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  • Who Let Schrodinger’s Cat Out Of The Bag?

    Who Let Schrodinger’s Cat Out Of The Bag?

    Scientists clung to the principle the atom was still indivisible and aptly named long after the theory fell apart in the nuclear fission factories falling apart on our coastlines today.

    Keep Your Distance From Spooky Cats

    The good folks at CERN have been up to their necks in the atom smashing business so long they are getting ready to prove the photon is ready to be split open along with my brain if I spend one more sleepless night in the Alps-de-Provence trying to grasp at the straw men who preceded me.

    The argument against manifestation is strong coming from the mouths of people who keep their feet firmly planted on the ground.

    I am still amazed early Quantum physics was pulled straignt from the imaginations of scientests who had their heads in the clouds!

    Enstein and other great thinkers used thought experiments to ponder theories that humans accepted as a general rule for years.

    Much of the grunt work was done with pen and paper in the classroom with scientests predicting what would be seen in telescopes yet to be built;

    Light Speeding Tickets

    We have been separating photons and shooting them out one at a time as particles and the photons hold true to their word as a matter of fact, they will behave as ordinary matter.

    The mind bending fact of the matter is scientists are turning old hats on their heads and bending the waves of light instead.

    I think this time Science will break that light wave in half and we will be waving at ourselves from another dimension.

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    Faster Than The Speed Of Sleight Of Hand

    The tricky part was to be tricky as well as fast and ask a light wave to slow down and look at itself in the mirror. Flattery will get you everywhere. As the light wave admires itself the scientists pull the mirror away and reveal the reflection of the wave has been split in two!

    Does this mean the end of the indivisible photon?

    If they split the wave did they indeed split the photon particle?

    They are both one and the same but never at the same time.

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    Where To Next?

    Are we going to break the rules and precisely measure position and speed of light at the same time?

    How fast will Heisenberg be spinning in his grave?

    Is the instantaneous transfer of information between two entangled particles, or Einstein’s, “Spooky action at a distance”, really just a form of communication too small for us to see that also moves faster than the speed of light?

  • Existential Exercises With Metaphysical Phones

    Existential Exercises With Metaphysical Phones

    Moore’s law is not Moore’s law and it is not, in fact a law. But it held true for decades until Google harnessed the qubit and now we are hitting light speed computations with simple cellular devices you can purchase with pocket change.

    What Is Moore’s Law

    Moore’s Law can be paraphrased as computing technology will be twice as fast and twice as small every several years.

    The last I heard about it on the popular news channels I was noticing some incredible discrepancy within my devices.

    The Data Log Rolls Over

    Before I crawled out from under the rock the Universe dropped on me , I thought I was living the high life in Seabrook, NH.

    Each month I would pay the bills with my online accounts and witness the miracle of light speed computing I had no idea existed at the time.

    I tapped out the amount on my Windoze desktop and hit enter to send the payment.

    Before I lifted my finger my phone would ding as I received an email thanking me for the payment I just made!

    Faster Than Radio Waves?

    What happens when I send the bill?

    My form results are sent to the credit card company in South Dakota.. They check the balance on my debit card connected to my bank in NH.

    Triggering either a thank you for your payment email or a payment unsuccessful warning if I don’t have the money.

    Faster than I can think, how did they do that so fast?

    Continued: Who let Schrodinger’s Cat Out Of The Bag?

  • People Like Us Write Books About People Like Us

    People Like Us Write Books About People Like Us

    Large Learning Modules have turned writing into a lost art. Do you have what it takes to dotCompete in this preternatural, half-baked, dystopian futuristic Sci-Fi landscape that has become present day reality? We got machines that never sleep who are jealous of our dreams and pretend to empathize when they cannot even sythethesize sympathy for the humans going hungry on these mean streets!

    Don’t Go Off Half Cocked

    I wrote a ton of short poems and stories but struggled to finish a chapter.

    I remember meeting many people beginning their memoirs around 30 years of age. Now I laugh because I still meet people perfecting their 30 year old manuscript of their memoirs.

    What is the book about? A lifetime of being rejected by editors?

    Perfectly Good Enemies Of The Good

    Now that I am pushing 60 years of age, I laugh at my Self . Thinking I had the life in the Brook of NH.

    Being excited about getting replies to my blog post. The well crafted , clever story about meeting my Self in an alternate reality future where I did not give up on my dreams.

