Earth Physics, DNA & Quantum Mechanics

Posted on April 3, 2026 by Professor Taboo

Over the Easter, or Ēostre weekend I have often written about all those religious theological fallacies and rampant mistakes within Christendom that the ancient Greco-Roman Catholic Church covered up, changed, edited, omitted, etc., from the 1^st-century CE Jewish reformer Yeshua bar Yosef and then passed down to 21^st-century Protestant followers, churches, and seminaries. But this time I am going to skip all that. Why? Because verifiable, authentic history never changes. Why beat a dead horse into oblivion? Faith-followers will either be objective or not, equitable or not, brave and open-minded or not, or worse scared to death, or not. C’est la vie. 🤷‍♂️

No, today I want to write about things that really matter, pun intended. I want to share and comment on a few science subjects, in particular Earth’s physical status—another disruptive affect of Climate Change that is becoming disturbingly obvious—DNA sequencing discoveries, as well as recent atomic findings such as Quantum Entanglement.

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Have any of you noticed that the days on Earth are getting longer now? Yes, it is factually true. You might ask, How is that possible? Believe it or not, Climate Change or a warming planet is contributing to a slower rotation of Earth. Scientists say that this slower rotation has not been seen for at least 3.6-million years. Many decades ago, perhaps century ago, earlier research established an increasingly warming planet affects sea levels and consequently, Earth’s rotation on its axis. However, this change is in a geological context. Geodesist Professor Benedikt Soja of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, states:

“This rapid increase in day length implies that the rate of modern climate change has been unprecedented at least since the late Pliocene, 3.6 million years ago. The current rapid rise in day length can thus be attributed primarily to human influences.

By the end of the 21^st century, climate change is expected to affect day length even more strongly than the Moon. Even though the changes are only milliseconds, they can cause problems in many areas, for example in precise space navigation, which requires accurate information on Earth’s rotation.”

One of Soja’s colleagues, Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi of the University of Vienna, explains that the effect is similar to a figure skater spinning more slowly after extending their arms. This is simple high school Physics 101. Ice sheets and glaciers across the planet are more dense and therefore heavier; a slower rotating Earth. However, a warm planet and much warmer seas are less dense, thinner, molecularly more active so less weight has less gravity which means a faster rotating Earth. Despite the simple physics though, what has been uncertain or never before seen was whether or not climate had ever lengthened the day this quickly before. To answer that puzzling question, the research team reconstructed changes in Earth’s day-length going back millions of years.

Relying on fossilized remains of benthic foraminifera, i.e. single-celled marine organisms that preserve chemical signals of past ocean conditions. This method of study, like polar ice-cores, has proven to be highly revealing of Earth’s climate history for many of her past millennia. First, by analyzing these fossils, scientists were able to infer ancient historical sea-level fluctuations and calculate how those shifts would have affected Earth’s rotation. Second, the researchers then applied a type of deep learning algorithm to their findings, designed to reflect sea-level change while accounting for the uncertainty that comes with ancient climate data.

“From the chemical composition of the foraminifera fossils, we can infer sea-level fluctuations and then mathematically derive the corresponding changes in day length,” Kiani Shahvandi said. “This model captures the physics of sea-level change, while remaining robust to the large uncertainties inherent in paleoclimate data.”

These findings strongly suggest that Earth’s day-length has varied significantly over the last 2.6-million years, in particular during the Quaternary Period, when large continental ice sheets repeatedly grew and melted. Those ice-driven sea-level changes caused Earth’s rotation to speed up or slow down in different eras of Earth’s history.

However, that said, scientists have found that today’s increase in day length is exceptional. More specifically, they found only one period, around two million years ago, showed a rate of change that came close to present-day levels, and even that episode was slightly slower than what has been observed between 2000 and 2020. This only leads scientists to one most plausible conclusion: the current climate trend reflects a broader pattern of unusually rapid climate and oceanic change. And these scientists predict that by the end of the 21^st-century accelerated climate-driven domino effects on our length of days could surpass the gravitational pull or slowing by our Moon. In other words, the further ripple-effects upon Earth will be catastrophic.

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Through the methodology of DNA Sequencing paleoanthropologists and geneticists have discovered that the last known remaining Neanderthals stayed totally isolated from other human groups, including Homo sapiens as well as Neanderthals nearby, which alters human history.

