How many deplorables?

 * Republicans waxed sanctimonious over Hillary Clinton’s proposition that half of Trump’s supporters were deplorables – meaning racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, etc.  Half may be an underestimate, since these characteristics express low-brain tribal drives inherited from our ape ancestors.  We all share these primitive drives; but Democrats bridle them, for the sake of justice, more than do Republicans.

 * Republicans absorbed the Dixiecrats when LBJ signed the voting-rights act.  When we Democrats were celebrating a brilliant black president with his exemplary family in the White House, gun sales to non-democrats skyrocketed.

 * Clinton failed to list the anti-scientific climate-denying Rush-Limbaugh sycophants, who overflow the basket of deplorables.  How can Floridians vote anti-science Republican while ocean warming and acidification destroy their sea life and rising sea level swamps Miami and salinates Florida’s ground water?

 * There is hardly room in the basket for the insatiably greedy who hire lobbyists to bribe Congress for financial advantages benefiting the already rich.

Quantum dynamics

* I might be happier, if I could understand the interactions among elemental particles and between such particles and space associated with emission and absorption of photons.  I wonder:
* Why don’t an atom’s electrons fall into its nucleus?  What geometric or mechanical change of an atom’s electron is associated with emission or absorption of a photon?  Is it a change in orbital radius or could it be a change in orbital vibration?
* Reading between the lines, I suspect that every photon has the same composition (a common number of wave cycles, 1 or n, or 1 pulse) and that the wave or pulse of every photon has the same amplitude.  Accordingly, a photon of twice the energy has twice the frequency and half the length -- or something like that.
 * Photons are not quantized, except by virtue of their emission and absorption dynamics, unless we can believe inflationary and relativistic red shifts to be quantized.
* It should be fun to imagine the composition and dynamics of antenna-emitted radio waves, these being generated from innumerable jerky electrons being accelerated phasically in opposite directions.  The photon conglomerate presumably disperses during inverse-square spreading.  Would such photons have odd shapes?  Since they induce corresponding oscillations in receiving antennae, they must retain information about the direction of electrons that produced them.  A corollary is that photons are pulses, not waves. A wave shouldn't retain such directional information.
 * The microwave background consists of very-low-frequency photons.  I recon that the microwaves of a radar or oven are not photons but are conglomerates of higher-frequency photons, perhaps longer IR photons, which cooperate in driving electrons in a target antenna or food alternately in opposite directions at microwave frequency.  The retention of directional information is easier explained if photons are pulses, not waves.
* The finding that electrons (having electric and magnetic fields) interfere in the double-slit experiment may not prove that particles per se have wave character.  However, a similar result with neutrons seems convincing, though mysterious.  Could it be that the fields of opposite charges in a neutron do not cancel but extend side by side throughout space?
 * How can I reconcile my deterministic convictions with probabilistic particle behavior?
 * What data support detailed electron orbital models?

Reply to David Regen  at  xms@bellsouth.net
I started a conversation thread at Physics Forum

Key-word links
Planck Blackbody Quantized Light Wave/Particle Duality

deBroglie Bohr Atom Structure EnergyOrbits DoubleSlitInterferance MatterDuality

History of quantum theory, John Bell Entanglement Test Einstein vs Bohr

Entanglement John Bell –> Experimental Test Quantum Computer

Microwave background from Big Bang Plasma Orange to Red to Microwave shift

Edge of Universe (Observable) Particle Horizon Inflating Space Red Shift to Oblivion 4-D Curved Univ

Electron Wavelength Orbit = Standing Wave

Mass of Energy m = E / c^2   Combined parts have less mass than sum of singles ; Potential Energy can be neg

Space-Time Causality in 4D Space ;   s.i. = (dx)^2 - (c dt)^2 future already exists

Physics Photon dimensions

PhysicsForums Size of photon particle 

ResearchGate What is the cross section size of a photon?

RP Photonics Encyclopedia Length of a Photon

ScienceForums Does a photon have physical volume or geometrical size?