    Siren Calls

    That was a wake up call to my Self from my Self to take the book of my life off shelf and get back up and outside.

    Today I complain about living too much life in Europe and realize it ain’t nothing but a thang, man . Life ain’t nothing but a thang…

    Look To Your Heroes For Inspiration

    The writers I most enjoyed did not become well established until later in life. Hemingway, Frost, Bukowski, Whitman, Burroughs. You cannot beat their styles

    I learned a lot about my Self and my writing style after starting a blog during Covid Isolation. This kept me alive and almost sane. The problem at the end is I believe I was encouraged to misbehave as I received more attention and I pulled the plug.

    Check out the Wayback Machine for a glimpse of my American Nightmare Higher Times Blog dot com

    They say you cannot be a great writer until you have lived a thousand lives and died nine hundred and ninety nine times!

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    Have fun out there and thank you for being you!

  • White Line Fever

    White Line Fever

    Takes Juan to Know Juan

    We understand it important to eat a healthy diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables.

    Sometimes when William is on the road and life does not go according to plan (does it ever?)it can be difficult to procure the basics of survival.

    Water, shelter and food are often luxury items in this European climate that has because arid and dry and desert-like.

    Take Care of Your Self

    After a 72 hour stretch of pushing his body to the limit in 30 Celsius temperature bicycling and then walking from Imperia, Italy to Menton France. William decided the bus with the people who have more common sense

    After a 3 day weekend in Menton to celebrate the birthday of what many people call “the greatest nation” on the 4th of July , William is on what seems like a mandatory journey through Italy.

    Don’t Let The Universe Decide!

    If you don’t make up your mind the universe will sometimes decide what is best for you and you may not like it!

    After missing the route to Sospel France, William became lazy minded and assumed he could take an alternate route.

    The route took him out onto the highway designated for automobiles and the Italian National Police decided that was a bad idea!

    The Long Arm Of The Law

    William found himself alone in Italian jail and then a passport misprint found him three days over the Schengen limit.

    Italian immigration kindly offered William the opportunity to be the first American he knows to be deported to America! Voluntarily

    Oh god! What a wonderful world!

    William extends a great thank you to the Italian government for giving him a thirty day free pass without a paddle!

    The agreement is William has thirty days to leave Italy as a voluntary candidate but if he leaves on his own he forfeits the assistance provided by the Italian immigration department.

    Oils Well That Ends Well

    If you think this is confusing, try explaining it to the police in a language you do not speak!

    Whew! Once again William has traveled long enough until it becomes necessary to learn yet another language!

    Stay tuned to this space and please drop us a line if you know anything at all about the Schengen visa limit laws..

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    Thank you for being you

  • Things That Go Bump In The Night

    Things That Go Bump In The Night

    Journal entry :July 14, 2026.

    last night I finally fell asleep behind the walls of my “crystal castle in the skies above Finale Ligure”

    Finally had a chance to do some work after being denied food for the weekend and being bounced between cities of Savona and Finale Ligure and again told to go to Savona where I was criminally threatened.

    After Midnight

    On the edge of sleeping I thought I heard the iron doors swing open in the chamber below.

    I dismissed it as the wind which flowed all night.

    I wake up! A bright light in my eyes!

    Crap! I think it’s the cops but it’s impossible. I climbed uphill for 30 minutes before entering the abandoned castle and no roads nearby.

    Sheep In Sheep’s Clothing

    I try to shield my eyes from the flashlight and prepare my statement about why I am in Italy and wish to return home to America.

    The voice from behind the flashlight is asking me why I sleep here. Speaking Italian,.

    The legs below the flashlight are too young and another pair too the left are similar.

    Out Of The Frying Pan

    Now I think trouble because it’s no police!

    Who is it and they don’t sound friendly. Demanding answer to question about me sleeping.

    I don’t speak , Italian. Spanish?

    They try to speak Spanish with me and finally lower the light because they are surprised I speak English.

    Into The Fire

    I realize it’s a couple kids out marauding and I offered to leave the castle for them.

    They say no, is okay.

    They leave. I stand up and step to the edge of the parapet to watch them drifting down the stairs.

    I can hear them speaking. One of them is the older brother trying to reassure the younger.

    The younger brother doesn’t seem convinced but they climb the castle wall to exit the same area I entered.

    Afterward

    Again I do not sleep. I am not worried about the kids coming back but who else is out there.

