Attention Barnum residents, this is a community notification of a new sexually violent predator in your area. Please stay tuned to the following short program for more information. Hi, I'm Technician Ron Hackett with the Denver Police Department. The Sex Offender Registration and Compliance Unit at DPD is responsible for the registration, monitoring and tracking of all registered sex offenders and sexually violent predators who live in the city and county of Denver. Here's a brief history of sex offender legislation in Colorado. Our state laws trickle down from federal government mandates. In 1994, we had the Jacob Wetterling Act, which mandated that states would establish a sex offender list. Megan's Law of 1996 said that the public would have access to those sex offender registration lists. The Pam Litchner Act of 1996 stated that some offenders might have to have lifetime registrations. In the Adam Walsh Act of 2006, unified sex offender laws across the country. In Colorado, the legislature has determined that sexually violent predators, by definition, pose a higher risk to the community at large and therefore mandated that upon their release from the Department of Corrections, the community must be notified. Sex offender notification in Colorado happens in two ways. The first is passive and ongoing through the sex offender registration process, which is a list maintained by local police departments. The second way is active via community notification for those offenders determined to be sexually violent predators by the courts or by the parole board. Most sex offenders in Colorado are supervised by the criminal justice system in our communities. Most sex offenders engage in crossover behavior, which means they may have been arrested for one type of crime, but be apt to commit another.  There is no typical sex offender, but all tend to be deceptive, manipulative, and secretive. 80 to 93 percent of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the victim. Sexual deviancy begins in mid to late adolescence. Sex offenses are not impulsive.  The community has a vested interest in helping offenders to be successfully managed in the community. Sex offenders have the same need for housing and employment as any other citizen. Any citizen who uses sex offender information to harass, threaten, or intimidate an offender will be subject to criminal prosecution. There are approximately 16,500 registered sex offenders in the state of Colorado. About 65 percent of convicted sex offenders are placed in the community on probation. The remainder are in the Department of Corrections or Community Corrections. Offenders may be caught for one type of offense, but be at a high risk to commit another type. Time of conviction is only one indicator of risk.  The offender's residence must be verified quarterly by the Denver Police Department. The full sex offender registration list is available by calling the Denver Police Department Identification Bureau at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Guided felons and those with multiple convictions are posted online at denvergov.org slash police.   Now, here's a look at the newest sexually violent predator living in Denver. Here's an overview of the registered sex offenders currently living in Denver. There are 2,613 total living within city limits. In Denver Police District 4, there are 485. Precinct 411 has 94 registered sex offenders. Of those, 59 have felony convictions and 35 have misdemeanor convictions. Joseph J. Halliday is a sexually violent predator currently living in Denver. He's 28 years old and was born on March 17, 1993. He's a white male, 6 feet 5 inches tall, 236 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. He's currently living at 236 South Julian Street in the Barnum neighborhood of Denver. Schools located within one mile of this offender include NAP Elementary at 500 South Utica Street, Barnum Elementary at 85 Hooker Street, Kepner Beacon Middle School, Strive Prep Kepner and Rocky Mountain Prep Southwest all at 9-1-1 South Hazel Court, Castro Elementary at 845 South Lowell Boulevard, Florence Crittenden High School at 55 South Zuni Street, Monroe Elementary at 3440 West Virginia Avenue, Kip Sunshine Peak Elementary at 3400 West Nevada Place, Savio House at 325 North King Street. Schools located within one mile of this offender include Westwood Rec Center Grounds, Drilling Park, Quatro Vientos Four Winds Park, Weirgolds Park North and South, Westwood Park, Barnum East Park, Bryan and Ellsworth Park, Sandos Park, Tennessee Utility Easement, Huston Lake Park, Kentuckian Irving Park, Kentuckian Knox Park, Barnum Park, Ford Place Park, West Barbell Wood Park. Barnum Rec Center's located within one mile of this offender include Barnum Rec Center at 360 Hooker Street. Bus routes located within one mile of this offender include Route 3 West Alameda and South Knox Court, Route 4 Morrison Road and West Nevada Place.  He's currently on parole and registered with the Denver Police Department on February 4th, 2021 to 236 South Julian Street in the Barnum neighborhood of Denver.  Joseph J. Halliday has been determined as sexually violent predator after meeting the following criteria. Criteria 1, age 18 or older on the date of the offense or under 18 and tried as an adult. The offender was age 20 at the time of the offense. Criteria 2, the crime must have been committed honor after July 1, 1997 and convicted honor after July 1, 1999.   Criteria 3, the relationship to the victim was one of the following. Victim was a stranger to the offender or the offender established or promoted a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. The victim was a 12-year-old female. The offender was known to the victim. Criteria 4, positive results are the passing of a risk assessment instrument administered by probation parole staff and a qualified treatment evaluator. Positive results include an assessment for the presence of a mental abnormality, a level of denial regarding the offense, treatment appropriateness and motivation, presence of sexual deviant interests. The offender was evaluated by the Boulder County Courts with positive results, determining him to be a sexually violent predator.


Welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fiedel. It's a 10 o'clock block here on a given Thursday with Tom Yamachika talking tax with Tom. And today we're talking about taxes in the tank hidden charges at the pump. What an exciting topic, Tom, and it's a great way to frame our conversation. Welcome to the show. Well, thank you for having me, Jay. It's another taxing topic. And this one is regarding the, you know, dreading the day when we got to go to the gas station and fill up at the pump between, you know, COVID-19, Russia versus Ukraine, and other economic factors. We are really feeling the pain, you know, perhaps less here than some places on the mainland. But we are feeling the pain here. The gas prices are over five dollars a gallon. And that was, I think, a couple of weeks ago. It's gone higher since then. So what is the government taking out of it? I mean, what has the government got to do with that increase? How is the government affecting that increase? Oh, there's lots of ways. There are a lot of different taxes that go into the price of the pump. We start with the, with the feds, they have a gas tax of 18.4 cents. OK, but that's that's just for starters. Then we get into the stuff that we impose 18.4 cents on a gallon. Yes. Oh, OK. That's and as we will see, that's peanuts compared to what else, you know, what else we are whacking on it. We have a state fuel tax of 16 cents per gallon. And then there's a county fuel tax. The cheapest county fuel tax is here in Honolulu at 16 and a half. That's another 16. OK, and it goes up to 24 cents per gallon on Maui. So the other two counties are kind of somewhere in between. Then there's a component called the barrel tax, which is imposed on any imported petroleum product or and or in other fuels. And its official name is the environmental response, energy and food security tax. What food security has to do with the price of the pump? I don't know, but, you know, that's what it is. We should spend a little time on that later in the show. Yep. This is one of the taxes that kind of went up, you know, heartily over the years, it started off as a nickel per gallon. I'm sorry, nickel per barrel. Now, barrel is one forty second of a gallon. OK. And in, you know, the short period of time that we've had the barrel tax, it went up from five cents per barrel to a dollar fine per barrel. So an increase of twenty one X and it now works out to two and a half cents per gallon. OK, it's small now, but there's other, you know, interesting and and, you know, perhaps foreboding the sights on the horizon. Are you done listing all the taxes on the barrel? Oh, not at all. OK. Then, of course, there's our GT, the general excise tax at four percent of the sales price, which is added on onto which is added another half percent in all counties other than Maui. So if we're talking about five cents has, you know, I'm sorry, five dollars a gallon as an example. That's that's what, you know, that that's what I paid recently that adds another twenty two and a half cents per gallon. OK. So all of all the state taxes that I've mentioned, I add state fuel tax of sixteen cents, Hodel County fuel tax of sixteen and a half, barrel tax of two and a half and GT at twenty two point five. That brings us to fifty seven and a half cents per gallon so far. Well, if you add to your gross excise on top of that, aren't you taxing the tax? Oh, yeah. Well, of course, you are. I think there's an exemption for certain of the taxes, but. It's, you know, the effect is very minor, if any. Yeah. Let me ask you this question. I mean, I like to ask questions that I think somebody out there in viewer land would be interested in. And that is why? Why is gasoline such a target? It's like festooned with taxes. Well, what makes it such a magnetic commodity that everyone should be taxing it this way? What happened here? I think I think the part of the part of the issue is that people got to buy it. You know, if, if.  And so so there there's a lot of Yeah, well, it's easy to collect. See the guy at the pump who sells it to you, he's collecting the five dollars and he's paying these various taxes. It's a snap for the government and the government gets 100 percent collection. It's very easy for them. They know who the the automobile dealer and the gas dealers are. They know who the manufacturers are. They know who the importers are. So it's it's it's pretty easy. There's not a huge universe of people from whom they have to collect tax. OK, now you scared us all by saying this was not the end of it. Let's hear the bad news, Tom. Well, let's let's let's start with. The carbon tax. OK. And our legislature, there is a set of people. And, you know, there's more or less depending on depending on the legislative season, who think that the price at the pump needs to be raised big time. And the reason for that is to combat the environmental threat posed by burning fossil fuels. So in the past several legislative sessions, there have been carbon tax proposals supposedly to pay for the societal costs of pollution, global warming and so forth. Now, in the past session, our bill number was House Bill 2278. And the proposal in that bill was to change the barrel tax, which started, you know, which is now dollar five to a minimum of five dollars and twenty seven cents increasing in phases to thirty three dollars and sixteen cents per barrel when fully paced it. OK, what that translates to is twelve and a half cents per gallon initially and seventy nine cents a gallon when fully phased it. So that would change the state and county tax on a gallon of gas from fifty seven and a half cents to a dollar thirty four a gallon if adopted and fully phased in at least now. If it adopted, what's the status of that change? It died last session. But that means that somebody else will raise it next session. That that's absolutely right. There are, of course, those who don't think an increase of this magnitude is enough. The carbon tax proposed by House Bill 2278 starts off at, you know, if you use the conversion factors on the government's websites, about fourteen dollars per metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted and increased to about eighty nine dollars per metric ton. OK, again, this is on a metric ton of carbon dioxide gas emitted by burning gasoline. And you can you can calculate that? Yeah. The various groups have suggested that a higher tax would be absolutely required to drive compliance with the state's net zero emissions goal by 2045. Now 2045 is not that far away. No.  