The Tire Patch Universe

The Tire Patch Universe

The measurement of background microwave anisotropy from satellites has produced a great deal of controversy and confusion in the world of theoretical physics and cosmology. These results of the last few years have led to positing the existence of cold dark matter that is causing the universe expansion rate to accelerate. This result is analogous to Einstein’s infamous cosmological constant which provide a negative pressure. Agreement on the mechanism for cold dark matter and its’ effect is, to date, tenuous at best.

Perhaps the multiverse theory from quantum mechanics can come to the rescue in a novel way. Quantum mechanics allows an infinite number of universes’ to exist. Each habited by different Feynman paths of it’s’ particles or even by different physical laws than we observe in our warm and cozy one. These multiple universes (multiverse) are causally disconnected from one another.

What about a universe that from a local perspective (like ours) is like ours, with all it’s properties but due to the peculiarity of our viewpoint is not completely visible, not dark, but out of range? Our local universe would be like an inner tube sticking out through a weak spot in the enclosing tire (a bad analogy topologically). All that we can perceive due to our chance position in spacetime is the part sticking out of the tire, a local bulge. The larger tire is out of range of our view due to the age of the universe and the slow speed of light, and the rapid expansion.

If the tire was expanding to due to an inflationary behavior, so would the bulge. It would appear in the bulge that some negative gravitational pressure was the causative agent from “unseen, i.e. cold and dark” matter. When in fact we are just going along for the ride on a much larger, simply connected, genus 0 universe than the one our biased perspective allows us to observe. No cold and dark matter and negative pressure is required.

The universe is a large and strange place. The 14 billion light year diameter bulge we live in could actually be part of something bigger and unseen. The throat connecting to the larger universe (the tire) is very far away, and even possibly very small, hence not visible to us as of yet.

Digital Democracy

Digital Democracy

True democracy would have citizens voting on all legislative action. There would be no representative government because the citizens would represent themselves.

Representative government was created in a bygone era when citizens were far apart in space and time. Distances have shrunk in the modern world so that anyplace on the earth is but a day away for physical travel (20 minutes for a ballistic missile), and a few milliseconds away for information travel via the internet. Since the circumstances that gave rise to representative government have changed perhaps it is time to move to a true democracy?

Public Key Cryptography (PKC) and the Internet provide a reliable and secure method for voting. PKC provides both the necessary authentication and authorization service the true democratic plebiscite. Voters would be required to get a public key installed on a key server and to vote as they feel fit. Congress responsibility would be relegated to preparing legislation and funding requirements and then submission to the plebiscite on a periodic basis. Legislation and funding approval would be at the discretion of the majority.

Taxpayers above the voting age would then constrain state behavior as befits a true democracy with their frequent votes on all the issues. Society at large would benefit from the owners of capital dispensing it as the majority sees fit instead of how the “elected” representatives deem. This would be a great gift to mankind, and would lead the way to proper democratization of the world.

Other Peoples Money

Other People’s Money


The spending of other people’s money is one of the great problems of modern life. Money, property the fruit of one’s labor, and the ownership rights attendant therein are the root of freedom and prosperity. As such the ownership rights of money are a battleground between man and the state.

Money is a form of capital, a concentrated form of labor. Who owns it and who dispenses of it are an issue of contention between man and the state. If the owner of money dispenses of it, in whatever fashion, spending, burying, saving, or trusting it to a proxy is consonant with natural property rights. A proxy example would be a savings account in a savings and loan, buying a stock or a bond. The capital ownership has been retained, but the usage right has been transferred on a temporary basis. In this sense it is not the spending of other’s people money since this right has been transferred knowledgeably and with permission.

Taxation is a forcible taking of private property, usually money, by the state. It is covered under the legalistic façade of societal law, but is not a natural property right since the state has no natural rights.

Inflation is unlegislated taxation by the state central bank (all countries have a fiat currency and central bank that inflates). The money supply increases arbitrarily while the goods and services produced by the economy (private individuals) has not, thus prices must increase. The benefit accrues to the state and the central bank since they have taken ownership of the private capital with this dilution. This is the reason all central banks inflate, albeit some worse than others (compare Switzerland and the United States).

Taxation and Inflation represent the dysfunctional spending of Other People’s Money since it is a violation of property rights by those charged with securing them, the state. Private disposition is functional spending since no property rights have been violated.

The evils perpetrated on mankind in the twentieth century can all be traced to forcible property taking, the dysfunctional spending of Other People’s Money. World War I and II, the Korean War and Vietnam Wars, the War in Iraq, Stalin and Mao’s purges, the famines, and all the local civil wars have been funded by forcible property taking by taxation, inflation, war bonds, and outright confiscation at gunpoint. This has all been a violation of the natural property rights of man. The greatest good attendant upon mankind would be to put this to an end once and for all time. The world would return to its natural state of peace and harmony between people and nations.

The Elevent Commandment

The Ten Commandments
There are 13 sentences in the accepted Jewish version of the Ten Commandments (17 in the Christian), yet it is difficult to ascertain with certainty from the text itself what comprises which commandments. There are 13 commandments to be found in the original, albeit translated, text. Their allocation to the Ten Commandments can be done in a variety of ways as there are different traditions. The prevailing tradition follows:
 
First Commandment (Exodus 20:2): I am the Lord Your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  
Second Commandment (Exodus 20:3-6): You shall have no other gods beside Me. You shall not make for yourself any graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them, for I, the Lord Your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Third Commandment (Exodus 20:7): You shall not take the name of the Lord Your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain.  
Fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:8-11): Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto the Lord Your God, in it you shall not do any manner of work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.  
Fifth Commandment (Exodus 20:12): Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord God gives you.  
Sixth Commandment (Exodus 20:13): You shall not murder.  
Seventh Commandment (Exodus 20:13): You shall not commit adultery.
Eighth Commandment (Exodus 20:13): You shall not steal.
Ninth Commandment (Exodus 20:13): You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.  
Tenth Commandment (Exodus 20:14):You shall not covet your neighbor's house, nor his wife, his man-servant, his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

The first four commandments are about stealing. Thou shalt not steal the respect God demands. The fifth commandment demands respectful behavior towards one’s biological parents, do not steal their respect. The sixth commandment is also about stealing. Do not steal someone else’s future through murder. The seventh commandment demands one not steal sexual fidelity from someone else. The eighth commandment is not to steal physical property belonging to another. The ninth commandment is not to steal the truth. The tenth commandment is about pre-stealing, do not covet the items referenced in commandments 5 through 9 and you will not be in danger of breaking the other commandments.

God is treating us like the children we are by re-iterating what is desired in a variety of different ways, so the lesson will get learned. No stealing, it’s a sin. Why? God is smarter than the rest of us and he knows better, and as such not stealing will lead to harmonious relations between, spouses, families, neighbors, strangers, nations and the Creator.

An eleventh commandment might be added: thou shalt not spend other people’s money. Why? It’s stealing as well, just stealing covered in a legalistic façade. This commandment would do much to restrain the great child, government from its’ covetous and thieving ways, and in the process, do much to mitigate governmental mischief and misery in the modern world.