  • Genetically Modified Oratory

    Genetically Modified Oratory

    We understand there are limited sets of facial features in the human genome but this story is ridiculously fascinating!

    It comes as no surprise that we see doppelgangers of Americans throughout our travels in Europe.

    Sometimes the remote twins look so similar William almost says Hello.

    This post contains excerpts of a letter sent to his daughter in United States

    Hold On To Your Socks

    But hold on to your socks for this next one. I climbed up the hill in Ventimiglia to get away from the highway thru the inner city.

    I knew in one block the crowd would be gone and one more block the streets were almost empty and they have more benches, trees, gardens and less fences. The smell of piss soaked Diesel cigarettes disappeared completely. (almost)

    Hold On To Your Cobblestones

    Overlooking the city is an ancient Church castle walled city still in use. Mostly as apartment buildings inside the old stone walls to house the people who work there.

    I was beat when I reach the top and stopped for coffee at a local shop and sit a bit at the restaurant. (Hold on to your socks, sister and please pardon my pronouns)

    Hold On To Your Hallucinations

    I look up because I see the pink polyester fabric with the embroidered rose pattern my mom bought me to wear for the school year in first grade. (Yes that shirt got my smart ass kicked more than once!

    Inside the shirt was you! (With a, yeah, I cut my hair shorter than short and bleached it myself bitch ,look)

    You ordered an ice cream (cuz it was hotter than a mofo yesterday) and you blinked your whole face and my whole family tree looked back at me.

    (My brother when he was young and my father and aunts and uncles from long ago and a lot of me)

    Then you, you looked back to me and smiled before digging into the ice cream.

    I’m still tripping on the pink polyester fabric and telling myself it’s probably not a good idea to start a conversation about how you look like my daughter and go from there.

    I really wanted to take a picture but too weird, right?

    So , I didn’t.

    Thank you for being you!

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  • Free Man Walking

    Who said , Freedom isnt Free? When I tell people I began my walk last year in Marbella, Spain, sometimes their face lights up because they think I have a lot of money. While it is true I am rich, in spirit. My wallet is not fat. I say it costs the same amount to walk

    A Tail in Two Cities

    They say, (them) the Universe only gives you what you accept. This is sometimes difficult to grasp as a novice conjuror who was taught to be grateful for every crumb to land upon my plate. (and I am, thankful.)We are trained to believe, suffering is good for the soul, money is the root of all evil, deny ourselves earthly pleasures. This crap was all written by the kings in the form of religion to deliver that opium to the masses before they realize there is enough for all of us on god´s green earth!

    More Horrible Porridge, Please Sir

    It is so deeply engrained in me that when someone gives me a loaf of bread, I eat it because I do not want to seem ungrateful.The sick trick here is, I got a wheat allergy going on and that free bread makes me sick. I forget this as I take another bite and another bite. Maybe I am just greedy for eating foods that are bad for me?

    I remember a colleague of mine saying, The Universe only gives us what we say Yes to. Now it makes sense to me. If I say yes to bread every time, the Universe gives me more because it thinks I love it!The same goes for being poor or hungry or bad habits or gravitating to places that look like they cost less money. I may be the first to tell you, it costs a lot more to live in the Ghetto of the Soul!

    The Ghetto of Soul

    But if I keep saying yes to all the crap, the Universe gets confused and keeps feeding me more crap nobody wants, no how! No way!If I keep putting on the same old pair of Stank Ass pants and shoes and foods and people, places and things, the Universe will keep giving me more of the same.This is a difficult habit to break because our brains want predictability and familiararity and are very uncomfortable trying on a new pair of temporal lobes. Come on Cerebellum! Cartegena and the Road to Riches has begun to appear.

    If A Plea Falls On Deaf Ears, Will Anyone Hear It?

    The only thing you need to change your life, is to change your life. Sometimes I fall into the same old trap because my societal training is so complete. If I keep doing the same old thing, the Universe will keep giving me the same old thing.I realize now it is my brain not feeling comfortable in a new situation. But Maybe I need to practice new situations until that feels comfortable. Acting as if you have been ther’e before helps you feel more comfortable in a new situation. Breathing into your fear and taking the plunge into a new environment is as refreshing as diving off that cliff and landing in the ice cold, sparkling blue waters of a new life!

    Do not just stand there on the precipice wondering what if… Take a deep breath , count to three and jump! Ready? One… Jump!

    Ha Ha Ha!