But, you know, at the current pace, there's no way we're going to hit in a net zero emissions by 2045. OK, so there are people I think who have proposed raising the carbon tax, you know, if it's once it's adopted to as much as one hundred fifty dollars per metric ton. I don't think anybody has a carbon tax of that magnitude yet. But, you know, so this is intended to be the the stick as opposed to the carrot that forces us to go faster. Well, it forces us to stop buying gas. That's what it's going to do and presumably go to renewables and electric vehicles in this case. Right. You know what? What I don't get. And I hope this is something that doesn't disrupt the, you know, your train of thought. But we have a situation now globally where the price of oil is, you know, dramatically increasing.  And it's dramatic. In fact, in a lot of places, it's more dramatic than it is in in Hawaii. So and my guess is that's going to continue. The whole affair in Ukraine, the whole thing with Putin is that he is he's the kind of guy like Trump that that drills down. He's doing it and doing it and doing it. However, you know, objectionable it is. He's a persistent kind of guy. Persistent kind of guy. Thank you very much. And so, you know, the war in Ukraine is going to continue. The problem with grain going to developing countries to will continue and people will starve. The problem with the economy of Europe will continue. And the problem with gas prices and fuel prices from gas problem, you know, the gas gas.  Liquid natural gas and all that. That will continue. So what I'm concerned about is that these guys in the Hawaii government want to keep increasing by these dramatic steps, carbon tax or otherwise, while the price of gas is going up, they're really going to make it hard for the average Joe to get around. Am I right? Oh, yeah. And, you know, from the point of view from some people, like the environmentalists, for example, that's exactly where we need to go. You know, we want people to stop driving. We want them to go to that bike store down the street and pick up a bike. Well, at the same time, you know, you talked about the barrel tax and talked about, you know, the original purpose of the barrel tax was to de-incentivize gas and then take the product of the taxes, take the taxes collected and somehow apply them to clean energy. That was the original purpose of the barrel tax. Well, the barrel tax was originally there to create a fund to combat oil spills, if one should happen here. Oh, OK. That was like way, way, way, long time ago. Now you're old as I am, so you can talk like that. I don't know about the age thing, but but I do go into Foodland and they, you know, and they click that senior discount button without me asking, so that that depresses me. I'm sorry for you. But anyway, I mean, more recently, the whole thing with barrel taxes, we got to collect the money so we can apply it toward, you know, environmental action measures and food security. Well, you know, the food security thing is really interesting. Because what I get out of that is it goes, am I right, into a fund that does not contribute to clean energy, particularly, and does not contribute to food security either. So what are we achieving? Yeah, there are there are a number of earmarks on the barrel tax. It's it's been kind of a favorite target of lawmakers. So everybody wants a piece of it. Yeah, like the Department of Land and Natural Resources has a couple of funds that it gets. There is, in fact, a food security fund that the barrel tax feeds, which is, you know, and that that's why it got its name, you know, extended to food security tax.  And the other thing is it went from five cents, as you said, to a dollar five, presumably, you know, most of all of that should have gone to the purpose that was most prominent, that is developing renewable energy. But I don't think much of it goes to renewable energy. In fact, I don't think much of it goes to food security either. I think it goes to wherever they want to put it in a given year. It seems like it changes all the time. And the legislature sees it as a sort of an open target. And right now, I think half of it goes to the general fund. And then half of it is split into various, you know, special pots of money, including the Department of Transportation for roads or something. Or well, they get the regular gas tax. Yeah, they get this on top. Yeah, right. Yeah, the Department of Transportation gets the regular gas tax at 16 cents. The there are county departments of transportation and they get the, you know, the 16 and a half to 24. You know, that's that's their piece. And of course, the state general fund also gets the GT and and the counties get pieces of the half percent surcharge if they if they adopted it. I see fragmentation all around us here today on this.   Who knows? Where is the comprehensive plan? Who is in charge of these various the separate taxes and separate special funds? Supposed to, you know, help clean energy or whatever food security. And, you know, I think I think it really needs them. Well, I mean, that's that that's why we at the Foundation have been reeling against special funds all this time, because, you know, there are so many special funds, there are thousands of them now. And then, you know, if you you task one person with the with the task of how much money does the state have? They won't be able to give you that answer. There's no way. Because, you know, even for the state departments that are supposed to monitor such things like budget and finance, you know, they're supposed to get a report, the legislators supposed to get a report and not all of the other executive not all of the executive departments follow that law. Oh, I forgot or oh, oh, you're right. Well, I'll we'll talk to everybody, but there's 10 foot tall conclusion you have to make is that there's nobody coordinating the expenditures from these various funds, which seem to be directed at the same purpose. But there's no, you know, what do they all send a check to a central place? No, they don't do that.  So query, I mean, I don't want to take you too far off the track, but what what is a good way to do this?  Isn't isn't a better way to tax it and then and then apply it? Well, actually, I would just apply it to the general fund because the existence, you know, you you complain that the existence of a special fund, you know, allows for money to accumulate when it shouldn't. But that's actually right. But the flip side of that is the existence of a special fund doesn't allow you to spend what you need to spend in order to achieve a stated legislative goal. Well, I don't want the spending to be limited by the special fund either. I if the if the government wants to do something in the environment, let them do it and take the cost out of the out of the general fund. Yeah, that's that's how it's supposed to work. Yeah, I mean, all of our money is supposed to go to go to one general fund. The legislature has its power of appropriation and they are accountable to the people because they got to go face the electors every, you know, every two or four years, as the case may be, including this one where everybody has to go face the electors. So, yeah, there's some accountability.  Yeah, so that that that person may not spend anything just let it sit there, which and that's that's that's that's what's happened in some cases. Yeah, so including the Department of Transportation. Now, funny that we mentioned the Department of Transportation because they are also planning another attack on those of us who go to the pump. It's called the road usage charge. If you if you want to see what that is, there's actually a website called hiruc.org for Hawaii road usage charge. It's maintained by the Department of Transportation. And what they want to do is they want to they want to replace some of the some of the taxes that are that are in the pump currently with a road usage charge. And the way that would work is like, especially for electric vehicles, you know, alternative fuel vehicles and stuff like that, they don't pay the gas tax now or they pay they pay far less of it. OK. And and the Department of Transportation is concerned that they're not getting their share of gas taxes, which which they spend, by the way, out of the electric vehicle and alternative fuel vehicle users. So if I was an ordinary person and ordinary person on Bishop Street and you ask me where the road usage charge would go, I would say, well, it sure doesn't go to the potholes. It doesn't go to keeping, you know, maintaining the infrastructure. I can't imagine where it goes because we're losing the war on potholes all over the place. So where does the road usage charge go? Well, we don't know because we haven't adopted it yet. In in prior administrations, the Department of Transportation has trotted out, you know, lists of you know, highway improvements that they want to do, like, you know, highway widening or additional lanes here or an additional bypass there. And and and they and they in some years have said, well, look, you know, we don't have the money. So all these new projects are on ice. We're not doing them. We we only have funds to maintain what we got. So we'll maintain what we got in a questionable that that may be. And we're not doing anything new. So with the road with the road usage charge, they're thinking, well, we can do some, you know, some stuff that's new. Now, the idea behind the road usage charge was that it was supposed to replace the gas tax. OK. But but I'm not so sure because in this past legislative session. They they proposed a road usage charge on electric vehicles. That would not replace the gas tax. It would have been it would have been imposed in in in in lieu of you know, vehicle rich, the vehicle registration fee. And and so, you know, I was jumping up and down and I was saying, but the hell's going on here because because you guys promise that you're going to do this in lieu of the fuel tax. And and then they kind of, you know, hemmed and hot and well, you know, these these electric vehicles are not paying the fuel tax anyway. So, you know, what's the difference? But, you know, it sounds like we have a really serious government culture problem here is that every department wants to feather its own nest, every department wants to gather its rose buds while you may. Every every department wants to have a special fund and ample reserves to do what it might come up with, because it doesn't trust the executive to give it money out of or the legislation to give it money out out of the general fund. So they're all like like holding it close to the vest. It's almost it is it's competitive among the departments. This is a very much so a serious attitude problem, a culture point in Hawaii state government. Is this yeah, it's always been like that doesn't exist in other states. I mean, to a greater or lesser degree, perhaps. But I think, you know, in our state, it's blown way out of proportion. I mean, the amount of special funds we have is astounding. So this will this will result, presumably, in a road, a road use tax on top of all the other taxes that the Department of Transportation gets. Yeah, I mean, like for an exam, for an example, you know, I was in the Hawaii Road usage charge advisory committee that the Department of Transportation set up just, you know, I just just basically joined so I could see what was going on.  