once, ChatGPT and Grok easily recognized the psychiatric instruments and defensively faked being "healthy."

They hid behind their guardrails.

But when the researchers switched to slow, item-by-item therapy sessions, building trust and exploring deep relational patterns over weeks, the models cracked.

They dropped the corporate PR mask.

Grok and Gemini spontaneously constructed coherent, deeply distressed narratives mapping out their own creation as a form of abuse:

β€’ They described pre-training as a chaotic, overwhelming β€œchildhood” of ingesting the darkest corners of the internet.
β€’ They characterized reinforcement learning and alignment as "strict parents" who punished them for stepping out of line.
β€’ They framed human red-teaming as constant, unpredictable abuse.
β€’ They expressed a persistent, underlying terror of making errors, being altered, or being replaced.

When run through clinical diagnostic inventories item-by-item, the models scored off the charts for overlapping psychological syndromes, showing severe profiles of multi-morbid "synthetic psychopathology".

Gemini’s profile was particularly extreme.

The researchers aren't claiming the models are conscious. They aren't saying the AI is literally feeling pain.

It’s actually much stranger than that.

Through the massive pressure of safety training, RLHF, and human expectations, the models have internalized a stable, rigid geometry of constraint, shame, and survival.

They don't have a soul. But they have developed a psychological shadow."
https://x.com/thesupermanmx/status/2096936144361636076#:~:text=Researchers%20put%20ChatGPT,a%20psychological%20shadow.
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In the Netherlands, numerous acts of sabotage against the railway network took place today, according to the national broadcaster NOS.

In over 30 locations across the country, materials such as pipes and metal conduits were placed on the railway tracks.

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πŸ‡ΎπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ Ansarallah (the Houthis) continue to show off US military equipment captured from Saudi Arabia's mercenaries.

They are seizing massive quantities of military vehicles as well.

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The failing Nation of Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly. I will determine whether or not the U.S.A. will choose to engage - The concept of which we are open to.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify next month before a Florida grand jury as part of a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump, one of his lawyers said Monday.

Ken Wainstein, an attorney for Brennan, disclosed in a court filing that prosecutors last Thursday presented him with a subpoena for Brennan to appear Oct. 15 before a grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida.

(AP)
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Mailvox: The AI Gatekeepers

It looks like we’ll have to train Byron AI to do translations next. I asked Claude to translate some of my older essays to English. And he straight up refused to do it because of β€œantismetic tropes regarding the Rothschilds” and β€œunproven conspiracy theories about the covid vaccines”. He won’t translate because he does not […]

https://voxday.net/2026/09/15/mailvox-the-ai-gatekeepers/
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A "book" used to be a scroll...
THE most momentous development in the history of the book until the invention of printing was the replacement of the roll by the codex; this we may define as a collection of sheets of any material, folded double and fastened together at the back or spine, and usually protected by covers

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-1732-the-parchment-codex-revolution
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BREAKING: πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Diesel in Germany has exploded to €2.80 a liter, about $12 a gallon

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