Excess Heat

  Alex Combs used Fable 5 to generate a slide deck to summarize Chapter 7 of GUTCP .  I have struggled with reading GUTCP.  I have taken a lot of math courses.  I got A's in calculus and believe that I had a pretty good grasp of the math in the courses that followed, although I did not master the material.  I can understand the math in GUTCP, one line at a time.  To digest a piece of it, and then relate it to the material that came before it and after it would be a feat that is too much for me at this point in my life.  It requires a fluency with the math, which is "just" electromagnetics, that I could have tackled as a teenager, but to be honest, I cannot say that I have a solid grasp on most of the book.  I am not the one to look to as an expert on this, but Dr. Phillips is (assuming you don't wish to read GUTCP), and his series is geared for maybe a sophomore science student level. What matters is the basics.  The force balance equations ...

The history of efforts to conceptualize the extremely small is ancient.  The two opposing schools were particle and aetheric.  At different times, it was generally believed that extremely small pieces (Greek: 'a tomos', literally not cuttable, or irreducible to smaller parts) comprised everything, as opposed to everything was made of some materia prima.  This historical sequence is a fine way to tour the way people came to understand what could never be examined directly with the senses on the smallest scale of size.  The fact that the conceptualizations became empirically testable is of paramount importance, a testament to human persistence and ingenuity. In 1913, Bohr introduced his model of the atom, which gave us the well known image that everyone has when picturing an atom.  However impossible it was, it was so useful.  It was a big step toward making sense of line spectral data that had been empirically fit with the Rydberg formula that matched at lea...

Dr Christine Grady, former Director of NIH Bioethics and wife of Dr Anthony Fauci after his US Senate Hearing on July 29, 2026 were he was disgraced and humiliated by US Senators for his corrupt actions. They're in such total denial of the devastation all around us and are certain that as long as the messengers are all shot, then all is well. Please forgive me for displaying the vulgarity, but it highlights what may be the most relevant lesson from the suffering of Semmelweis, as it relates to the failures of medicine.  The photo and caption were clipped from an email from Dr. Peter McCullough. A related story is the recent publication of a book by a retired Pfizer toxicologist, The Vaccine Mafia . Nobody disputes that Dr.  Semmelweis made a great discovery, although he didn't understand what exactly it was. He published his observations and many people became aware of them. Many people participated in the experiments where he divided a cohort of patients into 2 g...