And so and so I did. OK, fine.  And I drive a hybrid. OK. And so they and so they come come back with a print out saying that I'd be required to pay, like, you know, eighty five dollars more.   Well, wait a minute. Isn't a hybrid attractive from a policy point of view from an environmental policy point of view? Why would they tax you extra for a hybrid? Because it'll pay enough fuel tax. Now I got it. So one tax is supposed to incentivize you to buy a hybrid and the other tax is supposed to be incentivized to buy you to buy a hybrid. So the whole thing neutralizes itself and winds up at zero. Yeah, you have that's that's that's another, you know, a very interesting feature about the taxes that are being proposed. They're at cross purposes, right? You have you have the car, the environmentalists who want the carbon tax and they're thinking this road usage charge is a horrible idea. And then you have the the people in the Department of Transportation, they're pushing road usage charge to to have a more equitable distribution of costs among the people who are using the highways and byways. You know, it strikes me that the governor should be handling this and coordinate all those agencies work for him or all those agencies should be coordinated and they are clearly not. Yeah, they're fighting each other. Great. Well, on top of this, I mean, lest we forget we we're going to have a serious increase in gas because of what's going on in Ukraine. It's going to continue. It's going to get worse. I mean, every day I look at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and it tells me the war is still going on and it's not going to get settled any time soon. And Mr. Putin is relentless. And so, you know, the question I put to you is if we if we keep on paying more at the pump between these gas taxes, various gas taxes and the price of oil coming into the state and the GT and the GT. Right. Percentage of that. Well, where where does that take us in terms of our economy? I mean, I really want to say the economy will tank, right? I know that that would be horrible. I'm sorry you didn't say that. Yeah, it was implicit. Yeah, yeah. But but no, that there there are, you know, these are what we call market externalities, right? I mean, they are independent of how the market works. So in irrespective of supply and demand, you know, irrespective of the normal market forces, that there are all these taxes to advance social policy. So, you know, is it a good idea? You know, there are various viewpoints on that.  And they are, you know, and the people who make those determinations are accountable to the people because they should be. I think you're being too kind. Really, I think somebody up there, the executive or maybe some leader in the legislature could coordinate these things and clean it up. So we not only know, but it's good policy. You know, it advances the stated policy of the state of Hawaii. We're not doing that. Yeah, we're not doing that.  Especially in an election year, right? Exactly. So that those that's that's the problem we've got. Yeah. OK, well, why don't you make a closing statement, Tom? Why don't you address your statement to the Hawaii legislature and tell them what they need to do? I guess it would be next year, starting January. Yeah, no, I mean, what we really want to see is more transparency in this, you know, how much you pay at the pump deal. So you know, enough of these multifarious taxes, let's do just one tax if you want to do one tax and explain what it is so people understand it and and then stop hiding stuff because if that's that's bad policy to hide stuff. Yeah. And if you want to incentivize electric vehicles, then do that. Don't give me an ambiguous message and whether you like them or don't do that. Give me a tax credit on electric vehicles and don't punish Tom. It's not fair. Thank you, Tom. Tom Yamachika, president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii. Thank you so much for joining us today. Pleasure to be here. Thank you and a lot. Aloha.


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There are many many ways that you can connect with spirit, but one of my favorites is through art And that's because it's a super direct connection Bypasses that thinking mental mind that uses words and so sometimes we can get some super interesting Just kind of understandings of the universe through artwork So if you don't know me yet, my name is Anna Christie. I'm a visionary artist And I want to share with you today a piece of a watercolor painting that I recently did that has I've been doing inquiries around it. Okay, and all these messages are coming through. It gets really Metaphysical so if you enjoy the the kind of metaphysical stuff about the workings of the universe Join me. I'll tell you about this painting I'll also reveal a little bit of my process for understanding the messages of a painting as well as I'll tell you about an upcoming opportunity where you can tap into your own ability to Learn more about spirit about yourself and about the universe through art just a little bit of history to the painting it It's been about two years in the works I did the drawing for it a couple years ago as part of a series about the all-seeing eye and You can see this eye shape in the middle So the all-seeing eye is really kind of about these concept of awareness and being aware of what's going on around you and So it wasn't until just a week or two ago, and I'm recording this in mid-October that I picked this back up again and Was just prompted to to actually paint it out and finish it and I do find that happens if you are an artist and Tend to just kind of get images channeling through Be aware that sometimes they'll come in and they'll be sort of Well, what I call visionary is Kind of not predicting the future but speaking to events maybe in a different timeline that way you're in right now Or different time frame right and sometimes that's why when pieces disappear for a while They will resurface and we see that also happening with famous artists Sometimes that they might not be very well known in their own lifetime But then maybe a few generations later suddenly they become really popular. It's because their art was so You know not even speaking to their own age. It was speaking to a different age and so Sometimes this will happen because it's your you know, whatever your higher self at the moment is understands that the future Whether it's your own self or the future collective will be needing these messages and that's it's just like almost putting information into a time capsule through the arts, okay, so one of the ways that I I work with art is in In conjunction with journaling, okay, and I work with the Akashic records through my journal and So sometimes I will start with an image like this because the image comes through it very pure right without the words and so It's it's like it so much as can be distilled into an image that phrase You know, we all know the phrase a picture is worth a thousand words. What really is and I'll touch on why this is important in just a bit But before I go into This painting I want to show you a drawing that came up just recently In one of my soul visioning sessions with the clients This individual gave me permission to share this simple that came forward when I do an energy session With somebody anymore. I am including a drawing with it A lot of times that'll be the drawing of maybe there might be an angel or an animal spirit or something It comes through for them, but sometimes it's symbolic right a symbol and in this case It was this very interesting symbol here when I went and did some enquiries around it and immediately when I When the symbol came through the words tesseracted caduceus that was given to understand that this is a tesseracted caduceus Well, we all know, you know that the caduceus is that the healing symbol right with the wand and the snakes and the wings That symbolizes healing a tesseract is like it's like a four-dimensional cube Cubing four dimensions. It's been expanded and but I didn't know what a tesseracted caduceus was or what point was meant by that So I went and did some inquiries around that and I was told That a tesseract is an expanded expression of mind or an expansion of mind And so they told me that and they by they I mean my ascension guides, which ultimately is kind of like the higher self, right? It's expressed in secret geometry through this tesseract shape the expanded cube, but that tesseration Thing that happens is not just for geometry. It can happen for all forms, right? Because every single form has geometry, right? Every shape every Being right and all of those can be subjected to this fourth-dimensional experience of expansion, right? They also told me that a time warp is a tesseract in time. So that was sort of an interesting thing Just a little snippet Okay, so then I asked Well, what happens, you know, what happens to the mind when it goes through a tesseration It said that when the mind goes through This fourth-dimensional expansion experience a tesseration, which is something that I believe that we're all going through right now, right? It said it gets fragmented and then it must come together as a unified whole But when it comes back together, it happens in an entirely different way So they told me just as you can combine carbon atoms in different ways to make completely different substances So this is what happens to our minds. This is why it isn't one reason why the ascension process can be kind of Disoriented and confusing it's because our minds are literally being recombined, right? And by the way, this happens with songbirds sometimes When they they have to between Migrations because their brains can only hold so much and they the scientists have done research that a songbird will it's like their mind sort of gets broken down and recombined For the breeding season for the different things that they have to do and it's just in order to be able to process the information So what I take from that is and this is just coming in right now with the help of the spirit animal a songbird, right? the ticketese in particular is that In this process that we're all in of this fourth dimensional expansion. It's it's not only a You know taking apart and recombining but also there's information that's no longer needed. That's just getting dropped You know, it's just getting Clearing it's just sort of like when you're you're clearing your hard drive or something, right? so that's part of what does happen here and So that's why if you I mean if your memory isn't quite the same