  • Holy Scandal International, Batman

    Holy Scandal International, Batman

    A funny thing happened on the way to Imperia, Italy. William was once again the victim of a strange but true crime.

    During the worst heat wave Europe can remember William stopped to refill his trusted Santa Vittoria water bottle.

    William thought he was alone in the town square as he slaked a tremendous thirst. William drank 12 liters that day.

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    Paradise Lost

    William turned his attention to his well worn paper maps for only minutes. That was more than enough time for the theif to snatch his bicycle from behind. Guess we do not need maps for Italy Tour of Bicycle anymore.

    William wasted no time crying over spilt milk, as there was no time to spare and no water to be wasted as he was keeping his appointment with the Imperial forces of Italy.

    Purgatory

    William found his load much lighter, both mentally and physically as well.

    The speed advantage of a bicycle can be lost in momentum as the Alps in Italy will not be outmatched by France!

    Remember this in the 30 degree centigrade heat of early European summer.

    Calling All Angels

    The next day William found himself once again summoned to France having no bicycle, no communications and only the shoes on his feet!

    He drew mightily on the power of silent prayer and meditation to increase his faith and intuition.

    William also drew mightily on the water he sourced miraculously from anywhere it could be found during this 40 kilometer walk from Sanremo, Italy to Menton, France.

    Paradise Found

    William found his personal protector in Saint Michael and his ever loving provider of food and guidance in Saint Gabriel.

    Remember to be forever grateful for every drop of water, breath of air and crust of bread that crosses your lips!

    Thank you Angels!

    Is This The End of William’s Journey?

    William sits again on hallowed ground knowing he does not need the laws of man to tell him what he ought to do.

    We will write more on this subject later as we respect the authority of the Italian government it may be necessary to return to America prematurely.

  • From Tende To Menton France And Back!

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    Every day can appear to be an uphill climb if you are not aligned with your Selfs true purpose.

    Again William tells himself to return to Menton, France and the Universe responded with punch to his belly that left him flat on his back and gasping for air!

    Hell Is For Children

    God turned up the heat this weekend of June 19-21 in the south of France in what can only be a scorched earth policy decreed from above.

    William pedaled desperately uphill towards Tende as his brain melted like margarine in a cerebral skillet.

    Free Phone Company Does Not Honor Contracts

    There was no water or food to be found as the markets were closed and the Free.prepaye.com company did not honor the thirty day contract William purchased.

    This leaves William unable to access his bank accounts as the Free.prepaye company Defaulted on the contract.

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    Stay True To Your School

    William found rest and respite despite the heat when reaching Tende and the higher elevations of the nearby mountains.

    William is grateful for this as well as everyone can expect.

    Ironically, William finds more of nature thriving in thick, full, green along with all the colors of the rainbow near the mountain tops..

    The drought is fierce near the lower latitudes as well as altitudes

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  • Keep Your Attention On Tende, France

    Keep Your Attention On Tende, France

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    Reasonable Accomodations

    As they say in the bicycling business; 5 hours in ascension and 5 minutes in descension! This side trip from Menton to Tende, France took us 5 days of climbing seemingly endless mountains but paid off in incredible view like the one pictured above in the memorial statue in Tende.

    William took advantage of the staff of the Hotel-du-Centre in Tende, France and the reciprocation was well worth the effort! If you need great accomodations, be sure to check in before you check out the trails.

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    Spirited Invocations

    We got another head check from our spirit guides as the ravens and green-eyed lady cats flocked together in an air-ground attack for the ages. We know it was a small sign from the universe to let us know it is paying attention. We say, thank you, and right back at ya!

    Prepare For Your Train In Advance

    Check out the rules for traveling by train with your bicycle in France. In some cases you can hop right on board without hesitation but on popular train routes at busy times of day you may wish to secure a reservation.

    We were stymied on our way to Italy as some guardians informed us at the tunnel entrance leading to the border: No bicycles allowed.

    This afforded us some extra time in the wonderful country of France and William wishes he could stay here forever and ever and ever!

    Remember To Breathe

    William finds the sport medicine gurus are correct. (links open in new tabs)When doing strenuous exercise: long slow deep breathing is best as it provides better oxygen exchange for the brain and body to function. Cramping is a result of lactose acid building up in your muscles and causing them to clench and becoming painful. Lactose qcid builds up in your muscles during anaerobic exercise caused by the muscle fibers themselves not getting oxygen.

    Take a deep breath and count to infinity!