Photon Energy vs Frequency

Double-slit diffraction of neutrons

Tennessean's worst letter yet

Re: Race relations take a tumble by Hugh Fulford, July 26.
* Considering the growing prevalence of photographing phones, social media and exploitive partisan leaders, race relations might have been much worse by now were it not for Obama’s calm systematic leadership.  In any case, the referenced letter makes me despair of an effective national conversation toward racial reconciliation.  The necessary humility doesn’t come naturally and is utterly lacking among Mr Fulford’s ilk.
* We are lucky that Barack Obama came along when he did.

Obamacare criticized

 Re: Obamacare fails to solve health-care problems, by Sabi Kumar, Nashville Tennessean, May 29.

* Sabi Kumar condemns Obamacare for failing to provide Americans with insurance comparable to that of senators.  In fact, by removing the pre-existing-condition barrier and life-time-payout limit, ACA has delivered senator-like insurance to private-sector Americans of senator-like rank and income.  Moreover, ACA gave millions of middle-class Americans access to affordable health insurance for the first time.  It would have covered millions more had it not been sabotaged by Republican state governments.

* He implies that a better health-care law could have passed when democrats were the majority in Congress.  In fact passage required compromises with conservative politicians of both parties and with influential lobbyists for insurance-industry preservation.

* Kumar notes that many individuals and employers chose to pay the penalties for noncompliance rather than purchase health insurance.  This resulted in fewer healthy subscribers, hence losses by insurers.  Would he espouse higher penalties?

* If Kumar is sincere, he would embrace the ACA modified so as to remedy deficiencies he identifies?  That can happen only when Democrats have the presidency and the Congress.

Gathering of curious

More Discussion Topics

Proposals
1 Code-labelled ammunition
2 Dobro capo, Scalene triangular prism shaped
3 Junction-box improvement
4 Safe child transporter, rear key turn to prevent alarm
5 Stinky paint balls to scatter rioters
6 Stink bombs to influence rouge foreign leaders
7 Sticky LoJack
8 Instant engine jettison, parachute deployment, air bag, helicopter
9 Instant engine jettison, powerless or floating airliner, floatation deployment
10 Headlights that turn with steering
11 Dentist 37deg water squirter
12 Dentist lamp that stays on patient’s mouth
13 Dentist lamp positioned entirely by foot/knee controls
14 Dentist chair positioned entirely by foot/knee controls
15 Dentist power tools automatically sterilized between patients (O3, UV, steam)
16 Digital storage of denture mold
17 Nuclear steam turbine for 24/365 surveillance drone
18 Device for rounding copper pipe end
19 Device for smoothly bending/straightening copper pipe
20 National ObitAlert (newspaper service)
21 Charged and permeable local anesthetic for electrophoretic infiltration
22 Submarine bulkheads with lift bars for submersible guided hooks
23 Submarine with deployable floatation bags
24 Laser grid
25 DNA of nummular eczema vs nearby skin
26 Inertial cast-iron-drain clean-out-cap opener
27 Bidirectional clean-out access
28 Improved drain snake
29 Tyrant Retirment Paradise
30 Automatic home-mortgage principal adjustment, shared risk
31 Semi-truck jack-knife resister
32  Engineers adjusting fiscal policy to approach politically decided targets

Questions
1 Magnetic field structure (?granular?)
2 Radio-wave structure (?granular?)
3 Photon shape/dimensions
4 Photon destiny
5 Gravity ?=? Space repulsion ?=? Dark energy
6 Field of electron, still vs moving (special relativitiy)
7 Spherical-bell-like oscillations of electrons in orbit / energy states
8 Ideal society?  Shared provision, Rights respected
9 Sovereignty theory, need for leadership, spokespersons
10 Primitive drives, survival and civilization
11 Policies for extending a society, justice for future?
12 Inevitability and melioration of events/experience
13 Roles of evolution and desire in deterministic universe
14 Difference between neutron about to decay and those not about to decay
15 Electron gun in vacuum or on graphine
16 Mechanisms of heterogeneity and organization of universe
17 How cesium oscillations counted
18 What motions slow clocks, orbital about still observer, orbital about rotating observer?
19 Where are all the big-bang photons that didn't become matter?  What are they doing?

Wondering about nature

What would it be like to gather monthly with people curious and informed about nature, just to share curiosity and information with like-minded people?  Interesting topics are abundant.

