Friday, 5 December 2025

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

It's a bit chilly out there this morning, 23° F, but no snow; there's snow all around us except the good old Peninsula. It's 2:15 AM, and here I am sitting in the corner of the couch with my laptop, typing out the news, well, at least until I get sleepy enough to sleep, and continue later this morning. Physically, I feel good, no discomfort, just not tired.

So here I am doing what floats my boat. There was a hole in the boat, and it wouldn't float, so I had to get Mrs. Holt, the old goat, to hold the rope so we wouldn't sink. But here I stand as the boat sinks and I go slowly under with the flow, I salute as I sing

"O CANADA OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND!" ♪♫♭🍁

Had a strange thought go through my mind, yeah, that happens frequently. But this one just wouldn't simply register itself in my memory bank until later in the morning.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

"PLEASE READ THROUGH AND WATCH THE VIDEO."

Not just read, feel it.

THE BIG BANG

Or, how many big bangs?

Multiverses?

If the multiverses were stacked like a deck of cards, which card are we on

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Dark energy expanding till it creates another big bang.

Dark energy currently drives accelerating expansion, but some theories, like the Big Bounce or oscillating universe models, suggest dark energy could change, causing contraction (a "Big Crunch") followed by another Big Bang, creating a cosmic cycle, though current data suggests eternal expansion might be more likely unless dark energy's properties shift significantly.

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Actual and potential infinity

In the philosophy of mathematics, the abstraction of actual infinity, also called completed infinity,[1] involves infinite entities as given, actual, and completed objects. Actual infinity is to be contrasted with potential infinity, in which an endless process (such as "add 1 to the previous number") produces a sequence with no last element, and where each individual result is finite and is achieved in a finite number of steps. This type of process occurs in mathematics, for instance, in standard formalizations of the notions of mathematical induction, infinite series, infinite products, and limits.[2]

The concept of actual infinity was introduced into mathematics near the end of the 19th century by Georg Cantor with his theory of infinite sets, and was later formalized into Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. This theory, which is presently commonly accepted as a foundation of mathematics, contains the axiom of infinity, which means that the natural numbers form a set (necessarily infinite). A great discovery of Cantor is that, if one accepts infinite sets, then there are different sizes (cardinalities) of infinite sets, and, in particular, the cardinal of the continuum of the real numbers is strictly larger than the cardinal of the natural numbers...

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Information Is Never Lost

The statement "information is never lost" refers to a fundamental principle in quantum mechanics that is central to the black hole information paradox, a major scientific debate that physicist Brian Cox discusses extensively in his work.

The Black Hole Information Paradox

Quantum Theory Principle: The laws of quantum mechanics state that information about the quantum state of particles can never be completely lost or destroyed, only transformed. This is a cornerstone of modern physics.

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Brian Cox's information is never lost, if you burn a newspaper

That statement is a quote often attributed to physicist Brian Cox. He used this as a simple illustration of the laws of physics regarding information conservation.

The idea is that although the meaning of the words is destroyed for a human reader, all the physical information—the energy, the chemical composition of the ash and smoke, and the heat releasedis dispersed but fundamentally preserved in the universe. If one could theoretically track every single particle, one could (in principle) reverse the process and reconstruct the original newspaper.

Information, quantum mechanics, big band, and infinite potentialities: the micro- or quantum-verses creating a new Big Bang or an infinity of them either by inflation or deflation of the multiverses. This one we live in is only one layer, one card out of a deckful. The one we call the present. What about all the other cards in the deck of infinity, past and present?

Thank you, Brian Cox, for adding more pieces to the puzzle.

Back before computers, it may have taken me a good part of a day in a library to find all this information, but it's there for the looking.

And here we are mucking about in the mud down here like a bunch of knuckle-dragging Neanderthals slinging 💩 at each other, instead of harmonizing, being one with nature, all those beautiful harmonics and colors, the wonderful, glorious, amazing, stunning, overwhelming, and awe-inspiring experience of discovering what awaits us in the multiverses.

BREAKING NEWS:

Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers

The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to three sources with direct knowledge of his congressional briefings.

As far back as September, defense officials have been quietly pushing back on criticism that killing the two survivors amounted to a war crime by arguing, in part, that they were legitimate targets because they appeared to be radioing for help or backup — reinforcements that, if they had received it, could have theoretically allowed them to continue to traffic the drugs aboard their sinking ship.

Defense officials made that claim in at least one briefing in September for congressional staff, according to a source familiar with the session, and several media outlets cited officials repeating that justification in the last week. But Thursday, Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley acknowledged that the two survivors of the military’s initial strike...

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Updated Dec 4, 2025, 7:41 PM ET - Updated 8 hr ago

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Anxiety grips Minneapolis’s Somali community as immigration agents zero in on the Twin Cities

Minneapolis

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Everything seemed normal at Minneapolis’s Somali markets: Men sat in barber chairs, women browsed colorful garments at the boutiques and patrons sampled fried sambusas and rice dishes at the eateries, sometimes as the Muslim call to prayer was sung at low volume over the loudspeakers.

But beneath the calm surface, a quiet anxiety was palpable. Pockets and purses hung a little heavier with immigration documents and passports as the specter of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown loomed over the gathering spots for the Somali diaspora in the Twin Cities – home to the nation’s largest population of people from the East African country...

Carrying ID cards and papers out of fear:
Trump’s comments ‘demean a whole community’:
Mixed opinions within the community:

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Updated Dec 4, 2025, 5:26 AM ET - Updated 22 hr ago

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Carney to meet Trump on sidelines of FIFA event, as U.S. president threatens to leave trade agreement

U.S. business leaders defended CUSMA trade agreement at hearing in Washington Thursday

The Latest

Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the FIFA World Cup Draw event in Washington on Friday:
Trump could decide next year to withdraw from CUSMA, U.S. Trade *Representative Jamieson Greer said in a report from Politico released Thursday:
Greer also said the U.S. might divide the agreement into two, with the U.S. negotiating separately with Canada and Mexico:
Business leaders defended the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade (CUSMA) during the second day of hearings on the trade deal in Washington Thursday:

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Updated December 4, 2025 - 13 hours ago

CANADIAN NEWS:

Investors fear an AI bubble. What about computer scientists?

Transformative tech is real, experts say, but we may still be in a short-term bubble

Fears of an AI bubble overlook where tech experts believe a lot of real value in the AI economy will come from: not large language models themselves, but in what we'll build on top of them. It's early days, but we're already starting to see useful applications. Already, AI can help you code, detect spam for you and, perhaps controversially, generate increasingly realistic videos on the spot.

Those in the tech industry compare it to the internet: a general-purpose technology that will generate real economic value from innovations built to work with it. And yet, fears are mounting that this potential revolution is built on an expensive bubble. Valuations are high, and four Silicon Valley giants alone are expected to spend an eye-watering $400 billion US on AI this year. But beyond the stock market nerves, what do actual computer scientists think of the prospects for AI?...