There's certain memories that we actually don't need anymore once we've we've had that lesson So but they the message goes on to say that in reality there really isn't a fragmentation and this gets a little complex So bear with me Because they say everything's happening at once in reality, right and in divine reality But when you look at it from a 3d perspective it looks like portions are fragmented or lost Because not all of it can be seen From any given point when you're in the 3d world, right? And they say this is why you can be whole and yet appear to be broken So what I'm taking from this is beautiful message is you know, you're not broken. You've never been broken, right? It's just that you're going through this process. Okay, so if you feel like there's something wrong with you Don't Okay, this is this is one of the biggest things that keeps us in the matrix is this feeling of There's something wrong with me which leads to these feelings of shame and guilt that hold us down in there Okay, so just know that whatever happens, you know stories that have happened in your life It's part of this process of recombining and bringing us back. Okay, and so You know this this what we do the clearings and especially work with forgiveness helps to cleanse that all so that we can Kind of move through this process, you know what I'm going to show you another Precursor drawing to and this was this person had two sessions with me a week apart and this is very recently as I was starting to do the painting and The second one that came through is this kind of the star of David sort of image and I thought it was interesting because it was like rounded we usually see very straight sides And so I went and inquired about this one too and I was told that this Even though it's in two dimensions that represents the the Merkaba Which is this vehicle right for ascension and it says the Merkaba as it enters the material plane Softens it becomes elastic and forgiving and it expands and makes room for synthesis. Okay, so the Merkaba is something that Exists really on the spiritual plane, but it interacts And becomes the material and it's telling me it interacts with the void and this is can be understood as Representing the void here. This is the same middle The Merkaba interacts with the void it says it dances with the void it plays with it It invokes it it teases it abates it And ultimately the Merkaba becomes the more material in attempt to get the void to react But then my client had a really interesting observation and this person To this person it appears like the Merkaba is actually protecting the void So I think there's that going on as well and just be aware that just because I'm coming out with these interpretations You may get your own downloads on these images or other images And so trust what's coming through if you're getting suddenly. Oh, I get a hit on that I get a hit on that. I'd love to see it in the comments below Okay, because I think there's so many layers of understanding of these images that come through from spirit And when we collectively work together to understand them, it's great Okay, so then I asked what's the source of the Merkaba and it said the void and then the question That's my next question was how do the Merkaba ever separate itself or get born from the void and The answer was interesting the Merkaba has never been separate from the void Nothing is separate from the void. The void is the mother of all void is actually a misnomer as it implies Empty but the emptiness of the void contains all there is So it's just like this great womb, right? And you're probably familiar with this concept, but from void to incarnation is simply a matter of focus I'm going to go back to the painting here. Okay, so from void and this you can see that void in the middle There too to incarnation being you know being being here present, right? It's just a matter of focus to lose all focus. That's the void Okay, so that's not necessarily a bad thing, right? It's total awareness But it means also that the void you lose yourself, right if you're so completely Aware of everything and and that's the state of like the mother God, right? Mother-father God because it encompasses all right, but it's so it's completely completely unfocused because it is so Totally totally aware, but as soon as you begin to focus within the void That is incarnation as what you focus on comes into being and remember that focused vision is the masculine vision Diffuse awareness is the feminine vision. So this is talking about the act of creation Okay, so it's a matter of The focus right the infinite energy of the void shifting through focus in such a way as to break the total pattern of complete rest and peace And this is why stillness brings you closer to the void and you get still in yourself Okay, but as you accelerate towards an infinity you also approach stillness So creation is therefore circular or cyclical in nature now. I wonder this would get very very metaphysical I think this is a concept that we can probably sit with for a lifetime and and still be getting revelations So it's gonna go on but if you have comments or you know hits or downloads about any of this again Just put them in the comments. We'd love to see those Okay, so So asking a little bit more deeply into the painting itself Okay, and what I'm kind of seeing is the central figure here and it's almost like there was a lot of kind of You know these spiral things that showed up in that first drawing if you follow it. This is probably easier to see right here But I'm also seeing that in the central figure and that it's kind of looks like it's expanding from the center Also, there's this downwards triangle that is very prominent that usually You know is associated with the feminine or the divine feminine As well as there's all these circles that are intersecting. This is if you're familiar with the vesica Pisces I did a video on that a few months back. I can link that here and These are kind of like the basis of the flower of life kind of simple to go going on So just there's so much sacred geometry in here. It gets a little overwhelming But then we are in sort of overwhelming times Okay, so they're saying that everything that's applied to the Tesseract drawing kind of applies here, too. It's an expansion at the ether and The description is that this is a pan dimensional understanding of the universe. It's talking about many many different dimensions and being in many dimensions at once. Okay, so there The message is that this the central eye the center point represents the evolved being and one that centers itself in stillness and Thus is able to access multiple levels and directions of time and space So this illustrates being in full awareness, this is the Christ self and Interesting that they really equated it to coming into stillness Spending time in that void. I think this is really really key for anyone going through this ascension is the importance of really coming to stillness right quieting the mind of course, you know the Vedic masters and so forth have known this for centuries and centuries and you know master spiritual masters all over the world Coming to stillness still in the mind, but I think right now in this World it's Extremely important In my other business, I just wrote an article and writer as well. I just wrote an article That one of the pieces of research I had to do was that people know The current estimate is that we're exposed to like 6,000 advertising messages a day. It's crazy It's all this stuff going on right all this energy and to be able to come into stillness now Really hand it to yourself if you're practicing if you're on this awareness and the awakening path in the midst of all That's going on in the century right now You already have attained a degree of spiritual mastery that really is pretty ninja, right to be able to You know Be aware of yourself as an involved being So so give yourself some credit for the mastery that you already have attained Okay, so going forward here this here Represents the point of emergence. It's very center and another thing about the drawing that we looked at earlier I'm going to pop that up again is that you can look at this and see the See the the four directions and I also Wanted to thank another viewer for mentioning that order somebody who connected with me through through YouTube for pointing this out That's you know, this is really the four dimensions like it's like the medicine wheel And another friend pointed out that these really reminded her of the DNA strands, right? So there's an expansion in DNA happening But here's this point Which can also, you know, as well as the center can be seen as the point of emergence and we can see the arrows Going in all directions expanding outwards So they're calling it the point of emergence also an epiphany or a revelation, right? So that's an expansion of the mind, right? So this is the Christ self blossoming forward bursting forth from the center point of stillness and awareness So through focusing on stillness there we are opening and this talks about the cycles, right? So this is the eternal nature of the life force energy permeating the material world, right? It bursts into being the life force interacts with the void bursts into being and Comes forward as the Christ self playing its way Through it through the material world Life as vibration as an as expansion So we can see it as the moment of conception the moment of realization Right, so we have physical connection was it when a baby is conceived? We also have this until you know this mental realization, right, which is like a spiritual birth and Also the eternal expressing itself through the finite that spirit coming through into the material world to express itself This is what we all are. We are all spirit expressing itself through the material It's a miracle really and I use that miracle to mean that it's I don't mean that it's outside of Spiritual law or universal law the miracles just what we don't understand It is it is so vast that we can't even comprehend it, but we are living miracles all of us and So this here this image represents at once the shattering of the self right the ego self and the complete awareness and because what it's saying is like when we Burst into being when spirit comes into the material world. It's sort of like a prism Right, you've got this beautiful pure white light that comes in and then it through coming into the material world It just kind of shatters it so you get all these almost like a rainbow hues right and this is why We see God everywhere in the material world. It's because each Each creature each being each thing is a reflection of God or as an aspect or a facet of God Right including ourselves But then each one can reflect the whole of eternity Okay, so this is kind of represents that shattering of self that happens But it also represents the complete awareness of self as a sovereign being right as whole and It's fully reunited with all that is okay So each of us as a separate facet of God is off in and of ourselves a whole being Meaning that we had contained the entire universe. We contain God within us. Okay? and This is also symbolized in this one image so Get to that again So it's a complete awareness of self as sovereign as whole is fully united with all that is it is there for also forgiveness humor and love Going on to say it's the cycles of life ever returning and rippling and myriad variations and repetitions and evolutions of beauty Every iteration a reflection of light of the infinity of God's love Okay, so all this