Monday April 14, 2025
– Full Moon Phase – illumination, realization, fulfillment, shadow, relationships, experience
– Moon in LIBRA –
– Retrogrades –
- Venus March 2 – April 13
– Best Days (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – April 14th –– Can Fruits and Vegetables, Go Hunting, Jar Jams/Jellies, Mow to Slow Growth, Prune Trees, Slaughter
– Planting Calendar (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – April 13th – 14th – Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops. Also good for leafy vegetables.
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: – 11 ARIES: the ruler of a nation
– Aspect of the Aeon Sophia: (Wisdom): – Kali – The Destroyer
– Aspect of the Aeon Thelete: (Will/Desire): Ian (God of The East)
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month – New Moon in ARIES SUN/MOON – 11 ARIES: the ruler of a nation (EARTH – 11 LIBRA: a professor peering over his glasses at his students)
SUN – 25 ARIES: a double promise reveals its inner and outer meanings
EARTH – 25 LIBRA: the sight of an autumn leaf brings to a pilgrim the sudden revelation of the mystery of life and death
Happy Monday! Find the things that inspire you. That make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity.
Over the past few weeks, I have been playing with the fringe subjects. Specifically, AI and Autism and Elon Musk and Billionaires and alternative consciousness. For me it started back in March or so after I watched theJoe Rogan Experience episode with Elon Musk.
It made me think really long and hard about a lot of uncomfortable subjects. My thoughts started as what I thought would be a single post. But there was way too much to go into
My Happy Monday quote of the day is somewhat of a bastardization of a quote from Elon. He said it during a TED-like talk which I found on Youtube after the podcast at some point. The Quote:
There are a lot of negative things in the world. There are a lot of terrible things that are happening all over the world all the time. There are lots of problems that need to get solved. There are lots of things that are miserable and kind of get you down. But life cannot be about solving one miserable problem after another. That can’t be the only thing. There need to be things that inspire you. That make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity.
It helps when you are able to attribute autistic-Elons’s childlike, semi-accented speech pattern. And despite how much listening to him grates on me, I am fascinated by this quote. It allows me to begin to understand what drives him.
And truly, I want to know what drives the man. At present, Elon is reported to be the richest man in the world, worth $365 billion. And if you spend much time listening to him, you can quickly see that he is operating on a different plane than most people.
But is he the smartest man ever? People often look to people like Albert Einstein or Nikola Tesla or Leonardo Davinci or Srinivasa Ramanujan as those who rose to the highest intelligence. But did they ever amass wealth? Tesla died broke. Einstein was worth about $65 thousand (a little more than half a million in today’s dollars). Da Vinci’s worth was more like about $100 million in today’s dollars. Ramanujan was basically broke and died of a combination of third world sicknesses like TB and dysentery,
They each changed the world. But raw intelligence, it shows, does not always lead to wealth.
Funny thing is that people matriculating through the education system studying Quantum Physics, by and large, do not make much more than I was making back in 2011 in mid management at a corporation. And I did not have a doctorate.
Truly it is what you do with the brainpower that you have. And whether you are able to do anything with the things you have learned. Jobs for physicists end up being just that: jobs. And until they discover something groundbreaking that they can use or publish, they continue to work to pay the bills.
In Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged, she relates the debate between Physics and Philosophy. Physics tells us how the universe works, while philosophy asks why it works. Can you do it vs should you do it.
And here is where Elon’s quote, to me, hits home. And possibly gives an answer more realistic than the typical leftist trope of “because he is a narcissist.”
Why Tesla? – To make a better car that is better for the world.
Why Paypal? To make a safer, better online payment system.
Why SpaceX? – To make a better rocket that will get to Mars.
Why Twitter/X? – To protect free speech.
Why Neuralink? To make human-machine interface.
Why Grok? It’s funny as hell and makes great bitcoin guesses.
Why The Boring Company? to survive underground when the SHTF
things that inspire you. That make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity.
Today is World Quantum Day
Speaking of geniuses, if you scrolled passed the Google Doodle, it made a visualization of Quantum Superposition. Quantum physics frankly baffles me. I got through Honors Chemistry and Advanced Biology in high school. But never waded into physics. My science of choice in college was astronomy, which worked well with my more mundane statistics background
I think that news and popular culture drag our big words like Quantum Superposition to prove to the audience that they are stupid and the scientists are smart. Therefore, you have to listen to whatever they say, because they are smart.
I am copying this from another site to give you an idea of what it is all about:
Today (April 14) marks 2025’s World Quantum Day, an international celebration held to promote public understanding of quantum science.
The date, 4/14, was chosen because 4.14 represents the first three digits of Planck’s constant (4.135667696 x 10-15 electron volts per hertz, rounded to 4.14 x 10-15) — an important number in quantum physics.
Quantum physics is the branch of science that deals with the tiniest particles in the universe, such as atoms, electrons, photons (light particles), and other subatomic particles like quarks.
In the everyday world, at the scale that we can see, things tend to follow the laws of classical physics. However, when you zoom all the way into the smallest particles, classical physics stops working quite as well, and the rules of quantum mechanics come into play.
I do not remember the site I found this on, but it was far easier to read and understand than the wikipedia post.
Now I know there has to be a practical use for Quantum mechanics. I still do not know what it is. Nor do I care, particularly. But I know that its applications have fueled the AI boom and the science behind how Elon will get a spacecraft to land on Mars. And that is all I really have to know.