Researchers used part of a root of one of Thorin’s molars to determine that he was male and to generate a whole-genome sequence, revealing that he was part of an isolated, previously unknown lineage of Neanderthals. (Image credit: Ludovik Slimak)

Ludovic Slimak, the paleoanthropologist who made the remarkable discovery at Grotte Mandrin, a cave in Rhône Valley, France, had the jaw bone of Thorin analyzed by geneticists and then sequenced showed that Thorin’s lineage managed to stay totally isolated from the rest of the Neanderthal population, “in spite of the fact that other human groups lived close by.” Slimak goes on to say:

“The population of Thorin had spent 50 millennia without exchanging a single gene with the classical Neanderthal populations.” The analysis showed that Thorin had “high genetic homozygosity,” which indicates inbreeding in the lineage’s recent past. It also offers no evidence of interbreeding with modern humans of the time.”

With this discovery everything about the Neanderthals and their extinction, and by default human history must now be rewritten. Also, with this discovery it further proves that diversity among human populations is highly advantageous if not simply for better immune systems. And those groups of inclusive only religious populations—not marrying or procreating outside of a specific faith—is known to be highly risky and disadvantageous for retardations, weaker immune systems, and higher survivability rates.

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At the Australian National University Research School of Physics, tangibly observed for the first time a pair of atoms existing in two different places simultaneously, i.e. at the exact same time known as Quantum Entanglement. Quantum physicists at ANU said, “It’s really weird for us to think that this is how the universe works. You can read about it in a textbook, but it’s really weird to think that a particle can be in two places at once” when you see it with your own eyes on atomic instruments, says Dr. Sean Hodgman.

Dr. Hodgman goes on to say, “This result confirms the predictions of over a century ago that matter can be in two locations at once, and it can interfere with itself even in those locations.” This means massive, better knowledge of examining how small-scale Quantum Mechanics interact with gravity and General Relativity at the universal scale. This means physicists are one step closer to the “Theory of Everything.” It isn’t as unknown anymore.

Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always

Three Sides to Every Story

Posted on March 12, 2026 by Professor Taboo

My late father, who was an agnostic humanist and very well educated in mechanical engineering at the University of Texas – Austin, used to sometimes say to me when there was a controversial narrative being told, or seen on television, heard over FM radio, or inside the theater on the silver screen, that you can’t always believe what you see or hear. His quote that always stayed with me was “Son, there are always three sides to every story, sometimes more than three.” And I have found in today’s 21^st-century hyper-overloaded American tech-media-information market, Dad’s news mantra is never more true than right now. It can be argued that it began in 2000 and has easily grown 6-fold since then.

Did you know as of May 2021 that within the U.S. out of one hundred seventy-four (174) news companies/outlets only forty-seven (47) are non-profit organizations according to Harvard University. In other words, only 27% of all U.S. news media are typically more unbiased than private For Profit news corporations that must heed to private owners’ and/or shareholders’ and a board of directors’ special interests for profits, i.e. biased. And of those 47 non-profit news organizations many of them are under the umbrella of a parent company, such as Frontline PBS under the former CPB. What does all this mean for news consumers, rural and urban viewers inside the United States?

It means most all or a very large majority of our U.S. news is driven by individual owners and boards of directors’ personal interests and/or biases. To be more candid, most all of our news we Americans consume is slanted to some degree, if not to a large degree, and the integrity of our “journalism” is often tainted, polluted, or worse, distorted. How do we avoid the modern traps of (extreme?) biasness? How can we find a more neutral source of news and information?

There are two answers: 1) consume a more varied diverse spread of news agencies, media, and outlets, then compare and contrast all of it to unravel the more objective version of a story. Yes, this is an immensely time-consuming method and every day life gets in the way of such deciphering. But the more diverse the input/output, the better. Or 2) pare down your consumption of news to only the non-profit outlets and digital media platforms. Why is number two (2) a more attractive option? Less time spent is one reason. However, below are sixty (60) reasons why to favor non-profit news outlets because of the “donations” to a political candidate or campaign by GOP-dollars versus Democratic-dollars:

Media Owners/Execs Who Openly Donate

There is where all the biasness saturates our privately owned or publicly traded American news media. And this is why “Three Sides to Every Story” is so critical for U.S. consumers to remember to find fair, more factual, more integrity from their news sources. This is why I often watch Al Jazeera or utilize their website. And right now, with our unprovoked U.S. attack and war on Iran by our fake pretend Commander-in-Chief and his Secretary of War, and the massive ripple-effects it is causing for Americans back home at the gas pumps, grocery stores, utilities, as well as nations and their citizens around the world… we simply cannot rely on this administration’s press releases and conferences (or Truth social X) for any direction or understanding. Right now we cannot obtain or rely on the full truth of:

Why this war was started by him,
Was Iran really an imminent threat to the U.S. homeland,
What is the true status of the war right now, or
How and when will the war conclude.