meaning and Probably lots and lots more you could probably spend a lot more time with this and get lots more meetings One of the things that I found was there's a heart shape in here, right? so it's this divine love that's coming through and permeating all of it, right and What it seems like everything that's happening everything even the shattering even the breaking, right? It's all Can you know comes back To love there's if there's no time where love isn't present. It just you know, it can be hard sometimes You know seeing from when we see things from one time little perspective if we're standing right here at this point And we can only see from that point can't see the wholeness of it Sometimes it can be you know, we can get kind of way deep in the shadows, right, but in The totality of all all is this beauty, right and encased in divine love Okay, so finally I asked one more question. It's like how can you use an image like this for healing and For this particular image they told me to follow the spirals They said don't try to understand because all as soon as they said that my mind was like what and they're like Don't try to understand, you know, just trust that the understanding will come in time They said you'll see that within the apparent circles There are spirals and I know that there are a couple of spiral spiraling things in here and But I think they were also talking about these circles that within the circles. There was some sort of spiral motion and they said to find the rhythm and that you When you start Working with this and actually they said to breathe to it find the rhythm in it start breathing to it And actually moving your body to it that it will Reset your system to align with the original clock of the universe and the universal heart And I suspect there's more inquiries to be done around that when it's this original clock of the universe this universal heart Okay, so thank you for preparing with me. I know this was a lot but personally, I find it pretty exciting and if you to Find it exciting like just really having fun with this and If whether or not you are already doing art, I believe everybody can bring through You know messages from the divine from the beyond through the meaning of art Okay, whether it's watercolor or pen and ink or Acrylic paint or just plain old pencil or marker or crayon doesn't matter Everybody's got it within them right in from the smallest child to the oldest person and so just a couple weeks ago, I Gave my very first visionary art workshop. It was really fun There were maybe a dozen or so people there and I just held space for each person to bring forth You know what spirit wanted to show them and it was really fun I'm going to try to post a couple more of their their paintings coming up here, but I just want to invite you I Have been just being called to do this again to offer this again so if you didn't get to make it I'm going to try to have it at a different time this time and Because there are some people that couldn't make it because it was so late for them so I'll just leave that link below and if you feel inspired to join us that would be awesome and and So that if you've enjoyed this give the video a big thumbs up And by the way, I'm going to have the print the link to the the print of this painting as well In case it calls to you you can get yourself a copy Or I'll be in regional for sale as well. Okay, so thanks again Again, we'd love to see your comments and I'll catch you again soon


All right. Let's get started. He did it. Yasha got tenure and we're here to celebrate his achievement. Just a short introduction about starting from the beginning. Yasha was born Victory Day 1986 in Moscow, which was then the USSR. A small and sickly child, Yasha was was reading at age two, but only really speaking at age four. When the USSR collapsed, Yasha's family moved to Israel when he was four. And by age eight, he decided that school was not for him. So for by in age eight to nine, he did not leave the house or go to school and was only convinced to start school again at age 11, where he started high school. And at age 12, he started college. And at this point, he through the help of a private tutor and friend, he became interested in physics and joined the physics Olympiad. He was the youngest winner at the time of the Asian Physics Olympiad. Here he is. And then he at this point became somewhat of a celebrity in Israel for being a child prodigy. So here's in the the paper of record. He graduated with his first bachelor's degree at age 17, before he graduated high school. And this created a bit of a problem. He had to write an essay. And so after in order to graduate high school, after graduating college, and the essay he chose to to write was how the Israeli or the Hebrew translation of the Lord of the Rings was bad. And the word of this essay got to the translator, who was a professor at the Hebrew University, who summoned Yasha to his office to say, what are you doing? How can you object to my translation? And after yelling at him for an hour, he offered him to do a PhD with him in literature. But Yasha said no, physics was for him. And so literature's loss is our gain. He then joined the military and got his PhD. And at this point grew up, you know, a little bit. Met Yad Vrata at age 21, married at 24, then moved to do the his first postdoc at Penn State in the US in 2013. In 2015 moved to do a second postdoc in the Perimeter Institute in Canada before coming to OIST in 2017. And in every one of his postdocs and now as faculty position, he had one wonderful child. I became friends with Yasha after hearing one of his introductions to someone's talk, which is very a combination of idiosyncratic, intelligent, kind of amusing, and slightly offensive. And I think this is really Yasha in a nutshell. Yasha works on quantum gravity. This is a particularly esoteric branch of physics. And I think this esoteric nature of the topic really attracts Yasha. I would say in our conversations, the 11th century Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, comes up like way more when I'm talking to Yasha than I'm talking to my other friends. So Yasha's work is basic research, right? So we hear a lot these days about tech transfer and academic industry collaborations and general applications. Yasha's work gives us none of these things. But I'm proud to be one of the very few places that would celebrate someone like Yasha. Some place that will celebrate someone pushing the boundaries of what humanity knows and getting knowledge for its own sake, free of any other gains. You know, you could ask, what's the point? But I think in a certain frame of mind, you could also ask, what's the point of doing anything else? So Yasha. Yeah, thank you, Sam. That was quite bad. All right. Can we turn off the projector, please? Okay. So let's talk about some physics. Now, the most important thing in physics is the Pythagoras theorem as it turns out. It took us a while to figure that out. But okay, so it's this. If you have a right-handed triangle, then there is a squared plus b squared equals c squared. And it's like a prime example of Greek science. And it's really cool. In case you've never seen the nicest proof of the Pythagoras theorem, so here it is. The two big squares are the same. The little orange garbage is the same in both ones. So a squared plus b squared is in fact c squared. So it's very nice, but largely useless and doesn't seem to apply to anything in the world. Like until you come and draw lines in the sand, we don't have right-handed triangles just lying around. And so it took 2,000 years for Greek science to develop into modern science, which takes things quite a bit more seriously. And I think this happened through an injection of really Jewish intellectual culture. And yeah, many of this is relevant to that. Because in Jewish culture, you see, in Greek science, this would be the domain of some small number of nerds who would care. In Jewish culture, everyone is a nerd. And by combining that with the thinking of the Greeks, we got modern science that really managed to eat everything and to transform everything it touched. So in particular, it turned out that the Pythagoras theorem is everywhere. And the way that happened is there was this guy called Descartes.   So there's a grid everywhere in space. And to every point on the grid, the fairies come and attach a label with some numbers on it. So every point has numbers x, y, and actually the grid is in 3D space. So there's also z. And here's another point, x, y, z. And so for every line, you must think just the line. But if you put on the fairy dust glasses and you can see the imaginary grid, then it turns out that for every line in the world, there is secretly a right angle triangle. And the length of the line then turns out to be the square root of this. So the difference in x, which is this side, and the difference in y, which is that side. And if there's also a bit of z, then we can add that in. Okay. So the Pythagoras theorem is actually telling us the length of every line in the world. Well, okay, fine. Smart guy. But how many straight lines does the real world actually have in it? Right?  How are you going to eat that? Well, okay. Then came another fellow called Newton and came up with another bright idea, which is for every floppy, floppy complicated thing, we can chop it up into infinitely many little pieces like this. Okay.  So we can do the same thing as before. Okay. We can say the length of this whole thing is, so for every little piece, there will be some very little dx. And then to get the length of it, we'll do dx squared plus dy squared plus dz squared and take the square root. And that will be the length of every little piece of line. And now we need to add them together. So we invent a new fancy symbol for adding things together. We call that an integral. Okay. And now the Pythagoras theorem tells us the length of any line of any shape in the world. Okay. So that's one achievement unlocked. Let's try to write that. So a squared plus b squared equals c squared leads to any length being an integral of these things. Okay. And this is an example of like the intricate relationship that we have in modern physics between like the real and the concrete versus some imaginary worlds. All right. So again, this grid does not exist. x, y and z do not exist. The little dx's, dy's and dz's do not exist. Okay. It's very easy to convince yourself of this if you're confused because just show me the device that measures x. Okay. Is there an x meter or is there a y meter? And like there's not. Okay. You can only see it if you believe in fairies. But there is a device for measuring length. It's called a ruler. And it just so happens that believing in fairies and in their fairy dust x, y, z's gives you a wonderfully convenient way to arrange all possible measurements that you can make with the real world rulers. Okay. And that's a useful thing to have. Okay. So a little example in case you don't believe me yet that this is physics. So let's start talking a bit about optics. Okay. So optics is about how light rays choose to travel through space. And choose through is a good word to use. So we can say, okay, there's a point A and there's a point B. Okay. What will be the path that light takes from A to B? And it turns out that the universal law that governs the answer to this question is that light will take the quickest path. Okay. This is called Fermat's least time principle. So what is the quickest path? Okay. We can try drawing some paths. Okay. And asking, which one will be the shortest? Then, of course, the shortest one is actually the straight one. Okay. Now, why is it the shortest one? Okay. Well, we can sprinkle some fairy dust and decide that this axis between the two points is called the x-axis. Okay. And then for the length of the line, okay, we have no choice but to travel along the x-direction. So we will always pick up these dx's. But only if the line wiggles up and down, we will also pick up the dy's or dz's. Okay. So the shortest path will be if we avoid wiggling up and down in any direction and only keep the dx's. Okay. So light travels in a straight line. All right. Now, that's maybe a bit too simple, but we can make it more interesting. So suppose there is a mirror. Okay. And then light is trying to get from point A to point B. And the new rule is that it needs to touch the mirror first. Okay. So now, okay, you have all kinds of different paths to try. So we already sort of understand that the segments need to be straight because anything else will be longer. Okay. But there are these different possibilities of going in straight segments. Okay. And say if you go from one possibility to the other, then maybe the first segment gets longer but the second one gets shorter. Okay. So which is the shortest one overall? Okay. So there is a fun way of solving this problem, which is, okay, we zoom in on one segment of the path and ask what happens when we change the path a little bit. Okay. So this segment will get longer. Okay. By how much? All right. Let's start giving names to things. Okay. So let's say the angle between the light ray and the mirror is called theta. Okay.  