Escalation—President Trump’s Bold Maneuvering and Strong Leadership

The trade impasse between the United States and China escalated on Friday.  China’s announcement that it would slap new tariffs on $75 billion in US goods prompted a bold response by President Trump to answer with a bevy of more tariffs of his own, and add a startling and unflinching threat: to declare a national emergency.

 

This is a complicated issue that has many facets and is tied and intertwined with certain critical aspects of the US and global economy.

 

Without question, President Trump is correct in his analysis that the trade deficit and underlining recession dynamics are connected.  Moreover, he is correct to have the flexibility and foresight to know when progress would be better served through bilateral negotiations.

 

While I am a proponent of free trade, and dislike tariffs as a whole, I also realize that if we are to survive economically we must close the trade gap to manageable levels.

 

It was a cleverly manipulated maneuver to broker a deal with Japan to include large purchases of American agricultural products, offering a base for possible future compacts, as well as driving a wedge into the TPP.

 

By chiseling into the TPP, President Trump allowed it to be used as a leverage tool against China and the Asian countries who have abused and taken advantage of our trust and trade kindness through the decades.  Additionally, by mildly threatening a national emergency, President Trump put pressure on China and the US business operatives working in China to be more willing to come to terms.

 

I agree with the President that if tariffs were going to be used they should have been raised higher.  However, because of the complexity of the circumstances, the manipulation point of the tariffs was a difficult amount to determine.

 

Lastly, Larry Kudlow, the White House’s top economic adviser, declared unequivocally that there has been no change in the status or posturing of the United States’ regarding the issue.

 

It is only strength that China recognizes and respects.  If the president and his staff remain unwavering and strong, our country will prevail in this trade stalemate.

 

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Singularity—The Ultimate Emergence of Life

Spacetime

 

Physicists, astronomers, astrophysicists, and all others who gaze at the cosmos to study its mechanics, were dumbstruck in 1905 when special theory exploded the scientific concept of the three-dimensional geometry of the universe.

 

Eleven years later, Schwarzschild’s first modern resolution of general relativity, calculated to its dreadful finality, further astonished the science world.  While science was able to conceive the reality of a four-dimensional universe, it was beyond dumbstruck when it came to the end of spacetime.

 

Even Einstein refused to accept the conclusion of his own equations. He was so overwhelmed and despondent by the inevitability of his own calculations that he would spend the rest of his life trying to refute his own math and preserve his own concept of general theory from the inconceivable pressure and violence at the brink of the event horizon, or at the incredible detonation spark of the Big Bang.

 

Many modern physicists of today feel the same devastating conclusion Einstein felt.  Thus, they seek other conclusions, refuting the math of the past, including Einstein’s, and seek to find other theories that can lead not to answers to the questions they have about the unknown reality we exist in, but just lead to the correct questions they should ask.

 

In other words: modern physicists have become so humbled by the immensity and complexity of the known universe that they no longer believe any of the answers they once thought we knew about it.

 

In the modern age of science, physicists are simply looking for the correct question(s) to ask in order to acquire the most basic answers concerning natural physics.  Whether they use the tetrahedron,or introduce the jewel-like amplituhedron, science is seeking places and new ways to interpret and understand the universe, even at its most basic level.  In the wake of all the chaos, modern science has become blind and deaf.

 

While I do not like to see confusion, preferring to teach and reveal the secrets of life and the universe, I must admit it is comforting to me to see the most brilliant scientific minds left as dumbfounded as a newborn infant when confronted with the end of spacetime and the approach to gravitational singularity.

 

“The ascension to the tenth level of intellectual heaven,” says Nima Arkani-Hamed, describing the ultimate goal of physics, “would be if we find the question to which the universe is the answer, and the nature of that question in and of itself explains why it was possible to describe it in so many different ways.”

 

“It now appears that the answers surround us.  It’s the question we don’t know.”

 

I know the questions and, more importantly, the answers science seeks.

 

Time No More

 

In the end of days, the transcendent Gardener will declare that there should be time no longer.

 

But if time will be no more then, then time is no more now.

 

This is what science fears.

 

It is why science no longer wants to believe their own math as it breaks down at the singularity.

 

Science has stopped trying to conclude and progress toward the singularity.

 

I refuse to stop.

 

I will continue toward the singularity.

 

I will continue toward the unknowable (knowable) question.

 

As science runs from the truth of the math, I do not run away in fear, but take a stand to know the truth.

 

As science runs from the truth of the singularity, I not only embrace its reality, I seek it.

 

As science trembles in dread at the destruction of their laws of physics, I realize the fallacy of resisting the mathematical precision of gravitational singularity.

 

I accept the conception of “time no more” that the transcendent Gardener declares.

 

I live for “time no more.”

