How Do They Measure The Age Of Black Holes?

I can understand how they can do it for stars. Also, if time stops in the center of the black hole....

They found a galaxy without dark matter. Why do some less dense galaxies have no dark matter, but dense ones do?

Forbes: 5 Ways To Make A Galaxy With No Dark Matter

Is Kim Jong-un Serious This Time?

You betcha!

North Korea didn't want talks to denuclearize during the Lee Myung-bak and Park Kun-hye administrations. They were hostile and didn't want peace with North Korea. If Kim Jong-un held peace talks with these administrations, then the credit would go to conservative administration of Lee Myung-bak or Park Kun-hye. The same Korean conservative party that always calls the opposition leftists, communist sympathizers and other bigotry. If you were Kim Jong-un, would you want that?

However, the administrations of Kim Dae-jung and Noh Moo-hyun wanted talks and peace with North Korea. They understood that North Korea probably would not keep its promises, but tried anyways.

The present administration of Moon Jae-in can be seen as a continuation of the administrations of Kim Dae-jung and Noh Moo-hyun.

North Korea has said in the past they would give up nuclear weapons, if the US guaranteed that they would not overthrow or oppose the present North Korean regime. Now, they said it's too late and they will not give up nuclear weapons. I think they will not give up what they have, but they should agree not to go further. Give up reprocessing, developing further technology needed to become fully nuclear.

All sides are serious, but can they work out an agreement?

Why God Is Needed?

Without God, humans would be stuck in a self-centered consciousness. Those who know, believe, or live in a God-centered world, understand what a non self-centered consciousness is.

Bill to Shorten Korea's Work Week From 68 to 52 Hours Introduced

A bill to shorten the work week from 68 to 52 hours was introduced today in spite of fierce opposition from many companies with two notable exceptions, Shilla Hotels reduced the work week for salaried employees to 35 hours, and LG Electronics to 40 hours.

A bill to raise the minimum wage to a little over $7 per hour was passed earlier this year despite threats that this would force companies to reduce employment.

Still have a long way to go.

UPI: South Korea reduces work to 52 hours a week

Yonhap News: Parliamentary committee passes bill on reduced working hours

Marijuana Cures Autism?

Read about in the Times Magazine article -

IS MARIJUANA THE WORLD’S MOST EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR AUTISM?

Denying people a cure for their ills sounds criminal and immoral to me.

Two Aides To Ex-President Myung-bak Lee Arrested For Bribery And Misappropriation Of Funds

It seems they are implicating former Korean President Lee in the scandal surrounding the misuse of secret funds from the intelligence agency amounting to approximately $400,000.

Yonhap News: Arrest warrants sought for 2 former aides of ex-President Lee over bribery

The arrest warrants were issued early this morning. 

Let's see, Presidents Lee Sung-man, Park Chung-hee, Chun Do-hwan, Noh Tae-woo, and Park Keun-hye all committed crimes. Two received life sentences (Chun Do-hwan and Noh Tae-woo), but were given Presidential pardons. Park Keun-hye will probably be sentenced to many years in jail. Now, it looks like Myung-bak Lee may be indicted. Only three former Korean Presidents were "clean"?

With these kinds of people leading Korea, it's a miracle that Korea has developed so much economically, and a tragedy that Korea has such an "unjust" society at the moment. Seems like a country half run by crooks.  

Will Ex-President Myung-bak Lee Go To Jail?

Probably?

It looks like he abused power during his presidency for personal gain, blacklisted liberal figures, used government agency to spread pro-conservative propaganda, spied on liberal figures, received funds illegally from the intelligence agency, obstruction of justice, and more. Even though almost a decade has passed, there should still be enough information out there to convict him.

Korea Today

In Korea, the birth rate is really low and dropping. People want a bright future for their child. If they feel their children would not be able to get a job and have a good life, they probably would put off having children. Then there are those who choose not to have children for other reasons.

Korean TV broadcasting companies, MBC and YTN, recently changed CEOs. Another broadcasting company, KBS, just fired their CEO yesterday and should appoint a new one soon. Suddenly, I am able to watch some TV without getting ticked off now.

1987, a movie about the 1987 protests for democracy ignited by the deaths of two students was released last week. One died while being waterboarded by the authorities. They claimed he just gasped and died. Another was killed by an exploding tear gas canister aimed at his head.

The prosecutors found evidence that ex-President Keun-hye Park asked for money from the intelligence agency (over $3 million) and used it to pay for personal expenses and staff. On TV, they keep showing footage of her swearing on TV that she never thought of her personal interests, but acted only for the good of the country.  