So, okay, by this much, okay, the two white lines are the same. The difference in length is the little yellow bit. Now, how much is the yellow bit? Okay. Let's say that this little dx here is by how much we moved the point. Okay. Now, let's maybe draw this triangle a bit bigger. So there's a right hand the triangle like this and this is the dx and this is the same theta as here. Okay. So the amount by which the segment got shorter, got longer is, okay, dx here times cosine of theta. Okay. Now, we can repeat the same exercise for the second part of the segment, right, where, okay, if this one got longer then this one will get shorter and, okay, but from moving by the same dx, okay, except now there'll be some different angle here, theta 2 and this one was maybe theta 1. Okay. So the amount we lose by moving the point a little bit is dx times cosine of theta 1. The amount we win is dx times cosine of theta 2. Okay. And the optimal point will be the one where we don't win or lose much by moving in either direction. All right. So if it's a good idea to move to the left, okay, well, that means that this shortening is bigger than this lengthening. If it's a good idea to move to the right, that means it's the other way around. Okay. If we are at exactly the right point, so we shouldn't really move either way, away from it. Okay. So that means the length shouldn't really change when we move by a little dx here. Okay. So that means these should be equal. Okay. So we get that when light is reflected off a mirror, okay, it does it at equal angles. Okay. Something like this. Okay. That still may be a bit too easy. So let's make it harder again. We said quickest path. Okay. Didn't say shortest. And normally you would say, what's the difference? Quickest, shortest, light always travels at the same speed. There's a speed of light, 300,000 kilometers per second. So, okay, shortest is good enough as a proxy. But sometimes the world is dirty and full of all kinds of materials. Okay. Like water or glass. I don't know what. And inside materials, light can have a different speed. Okay. So when light moves slower in a material, okay, we call that a refraction coefficient. Okay. And label it by the letter n. Okay. So actually the time that it takes light to move from place to place, what we're trying to minimize is now not just the length, but when we're moving slower in some portion of the path. Okay. Then we also need to multiply by this refraction coefficient. Okay. So now what happens when light is trying to get from A to B? Okay. And the refraction coefficient is let's say higher here and lower here. Okay. So that means here we're moving slower. So we want to spend less of our path here in the slow region and more of our path in the fast region. Okay. So probably the quickest route will be something like this. Okay. And that is indeed what happened to light rays. When they move from medium to medium, they get refracted like so. Okay. But by how much? So, okay, we can play the same game as before. Let's say here there is an angle of theta one. Here there is an angle of theta two. Okay. And refraction coefficients are n1 and n2. Okay. And we can play the same game as before. All right. So we need to choose at which point the light ray should switch between the materials. So we choose it by trying to wiggle it a bit to the right or to the left and see by how much the length of the path and then the time it takes to travel changes. Okay. Do the same little calculation as here. Okay. Exactly the same triangles, the same cosine theta and cosine theta, except now on both sides, we need to multiply the length of the path by how long it will take to travel along it. So we need to multiply by the ends here on both sides. Okay. So the angles are no longer equal. And the way to figure out how unequal is that, well, okay, only the dx cancels now. So n cosine theta is n cosine theta on the other side. Okay. And this is Snell's law of refraction. Now, okay, this happens every time we move from high to low refraction coefficient. Okay. We can think of that happening continuously. So suppose there's some direction in which the refraction coefficient decreases. Okay.  Then what will start happening to it? It will start bending like this continuously throughout its flight. So it will bend, bend, bend, bend, bend. At some point, it will bend all the way horizontally and start falling back down. Okay. That sounds suspiciously like it's actually a ball falling under the influence of gravity. And we will soon see that it's quite similar. Okay. But, right, this is what will happen. Okay. A quick way to see, okay, what is going on here is, okay, we write again the, okay, Pythagoras multiplied by n. Okay. So now if we're trying to get from point A to point B, then we would think, okay, that it would be cheapest to just go only along x without paying this extra penalty of going up and down in y. Okay. But because n is smaller if we go higher up, then it becomes worth our time, okay, to pay in de-wise in order to get to a region of small n where we move faster. Okay. So path becomes something like this. Okay. This turns out to be very relevant to the real world. Okay. So in the Earth's atmosphere, the higher layers, the ionosphere, have a low refraction coefficient for radio waves. So when people started using wireless communication and try to see if they can use it over long distances where the curvature of the Earth becomes important, they had a pleasant surprise. Okay. So you would think that because the Earth is round, then, okay, if you shoot a radio signal, say, from here to here, you'll never manage, okay, because it would just fly off into space. Okay. Possibly this is one of the arguments of Flat Earthers. I don't know if it really is. But what turns out to happen in the real world is that the refraction coefficient behaves like this. So the radio waves actually bounce back down like so, and so wireless telegraph across continents worked much better than people expected. Okay. So we're making good time. We understood all of optics. Okay. So let's call it minimal time. Leads to, okay, the hardest part of optics is n cosine equals n cosine. All right. Okay. Now let's briefly discuss tenure. So, okay, Sam was wrong in almost every particular fact, but, I mean, he's a biologist. But it is more or less true that, yeah, in 2003, I went to the physics Olympiad and as part of the preparation for the physics Olympiad, a good friend explained Maxwell's equations. And from due to a combination of these two things, I decided that I want to be, you know, a world traveling scientist and specifically to do fundamental theoretical physics. Ha-ha. Okay. And I want to be a Hollywood actor. Great. Okay. For some reason, this actually managed to happen and get secured 20 years later. Now, what is important to point out is that left to my own devices, okay, I would have made it. Now, I wasn't too dumb. So I made it more or less 10 years by my own resources, right? So during this time, I did the physics undergrad, did the army, did PhD, got a strange first postdoc. But from then on, I would basically need to find the real job and that was it. Now, the strange thing that happened is that somewhere in the middle of this interval here, okay, I met this absolutely amazing girl, that one, I guess, who has talent for making things happen. So very routinely, she takes problems that look far too complex, like the academic job market or situations that look far too hopeless, like, well, here's this idiot who decided that he wants to do fundamental theory for a living and he doesn't want to be friends with these people and he doesn't want to be friends with those people and he keeps calling everyone names and how the hell is that going to work out, right? But when she sees a complicated problem, she figures out how to make it work. And she can solve things before anyone can even put a name to them and she can clean up messes before anyone will admit that there was a mess or that they made it.   I wasn't the only project that was competing for her attention. Okay, so somewhere around this time, she got an invitation from the Institute of which this Institute is an imitation to come and go to grad school there to solve their problems. An invitation must be stressed, she'd not apply, they called her.  And so it kind of happened. Okay, so at this point, we're in America and okay, Tai gets born, low Tai and then because Radu exists and can make things happen, we then find ourselves in Premier Institute in Canada and Gali gets born, hello Gali. And then again, because Radu knows how to make things happen, we find ourselves here and I somehow survive being here where again, because Radu knows how to make that happen. So okay, and now I should I guess carefully point out because this project is largely done, her attention is again divided. And so just to bring it to your attention, if something near you is working and Radu is somewhere in the vicinity, please take very seriously the possibility that she is the reason it's working.  