What force started galaxies spinning coordinately, considering Newton’s laws of motion?

Do electron orbitals form ringing spherical bells more stable when symmetrical (satisfied)?

What does change of energy state look like with emission or absorption of photon?

Could gravity be a repulsive force from space shaded by matter?

Structure of superconductivity?

Structure of superfluidity?

In a gas (Hydrogen, Helium, etc), what is heat, temperature?

What are photon's dimensions?  How target matter?

Are radio waves emitted and captured in electron-jump packets?

What features of photons are same for all?

Interaction of transverse electron streams, in space, in wire?

Are stable magnetic fields particulate, granular?

Are stable electric fields particulate, granular?

Describe field of moving charge.

Appearance of still electric field seen by moving observer.  Moving grid.

Most distant objects viewed in curved space.  In opposite directions.

Meaning, value, ethics in deterministic universe, in a decaying universe.

Who owes national debt?  Need it be payed?  Where is it?

Profit, private wealth and debt distribution.

Consequences of free trade.

Imagine ethical tribalism.

Consequences of unfettered migration.

Ethics of rational migration.

Law: Peace despite primitive human drives.

What would racial justice look like?

Roles of, value of and need for recreation, entertainment, distraction.

Can we handle the truth?

Consider dynamic relations between adjustable independent variables (taxes, regulations, laws) and desired dependent variables (prosperity distribution, satisfaction distribution).

Short history of Republican conservatism

* Republicans are harvesting a half century of successfully cultivating conservative extremism.  It began with a gift of white supremacists from the Democratic party when Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.  This gave rise to the southern strategy implemented by Republicans beginning with Nixon.
* It continued with Reagan’s claiming that federal programs to help the disadvantaged in fact harmed them, that unions and labor laws harmed laborers, that environmental regulations were silly, that international family-planning providers shouldn't be allowed to discuss abortion, that job loss from out-sourcing was offset by lower consumer prices, that all weapons systems deserve development, that tax-rate cuts would increase tax revenues.  Despite citizens’ love of tax cuts, Reagan wouldn’t have won were it not for Iranian revolutionaries holding Americans hostage during the election year.
* Under propaganda from the congress and industry, Clinton abandoned affordable health-care ambitions and added conservative initiatives of his own, like free trade, welfare reform and bank deregulation.  The country prospered owing to our head start in the digital revolution, the resulting productivity rise and associated financial speculation.
* With the help of Gore-caricaturing comedians and a conservative Supreme Court, Bush II followed Clinton, promising further tax cuts which he implemented.  When the national conversation turned to stagnation in Afghanistan, to Karl Rove’s urging 9/11 be put to maximal political advantage, and to insider trading at Harken Energy, Bush squelched that conversation by assembling troops in preparation for possible invasion of Iraq, leading to America’s biggest crime since slavery.  Hillary Clinton’s email flaws and Benghazi failures pale beside Bush’s cynical and disastrous use of military discretion.
* Inevitably bank deregulation, fair-housing programs, perverse bond ratings and an economic slowdown gave rise to financial collapse near the end of Bush’s tenure.  This was addressed first by bank bailouts and later by mortgage relief, because rational tools for addressing the predictable collapse could not be produced prophylactically by a government of checks and balances.  Rational tools (shovel-ready federal projects planned and waiting, reversible automatic mortgage adjustments) are still lacking.  The result has been vast profits for real-estate and stock-market speculators at the expense of the working class.
* Election of a black president woke up and consolidated Republican conservatives as Second-Amendment/Tea-Party fanatics.
* For the past three decades, the above political dynamics were accompanied by the rise of hateful and dishonest broadcasters, Rush Limbaugh and his imitators, occupying the anti-intellectual space created by Reagan. Also during that time, Republicans have diligently supported their candidates for local and state positions down to school boards; and, at every opportunity, they have systematically redrawn districts to maximize Republican success.  We have sorted ourselves into politically homogeneous districts, some where progressives, intellectuals, environmentalists, futurists, humorists, even moderate conservatives must self censor.
* The result is Republican presidential aspirants unfit for national leadership.