TV from the 60s and 70s 

Legalize Pot and Pot Use Among Young People Drops?

Happened in the Netherlands, Portugal and Colorado, I think.

CBS News: Measuring Colorado's "great experiment" with marijuana

So, governments that do not legalize pot are contributing to increased drug use by young people?
Too bad you can't sue governments.

Grew Up Listening to Jackie Wilson and Others

Even remember watching Red Skeleton ... Tap dancing ...

Norway Decriminalizes All Illegal Drugs

Seems to be the logical, economical, and humane approach to drug addiction. Makes much more sense than locking people up and depriving them of means to earn a living. Hard to get a job, even without a conviction record.

High Times: Norway’s Parliament Votes To Decriminalize All Illegal Drugs

No Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

That would make more sense. 

PhysOrg: Doing without dark energy: Alternative explanation for cosmic acceleration

Munwha Broadcasting Company - Secrets Revealed

MBC TV is showing a documentary on how the Korean intelligence agency took over MBC by firing a lot of people that they said were "leftists" and promoting people that obeyed orders.. Then they used MBC for propaganda.

The MBC president was fired and a new president was appointed last week. He was one of the producers who were fired 5 years ago. More GOOD changes to come!


Rapid TV News: Striking producer elevated to Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation president

Consciousness Creates Reality?

Doubt it, but it does surely affect reality.

Maybe taking information from the electrons in the double slit experiment causes it to lose just enough energy to cause it to become a particle.



And did you know that anything traveling at the speed of light experiences no time, and is mostly likely two dimensional (according to today's knowledge of dimensions)? Speed makes things flatter until at the speed of light, flatness approaches infinity.

Are The Quantum Effects Shown In The Double Slit Experiment Evidence Of An Unseen Dimension?

Detective Finds Mother's Murderer After 13 Years

Last month, a woman was mugged by a man. Police looked at CCTV footage and found the cigarette the man had smoked. They ran the DNA on the butt, and found it matched the DNA of a murderer of a woman 13 years ago. They arrested the man and he is under arrest.One of the detectives on the case was told to go on vacation just before the arrest. Top brass wanted to eliminate any chances of an unfortunate incident during the arrest. The detective was the son of the murdered woman. He was ibn high school when he lost his mother and then became a policeman.

Serendipity.

There are only articles in Korean, none in English.

Hankook Ilbo: 13년 전 어머니 살해범, 형사 된 아들이 잡았다

Raising Korean Corporate Tax From 22% To 25%, Reaction?

Corporate tax will be 25% for those earning more than $300 million a year. It was much higher, then they reduced it to 22% to stimulate growth and jobs almost a decade ago. Guess what happened? You betcha. Little growth, no jobs. Who knows, lowering taxes may work sometimes, but in most cases, it did little good.

String Theory and 11 Dimensions

In String Theory, there are 11 dimensions. What could the 11 dimensions be?

Space, Time, Energy, Mass, Gravity, Information, Intelligence, Life, Electromagnetism, Gluons?

Big Bang Make Any Sense?

They say nothing travels faster than light, then they say except for the big bang (inflation theory).
Everything in the universe crammed into a Planck length? They said that nothing escapes from black holes, excluding radiation.

If there is nothing at the edges of the universe, then wouldn't the universe expand naturally? Where did all the matter come from, or where is it emerging from?

Maybe there is no such thing as "nothing"? Maybe there is always something in space. Even if it was nothing, that would be something in the context of a filled space.

Bit and zeros add up to software. Maybe bits and zeros in space add up to energy, which equals matter, which equals intelligence or knowledge?

A theory with no beginning and no end would be good.







Is consciousness a type of energy or force?

And more things to think about...







Exciting times.

No Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

Science Daily: Dark matter and dark energy: Do they really exist?

Makes sense.

If time was forever and intelligence exists, most likely true, then intelligence should have evolved to where it could exist forever, even through supernovas and the like. Maybe we are a minuscule part of that intelligence. Then again, maybe intelligence is like time. an emergent phenomenon.

Is Land Ownership Democratic?

Maybe the native American Indians had it right?

Pretty sure what Jesus would have done.

Experiments Prove Consciousness Affects Matter

From a distance, no less!

Seems like we are entering a new era of physics and consciousness.

Gravity Is An Emergent Phenomenon

Heard that today in a video of a lecture by Erik Verlinde, a Dutch theoretical physicist on Scientific American

Everything comes from information.