*Department of War director Pete Hegseth (left) and U.S. President (right), Feb. 2026 explaining war.*

Our POTUS never consulted, brought forth or debated any of these crucial points with Congress (or for Americans) the merit of this Iranian War as our U.S. Constitution dictates he do, and he took a solemn vow again for the second time January 20, 2025, to uphold and abide by our Constitution! Our POTUS breaks this solemn vow, the law all the time while in the White House! How many times will this bogus, idiot Commander-in-Chief get away with so much un-Constitutional, illegal behavior?

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Nevertheless, if your own good conscience wants to have more of the facts and truth about today’s current U.S. administration and what is really happening domestically or around the world, then you have no choice but to take the above two news-consumption methods. If you only watch, browse, or listen to one source of news and (dis-)information, you are NOT getting all or more of the facts. Period. Because privately owned news media or publicly traded news media cannot be wholly trusted to share fairly all the facts and how events and their causes play out. Profits are their bottom-line, every single day.

As my father used to often say, “There is always three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the Sunday morning paper.” And that might not be all points-of-view on the controversy and much of one or two slanted stories might be highly falsified propaganda. Think about it.

One is entitled to their own personal opinion, but no one is exclusively entitled to the facts. The facts are always independent of the narrator(s), including our POTUS. Always.

Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always – Know Propaganda

King Adolfhit Mine-tRump

Posted on March 9, 2026 by Professor Taboo

After failing once again to “obliterate” the Iranian nuclear nuisance, King Adolfhit Mine-tRump wants more attacks and more self-aggrandizing glory and big history! For all of your viewing satire pleasure, I present tRump’s War Room by clicking the link below…

https://www.captiongenerator.com/v/2315594/king-adolfhit-mine-trump-attacks-again

*“Downfall,” the 2005 war-drama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel*

Notice that our Supreme Leader, Highness, Führer, has banned YouTube from showing these captioned clips from “Downfall,” the 2005 war-drama film. But is that any surprise given our POTUS’ impulsive inclination for no freedom of the press?

*My own rendition of the POTUS war room these last few days*

Bells for Robert Jordan

Posted on March 7, 2026 by Professor Taboo

**“Heresy is the foe of countenance.”**

During these days since January 20, 2025, four hundred and twelve days (412) to be exact, and counting, America and Americans have been living in a sort of Francisco Franco-esque regime of unprecedented turmoil, domestic and foreign aggression by tariffs, law-enforcement abuses, and foreign military actions, the most radical dismantling of federal government, arbitrarily lacerating the federal workforce, unilaterally demolishing agencies, not to mention the East Wing of the White House, and eradicating critical social, health, medical, and environmental federal programs and services. To say these 412-days have been nothing short of chaos would be a gross understatement.

*“Evacuation” by Helios Gómez, Spain 1939*

It must be pointed out that these last 412-days for Americans were caused by a unilateral antagonist and his following unorthodox agitators. And I realize I am being quite genteel with those terms, bordering on watered down to a fragrant gooey blob. Forgive me. There is some value with decorum and etiquette, yes? I confess, however, that I have vast contention with just how far We Americans and our government officials of all three branches have remained complicit while the nation slips further and further into the dark abyss lead by one single man and his anarchists. Have we forgotten what E Pluribus Unum means and how it applies? Have we turned our back on the virtues of helping and serving each other… not as substrates of one ideology, one brand, or one faction, but just as Americans without exclusion?

“No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were.

Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.”

— John Donne

The Greatest Generation, coined by Tom Brokaw, showed all of us old enough to learn them and those of us today, young and old alike, to revere and model how it is done now, tomorrow, and beyond. It demands abandoning all preclusions of self-interest, while honoring worthy causes bigger than self, the immense obligatory sacrifices, the sanctity and dedication for the duty of E Pluribus Unum, and perhaps most of all, profound humility.