 

Singularity

 

I live to exist in the singularity.

 

In the Arimathea Garden, I strive to follow the math toward the singularity.  There, at the feet of the transcendent Gardener, I feel the pressures of life end. I feel pain and sickness expire.

 

In the Arimathea Garden, death is no more.

 

As in the cosmos, spacetime is warped and bent in Arimathea’s singularity.  Time has come to a stop there.

 

Within the amended soil, by the Gardener’s preparation of the seed to the root, I return to an earlier, different place and time.

 

I live a new life that I should’ve lived.

 

Those whom I have loved and lost live again in the soil of my ultimate perfection.

 

I am happy and complete in Arimathea’s singularity.

 

I see myself as I am, not as I was.  I recover the people and things I’ve lost.  I see my greatest hope and treasure in the garden and believe that all things are possible.

 

I believe and I hope.

 

In the singularity at the center of Arimathea’s perfection—even to the end of time—life will never end.

 

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Creator—The Creative Immensity of the Transcendent Carpenter

4.5 Billion Years

 

In the germ of an unblemished idea comes the creative immensity of the transcendent Carpenter.  It is this immensity that I attempt to discover when I reach for my tools.

 

The firmament rests upon a framework of unfathomable dimensions and incalculable magnitudes.  Upon each subatomic particle, upon the minutest substrate, the transcendent Carpenter assembles the heavens to sustain our existence.  From the troposphere, into the stratosphere, ascending and elevating into mesosphere, the perfection and balance of the transcendent Carpenter’s creative power humbles the human spirit.

 

In my life, there’s so much I’ve attempted to learn about the creation we exist in. From the large bodies and objects that hang on the fabric of the cosmos, to the most basic elements that drive our continuation, I am left stunned at the marvel of this creation.  My intelligence is unable to comprehend the brilliance of such an awesome construction.

 

Science says that our earth is 4.5 billion years old.  It would take me every single one of those years to describe the emotions I feel when I observe a butterfly or a bee gracefully flutter through the summer air, or when I catch the fragrance of a fresh flower.

 

I am a writer—a wordsmith of ideas and stories, a composer of literary fiction—and yet, if I were granted to live for 4.5 billion years, I believe I would still be unable to put into words the amazement and wonder I feel when I gaze across the horizon at the spectacle of a sunset.

 

No amount of time would be sufficient for my intellect to process such tremendous virtuosity.

 

Dark Energy

 

Just when science said it was misguided and a deceased theory, yet another new string theory structural concept that incorporates dark energy has emerged.  Ever since science realized that the universe was expanding at an ever-accelerating rate—that the catalyst for its expansion is the dominant presence of “dark energy” throughout the cosmos—science has been preoccupied with learning exactly what dark energy is.  The new string theory, referred to as “The Bubble Universe”, follows all the pervious string theories that science has rejected, and that math has refuted.  It has long been hoped that string theory will prove the existence of dark energy, moreover, that it will provide a unified field theory—a theory of everything—the ultimate desideratum of Einstein’s General Theory.

 

Unless its foundation is centered upon stronger models and perceptions, science will ultimately fail to discover the secrets that remain hidden under the fabric of this creation.

 

Throughout the cosmos there exist clues of what dark matter is.  But like the earthly carpenter that desires to conceal and disguise the fastener methods employed in the project, so the transcendent Carpenter hides the fasteners He used to fasten the entire universe into the singular fabric of all existence.  Comparable to the transcendent carpenter’s skill to conceal the fasteners and buckles used to fabricate His creation of the universe, so I, the earthly carpenter, make use of joinery and woodcraft to accomplish aesthetics in my finished creations.  He is far more efficient than I in concealing His artistry and skill.

 

The transcendent Carpenter is not only a builder, He is a creator of awesome talent and skill.

 

There’s so much of the cosmos we don’t know about.  This will continue through our existence in this realm.  But our deficiency of understanding should not suspend or obstruct our appreciation of the work and craftsmanship of the transcendent Carpenter.

 

On a dark, stormy night I witnessed the spectacle of the Almighty across the evening skies.  The immediate heavens above me displayed a clear night sky, the heavenly beauty of stars and planets extending out into a seemingly measureless forever.  However, in the distant sky, a thick cloud cluster covered the heavens and a violent lightning storm ignited.

 

Standing upon a hill, I witnessed the storm in awe.  As each lightning bolt exploded in the night, I was mesmerized by the violence and beauty of the spectacle.  I cared not how the heavenly wonder sat suspended above me, or its logical significance to earthly survival.  I lost my breath at the splendor of the heavens.

 

Taking in the celestial magnificence directly above me, I looked out at the massive lightning bolts flashing across the distant sky.

 

And I marveled.

 

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