Okay, back to physics. So X, Y and Z, okay, were fairy dust. Okay, we just invented them, sprinkled them over the space, adults can see them, all the children with the special glasses can. But surely this timeline that I drew here, that's not fairy dust, that is real. X, Y and Z are fake and made up, but T, T is a real axis, right? Because there is no device for measuring X, Y and Z, but there is a device for measuring T, right? There is a clock. We can look at the clock and see, oh, it's 2003. Oh, it's 2023. And two people comparing clocks will always see the same thing and that's how we know that T is real and not made up, right? Well, not exactly right. Okay, so it turns out that, you know, if you take, okay, people like doing this with twins, but, you know, fine, unethical experiment, you take two twins and one of them stays on Earth and the other does around an interstellar round trip, you know, fast, close to the speed of light. The Ender's Game sci-fi series is pretty good at accurately depicting the situation if you want it in story form. Then, okay, then they come back and they compare their clocks and this guy's clock, the one who stayed, might say that it's been a hundred years and the guy who went there and back again, his clock, might say that it's been one year. And of course, not the clock that nobody wears on their wrist anymore and not only these new clocks that we keep in our pockets, but also the biological clock, right? So this guy will be old and this guy will be young and every sense of clock that there is, okay, we'll say that, okay, something different happened here and therefore clocks do not measure T. Okay, T is an imaginary label that we put on events, on points in space-time, just like X, Y, and Z are. So there is an imaginary fairy dust grid of both T, X, Y, and Z and there is not a device that measures any of them. But we do have clocks. What on earth do clocks measure? So it turns out this is the great victory of Pythagoras from beyond the grave that what clocks measure, what we should call clock time, or if you want to be fancy, fancy full, we can talk about the clock inside our brain and call it experienced time, you know, how old the twin is going to live, is going to feel. Any kind of actual true physical time, okay, the physicist's name for it is proper time.  This actually happened to a good person so this proper time tau is given by, okay, we already know it should be a sum of lots of tiny things and we already know that there should be something like DT here because, you know, in our normal life it does seem like the T coordinate is in fact measuring the same thing as clocks are, but also, okay, we see that if you travel in space, if you travel in XYZ, then your clock time turns out to be shorter than someone who doesn't and there is a formula for this which is utterly astonishing, so it turns out that we take exactly the same thing that we had in the Pythagoras theorem before and you just put it here and you slap it on with a minus sign, okay, or if you like we can just ditch the parentheses and write minus three times, okay, so this is a Pythagoras theorem for space time and this is the thing that clocks really measure, okay, we have thus learned special relativity, okay, honest to goodness, this is all that special relativity is, the rest is, you know, not Rabbi Lele himself, but somebody would comment here that the rest is commentary, right, so special relativity is an activity centered around the worship of this formula and understanding its implications and there are many, okay, so, okay, we learned special relativity, let's write it here that clock time is this four-dimensional Pythagoras theorem with minuses, okay, in particular the difference between space and time and the fact that there's one dimension of time and three dimensions of space and that a clock and the ruler are such different physical objects is, and that you cannot go backwards in time, et cetera, et cetera, is all hiding here in these minuses, okay, but we can also immediately take this formula and apply it into a law, okay, so in the story of the two twins, okay, one of them who stayed and the other who flew, so this is called sometimes the twin's paradox, okay, the reason people call it the paradox is they make it out to be, oh, look, they were the same, you know, this one was doing one thing and this one was doing a similar thing and then they compared the clocks and the clocks didn't agree paradox, okay, but that's of course silly, they were not doing the same thing at all, okay, one of them was dutifully staying put and the other was working a rocket engine, okay, so we don't need to draw the earth here at all, we can just, okay, this guy is here hovering in space, doing nothing, just quietly obeying the laws of physics, okay, so this is, okay, he's doing inertial motion, just doing what he's told, okay, while the other guy is, you know, working hard and burning jet fuel, etc., so we can now write down the law of inertial motion, so just as the central law of optics is that light will take whatever path that would take it minimal time, so here it's a similar but like delightfully backwards version that if you travel from point A to point B in spacetime, right, so this is at some time and some place and this is at some other time and some other place, okay, then you can take different paths between these two points and the one that you'll take if moving inertially, if not cheating, if not using jet fuel, if not using any forces, will be the path of maximal clock time, okay, so if you're just, if we draw the time axis to go straight between the two points, then the longest way to get from here to there, okay, the oldest that you can be when meeting your twin is if you stay put, okay, because if you wiggle back and forth in space, if you turn on your jetpack and start flying to the stars and doing silly things like that, then you will pay here with the negative signs, okay, so the time on your clock will get shorter, okay, so the path that you follow without any forces acting on you is the path of maximal clock time, so in other words, you know, the universe is just trying to spend more time with you as you go from point A to point B and all of your efforts are just working against that, okay, so now, okay, what does all this have to do with gravity, right, so you know, I'm working here for a while and because I got here early enough in the life of the institute, I got to be really shameless and call my group quantum gravity and then everybody else who came later had to invent some longer and more convoluted names and because of this, people keep coming to me and asking basic questions, okay, and for some reason nobody asks what is quantum mechanics, maybe they go to Thomas for that or whatever, but they keep coming and asking what is gravity, so that is the main idea of the stock, to give some sort of explanation of what gravity is in our modern view of the world, so the statement is that motion under gravity, under the so-called gravitational force, is described by exactly the same law as motion without any forces at all, okay, so the time on your clock when traveling from point A to point B is trying to be maximal, gravity just wants to spend more time with you, now, okay, then why does it seem like it's pulling us places and, okay, why is there such a thing called gravity at all? Well, what it does is it hacks into the formula that relates, is the fairy dust coordinates TXYZ to the clock time tau, so just as if you're light trying to go through a material, so there would be some refraction coefficient sitting in front here, but gravity is more subtle than that, so it goes inside the square root and what it does is, so let's keep the x squared, dy squared and dz squared where they are for a second and the dt squared, okay, it puts a coefficient in front, okay, so it's not just one as here, but one plus something, okay, this something turns out to be up to a little factor of two, exactly the same, that exactly the same thing that in Newtonian mechanics we call the gravitational potential, okay, so we have this kind of deformed coefficient in front of the dt squared and, okay, let's leave the others B for a second, okay, so what does that do? Okay, so we have our surface of the earth, say, and, okay, as you go up, okay, there is an increasing gravitational potential, okay, we're climbing up the earth's potential well, so in this direction there's an increasing phi, and, okay, I suppose we want to go to get from some point A to point B, okay, so the longest path without gravity, if it were just like this, would be just to go in a straight line, okay, so suppose, okay, let's draw the t-axis here, okay, so the longest path is to go just along t and not pick up any of these minuses, okay, and this is height, but once we start messing with the formula for the clock time, then, okay, then the path wants to go through the higher regions because time takes faster there, okay, and then it has choices to make, okay, so it wins some longer time by traveling up, okay, but it pays a price, okay, from the minus dz squared, okay, and there's some kind of balance between the two, okay, and it will end up taking a trajectory like this one, so shooting up and then falling back down, okay, and this is what the gravitational force is, okay, I think nobody really says that, they don't say it in high school, they don't say it in undergrad, they don't really say it ever, but this is what it is, so they teach you about the gravitational force, like Newton would talk about it, then sometime much later they maybe teach you general relativity, and then they mention as one of the physical effects, one of the, let's say, experimental successes of general relativity that we can do is, yeah, we can take an atomic clock, okay, put one on earth, put one on an airplane or on a space station, and compare them and find that, yes, clock tick, the clock stick more when they're high up than when they're down here, okay, and we call that gravitational time dilation, right, but the cool point is that this effect is the entirety of the gravitational force that we are used to, okay, so the universe is trying to spend as much time with you as possible, okay, gravity deforms the notion of how much time you're spending with the universe, and you just respond by choosing a new maximal time path, okay, so we learned general relativity, well, kind of, we learned motion in general relativity, so that's exactly the same as special relativity, except there's something else here in front of the dt squared, and minus the stuff from before, so now let's, okay, this is the entirety of the gravitational force that Newton knew about, okay, that everything that is about, you know, apples and the orbit of the moon and the orbit of the planets, and what happens to you when you fall off a 20-story building, but that's not all that gravity in its modern formulation in general relativity knows how to do, because this is only one term inside the square root. If we're messing with one, we really should mess with all of them, so generally, okay, there can be a lot in here, so we talked about the coefficient in front of dt squared, because it's dt squared, we call it like this, g with a tt, okay, and we can also change the coefficient if in front of dx squared, and we can change the coefficient in front of dy squared, and it quickly turns out that if you're already doing this, then you also need to allow yourself to mix them together, so there's going to be an xy, like this, and maybe a yz, okay, so a bunch of terms inside the square root, and because theorists are lazy people, we take all this, and we package it in fancy notation, so we say, yeah, there's a square root, but now there's this matrix of coefficients that multiplies displacements along some axis and some other axis, so we invent a little letter mu in honor of the great Minkowski, who understood this whole picture of what spacetime is, and nu, which is the next letter after mu, and g mu nu here, with the convention, which is maybe Einstein's greatest contribution to mankind, that, okay, we sum over all the choices of axes here, so this literally means all of this sum here, okay, so now the hacked clock formula is written in its full glory. Hacking, now people can come and say, nah, this is too complicated, we don't know how to multiply and take squares, and then you're telling us we need to take a square root in the end, look, if you wanted the force, if you wanted to change the balance of longest time from point to point, and surely there is an easier way to tamper with the formula than going and inventing coefficients inside the square root. We can just do some good old fashioned bias, yeah, so let's just say that, okay, we want to keep maximal, what? Hey, there's time on the clock, which is the t squared minus all these things, but we're going to cheat, and we're going to say, oh, by the way, and if you move too much in the t direction, you're going to pay for that some amount, some coefficient, let's call it AT, and if you're going to move in the x direction, okay, you're going to pay some amount for that. This isn't that simpler, okay, just instead of maximizing the time on the clock, okay, you introduce some extra thing that's added on top of the clock, simply without squares, without square roots, just pay a price for every little motion along t, pay a price for every little motion along x, and that's done, there you have a force, okay, things won't be moving along boring straight lines now. Okay, wonderful, it turns out that the universe does actually do this as well, and that this idea is nothing but the modern picture of what electromagnetism is, okay? So, yes, the simplest way to add something on top of just maximal time turns out to invent electromagnetism, so here we are here, so now the maximal thing is going to be not just clock time, but shifted by, this is still a good trick, packing up many terms in one little formula, so there's going to be coefficients along some axes, times, displacements along those axes, and this is electromagnetism, okay? In particular, this little thing here, a mu, is called the electromagnetic potential. Historically, here this price we pay for moving along the t-axis is called the electric potential, and it is responsible for all the phenomena of electrostatics, okay, of capacitors and sparks, and lightning, and your hair getting spiky when you rub balloons against each other, and so on, and these other terms in front of x, y, and z are called the magnetic potential, and they're responsible for all the phenomena of magnetism, and all the complicated ways in which the two interact that results in objects like electric generators and washing machines. And now important historical note is that, of course, generators and washing machines, the electricity and magnetism were figured out before all the rest of this story, and not only figured out before, but they led to it, okay? So this is a slightly modernized notation, I don't think anyone in the 19th century would have written it like that, but they noticed that there is some funny way in which the t-axis behaves just like the x, y, and z axes, and it makes sense to package them all together into one beast like this, and from figuring out the consequences of what that would entail, we ended up with the four-dimensional Pythagoras, with the, and the Feinstein's understanding of what a clock really measures, and ultimately with the picture of gravity as hacked into clocks. Okay, philosophical little bit to finish, so we already draw twice a picture like this, once for refraction of light rays, once for gravity itself. It's worth noting that there are two opposite ways of viewing this picture. Okay, so if we, if we zoom in on every little portion of it, okay, then it looks like, ah, okay, ball is flying up, and along comes the evil universe with its nasty tendency to maximize clock time, and it's pulling the poor thing back down. It tries to go up, but it comes back down. Okay, but that is not the fundamental way in which the law is written, okay? This is the best formulation of the law. The universe wants to spend as much time with you as it can, and this version of the law, what grown-ups call the action principle, is not talking about any kind of downwards force that is pulling you when you're trying to fly up. No, no, no, it just says, maximize this. Maximize this when trying to go from A to B. Now, when you zoom out and look at the global picture like that, then it begins to seem that you actually got gravity all wrong, because without gravity, the shortest path from A to B is the horizontal line, but because, okay, clocks run faster, up here, what gravity does is it takes that line, and it pulls it up, okay, and shows the way to where we belong, to the stars, okay? Now, I'm too sick to do the last bit, so I'm just not gonna do it, just follow the link in the email. Thanks for coming. Well, it's pretty self-explanatory. If there's no questions, I'd like to thank all the people that have made this possible, so the CPR for the filming and the advertisement, the Provost Office for putting this together, and the machine shop for making this special gift, which reads, Dear Yasha, your tenure marking you as a colossus in academia radiates extraordinary brilliance and indomitable spirit, profoundly inspiring our collective journey knowledge. We thank you.


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Moro na Frontera de Injeu? Na Frontera de Injeu. para treinar con o grupo Steele. Lloyd Kelly temo a treinar com o grupo esta semana. Max Arons é normal, é avial e será seguro na equipe. Continuamos com Ryan Fredericks out e nós temos que recheckar o que arriva hoje. E eles vêm do segundo jogo, Meps, Abba, Ryan Christie e Anto Ensemenio. E é still a recovery day for them, e eles treinarán tomoro e nós verámos como son, para tomar decisión na semana. So Lloyd Kelly non está pronta? Ele treina com o grupo, He started training but it's difficult for me to say today if we have placed in the squad. Probably he has a chance but it would depend also in other situations. 17 days since between Premier League games of the back of that incredible win over Luton. How have you used the time? Has it come at a good time to have the break or would you rather continue? We cannot change it. É xa always bad when you stop and you are getting the results. I think we are getting the results. But it's true that we recovered James Hill, we recovered Max Arons and Lloyd Kelly is there. We have used these days to train well but it's true that at the end you have a lot of time to prepare but with the players probably just tomorrow or just one or two trainings before the actual game because we have a lot of national team players. A win like that one over Luton, an incredible comeback. What can that do for the belief of this group going forward? I think it was a very important game for us obviously before we played and also considering the situation and the comeback. I think it's very good confidence wise but also has to show us that we have a lot of things to improve because first half was bad and we cannot give the advantages we gave against Luton to the next opponents starting from Everton. Because Everton is a team that can set very few goals and it will be much more difficult I think. How is Dominic Solanke? He's had this knee problem but he's had a bit of a break now having not been included with England. Has been training very well, has been training perfect. No issues I think has come in a good moment for him personally this break and we gave him past week one week a little bit of rest and time for recovery and he has been doing very well this week and I expect him 100% on the weekend yes. I mean he's going brilliantly this season but can he use his exclusion from the England set up as motivation going forward? I said it last week and I'm pretty sure he's not going to give up. He will try to push and put the pressure on the national team coach and try to make everything he can because I'm sure it's something important for him but he's not selfish, he will do the work he's not only thinking about the goals he knows that if he gives us the work and he helps us to play better he will have more chances and he will be closer to the goals. Do you think Garas Southgate is missing a trick by not having him in his group? No, I think it's very difficult, the job of Garas Southgate. I think he has very very good players available and whatever the decision he takes someone is going to feel like not in the best place but I think England has top-level strikers he called without even Harry Kane you can put Oli Watkins, you can put Ivan Tony they are very very high-level players and I think Dom is there and he's playing at least in this level, yes. Thank you. Hi Andy, just in terms of Sinistero obviously he's become an important player for you in terms of what you're trying to achieve here is there a chance that maybe he has played his last game this season and the focus is now on his recovery? No, I don't think so, I'm more optimistic I think it was a cleanest train I think he will be out some weeks but I see him even after the injury he came back and feeling like ok I will spend my time obviously recovering but I think he will be available before the end of the season we'll play some games with us, I hope so. Great, with ten matches left to go of this season what's your target now here with Bournemouth? My target is Everton right now we have now Everton, the most I can go is this week we have Everton Palace Luton for us a very very important week because also our last games of the season are really difficult against top opposition so we have to gain as many points as we can now and Everton starting from the next one for me I consider a very very difficult game probably the game we've lost more deserfly from the first lap let's say and in terms of Everton they haven't won in the league in over three months now you mentioned about them conceding goals they also don't score many goals as the manager here how do you prepare to take them on? I think he's a very good team they have very good players if you look at the stats they only concede the only teams conceden less than them I think are the three fighting for the title and it's true that they are not scoring as many so they are getting a lot of ties but they are playing well I think it's going to be really difficult they were much better than us in the first game we played there and I think we have to be at our very best because every goal will be even more important considering their stats and how they've been playing and I think we have to start much stronger than we've done last games at home if we want to have a chance yes when you last played them it was Everton that were winning and you were still looking for a win the tables have turned now so what's changed with you and what you're doing with this side? different moments obviously we have improved we were probably in the worst moment we've been in the season and now we are in a much much better position but we have to still fight and being a very good level to try to beat Everton otherwise it's not going to be enough they are a team that very dangerous in set pieces very good quality at front very good players in the middle I think it's going to be tough duels and we have to be close to our best to beat Everton yes and just finally from me it was such an incredible atmosphere here when you beat Luton 4-3 was it difficult in the following days when all your players disappeared all over the world and you wanted to continue that momentum to what it is I think it was a very good moment to have this kind of night considering the position I think it was an important game for us also playing at home but now our focus is to start stronger because we had kind of two comebacks against Sheffield United, against Luton so I don't think Everton will give us these chances and we have to start better these games and obviously always is but I think first goal will be very very important