Have we seen any of these qualities, behaviors, or virtues exhibited these last 412-days in any abundance or degree? Pffft, unequivocally… no. In many ways we’ve seen the opposite done:

Unprecedented efforts to consolidate authoritarian power to one man, one branch, one office — Our POTUS signed more than 140 executive orders in the first 100 days, more than any other president in the same period. Of those, more than 25 were directed at remaking the federal government.
The removal of government watchdogs — Our POTUS fired 17 presidentially-appointed inspectors general, leaving more than 75% of such positions vacant. Historically, inspectors general serve across administrations regardless of when or by which president they were appointed. They play a crucial, independent role to investigate, prevent and eliminate fraud. In 2024, inspectors general saved the government over $70 billion. The removal of these key positions undercut important guardrails that were specifically created to prevent government waste and abuse.
The firing of Senate-confirmed appointees at independent agencies — Appointees to these independent agencies often serve multiple administrations and are generally selected based on their experience and knowledge rather than partisan concerns. Our POTUS’ administrative control of these agencies will undermine their ability to make truly independent recommendations, and instead serve as political tools for the White House to accumulate power and sway decision-making.
Unprecedented Cuts led by the Department of Government Efficiency — Many of the first management priorities of the new administration were ideas originally proposed by Project 2025, a policy document constructed by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank published in April 2023 for all Americans to read about the coming storm. These included significant reductions to segments of the federal workforce and the expansion of presidential powers.
Sweeping cuts to federal personnel — Our POTUS’ administration reduced the federal workforce by tens of thousands of employees—often in sudden and haphazard ways. The administration is still slashing today. The most critical cuts to American’s safety was 28k personnel from the Army, 24k from DHS, 23k from the Navy, 23k from the Air Force, 22k from Defense, 19k from HHS, and shockingly 50k from Veterans Affairs.
The federal government is less transparent and accountable — Can anyone say, “Epstein Files”? That’s just one prolific example. Need I say more?
Federal Appointees No Longer Need Merited Experience, Credentials, or be Highly Qualified — I won’t list all the many people our POTUS has recklessly hired and/or fired, but I will say one name that sums up the sheer chaos in Washington D.C., “Kristi Noem.”

For more extensive breakdowns, examination and factual data go to the Partnership for Public Service.

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There is a lot to be learned and taken to heart by Ernest Hemingway’s acclaimed novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Much of his story and Robert Jordan’s experiences are already playing out again, not in published literature, but in reality at home and abroad.

“What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get.”

— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1939–1940

Can the obese Tasmanian Shrew in Mar-a-Lago ever be satisfied? Will his prey remain paralyzed, docile, and blind?

We were warned in the fall of 2016 to January 2021 this treachery could return. We were gifted and warned in April 2023 of the exact blueprint of how this expanded treachery would happen. We were handed the opportunity to stop it in Oct/Nov 2024. Woefully America was naive, complicit, negligent, and utterly lazy in all those repeated alarm bells, or to be more apropos… the repeated Hemingway funeral tolling.

When will we listen and learn? Will we ever learn… before it is too late?

Reasons America Has Lost Its Way

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Professor Taboo

For most of my adult life I have had great respect and adoration for America’s elite historians. Some of the first that come to mind are Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Meacham, Annette Gordon-Reed, Douglas Bradburn, David McCullough, and several others. I follow most all of them and have read many of their published books. Sometimes another historian enters the limelight of American political history and/or journalism. One such historical journalist was recently a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His name? John Dickerson, a frequent guest on Colbert’s shows.

*The meaning of Separation of Powers as our Core Founding Fathers intended in the late 18th-century*

But sadly, this original design by our Founding Fathers (above image) no longer exists today. Try hard to find its current virtues, the applications, the execution and equal humble moderation. You won’t find it under this administration. They could care less about it.

Dickerson summed up superbly on the Colbert late show aired February 25, 2026, with exactly why the cogs and wheels of our federal government today are falling off, broken, and disintegrating… or “obliterated” to use an overkill abused White House word of late. And the prime example, the prime felon and demolisher—no pun intended on the East Wing of the White House—was made bare and obvious with the supposed State of the Union Lies and Address delivered February 24, 2026, to the American public. I highly recommend watching John Dickerson’s interview, answers, and explanations of just how monumentally President tRump and his MAGA cult followers are comprehensively missing the Venezuelan and American boat, so to speak: