Unification of General Relativity with Quantum Field Theory is the greatest mystery of physics, the holy grail of theoretical physics, and also a graveyard of theories. Everyone who has chosen has chosen poorly so far. Working on this problem from another point of view than the usual one I have been lead to the same basic insight as is found in string theory. That at some fundamental level the universe can be described exactly given either enough harmonic oscillators, or the right set of variables in which the behavior is that of a harmonic oscillator.

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo for quite a while.  While I have not read it I did watch a very long presentation by DiAngelo on the book which has to be the next best thing.  She is a brilliant presenter, and anyone be you Kyle Kulinski or Tucker Carlson or Ben Shapiro should at least watch her talk about it.  

DiAngelo’s basic thesis is that White people in the Americas find it difficult to talk about the historical and systemic racism that has shaped live in the Americas.    That system is, as she put it, one which placed white people (Anglo or Hispanic white people) at the center as the standard of humanity with Black people as the ultimate racial other.    

Flat earthers are a thing in 2020.  Here is a simple do at home proof it is round given a large enough area of apparently flat land. Take a tripod like one would use for a camera and mount a laser pointer on it.  Lasers have the feature of being very well collimated, so their light does not die out in the same way as that from an ordinary light.   Point it at a paper target, attached to a car, and mark where the light falls.  It can help to point a camera at the paper target and record as this happens.

Peace Officers should mostly replace police officers, but a police force of some kind is needed. Police would only be called in once a situation has proven, after a sustained non violent effort by peace officers, to require force.  Peace officers should be thoroughly civilian, never in the military, or at least out of the military for a long period of time 7-10 years minimum.   Police officers should be an armed, trained, militarized last resort. Anyone who thinks that a force of last resort is not required is living in a fantasy.  The problem with policing could be summarized as force being the first resort too often.

Defund the police or even abolish the police is a politically ignorant statement especially because when asked they who say it describe extensive reforms.  Those words mean no money, and no police.  Just like abolishing slavery didn’t mean make slavery a little different but still have slavery it means no more slavery! Just use the word reform if that is what you mean.  We can start by amending the constitution of the United States to empower the federal government to police the police.

Black people are no angels but when we are not being angelic, we still should have rights.  All people should have the same rights when under the power of law enforcement that they do when they are free.  No rights are without bounds, obviously someone in custody has rights that are greatly curtailed yet those rights still exist in some limited form.  I propose we amend the constitution of the United States of America to make it clear that the police have a duty to protect the lives of people under their power.