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da Vinci

2/28/2026

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1452-1519

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is a masterpiece of mathematical precision, utilizing strict linear perspective, the golden ratio, and geometric symmetry. All architectural lines converge on Jesus’s right temple, creating a perfect vanishing point that directs attention to the center, where Christ forms an equilateral triangle. Walks of Italy +4

He was a pioneering anatomist who conducted over 30 secret, detailed dissections of human cadavers to fundamentally improve artistic realism and scientific understanding. He produced over 200 drawings, accurately mapping muscles, bones, vascular systems, and fetus in the womb, often using 3D, layered techniques. BBC +4

correction: baby


painting the Outsider
The shape of His lips is a bird in flight.
​The hair curls and waves aren't just that: think mathematically.
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Harvard/Ivy League

2/11/2026

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The cut applies to Professional Military Education (PME), a structured, career-long program of instruction designed to develop the leadership, intellectual, and technical capabilities of officers and noncommissioned officers (NCOs). It is a "progressive and sequential" system focusing on military expertise, doctrine, and decision-making to create prepared leaders, as described in the Army University Press.
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  • Harvard is ranked #1 in the world.
  • Princeton: DEI SUB NUMINE VIGET  Under God's power she flourishes.
  • Tradition refers to universities, ships, and the Church in the feminine form.
  • Within the shield are multiple triangles and a right angle, or carpenter's Try Square.
  • Official name of the cabinet-level agency 1789-1947: United States Department of War
  • For all the disbelieving Catholics, I'm reposting the triangle!
fresco 1509-1510
Raphael 1483-1520
Dante 1265-1321
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Epstein

2/2/2026

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Rockefeller POB NYC 6/12/1915 - 3/20/2017
Epstein POB Brooklyn NY 1/20/1953 - 8/10/2019
Kissinger POB Fürth 5/27/1923 - 11/29/2023
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​Epstein interview

https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/2017792281902710973?s=20
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF)
Since 2011 the RBF has donated significant funds to support anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian organizations and protests. It has become the most important source of funding for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions political campaign.

https://www.rbf.org/​​
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Rockefeller
The Rockefeller Fund supported eugenics even after it was discovered that Nazi eugenic programs were designed to shun and denigrate Europe's Jewish population.

Eugenics
In 1883, British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton coined the term eugenics. Influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, Galton advocated a system that would allow the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable.
Britannica

Wall Street
An actual city wall existed on the street from 1653 to 1699. During the 18th century, the location served as a slave market and securities trading site, and from 1703 onward, as the location of New York's city hall, which became Federal Hall.
​Wikipedia


Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems.

Mathematics
Google AI Overview
Q. Did Epstein major in math in college?
A. No, Jeffrey Epstein did not graduate from college, and while he studied math and physics, he did not formally major in mathematics.


Here are the details of his education:
  • College Attendance: Epstein attended Cooper Union for two years between 1969 and 1971.
  • No Degree: He later attended New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences but left without receiving a degree.
  • Teaching Experience: Despite not having a bachelor's degree, he was hired to teach physics and mathematics at the elite Dalton School in New York from 1973 to 1975.

​Though he did not graduate, Epstein was known to have a strong aptitude for math and physics. He lived on a farm.

Interview
During the interview, he answered questions about:
math
physics
the soul
music
poetry
writing
philosophy
ethics
education
the devil
Christ
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Sundays incorrect

2/1/2026

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Mass
If you see Sundays in Ordinary Time, you know that you are in the wrong place. The Third Edition of the Roman Missal, printed on flimsy, throw-away paper, promulgated in 2000, and introduced to English-speaking parishes in 2011, is false, using bad translations. The 1962 Roman Missal (Vulgate and Douay-Rheims) follows the valid liturgical calendar, which divides the year into seasons, such as "Time After Epiphany" and "Time After Pentecost". Sundays are numbered based on their relation to these feasts, not "Ordinal Time".

Today is Septuagesima, Latin for 70th, both the name of the liturgical season and the name of the Sunday, marking the beginning of the shortest season, including Sexagesima and Quinquagesima, seventeen days long until Ash Wednesday, like a countdown, seven, six, five. The color is purple.

Babylonian mathematics, developed in Mesopotamia around 2000–1600 BC, was an advanced sexagesimal base-60 positional system.


Calendars
There are three calendars: lunar, Julian, and Gregorian, corresponding to the ancient Hebrews, ancient Romans, and the calendar corrected by Pope Gregory XII in 1582 through the papal bull Inter Gravissimas. It corrected the inaccuracies of the Julian calendar, which had drifted by 10 days, by skipping those days in October 1582 to realign the calendar with the solar year and seasons. Everybody uses that calendar, further justifying BC and AD.

​UTC
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard used in outer space, particularly for the International Space Station (ISS). It acts as a neutral, consistent reference point for global ground control teams to coordinate activities. Catholic circumscribes Universal.
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Seasons, Equinox, and Solstices
National Weather Service, HQ Silver Spring, Maryland
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

As part of NOAA, it operates a national network, including 122 local weather forecast offices across the US, such as the Sacramento office in California, nine national centers, and six regional headquarters located in Kansas City, Bohemia (NY), Fort Worth, Salt Lake City, Anchorage, and Honolulu.
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Keevers math music

1/31/2026

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Algebra of Musical Tuning Systems
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Posted on February 28, 2023, by billkeevers

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Simple summary of two points:
  • Three main paths to tuning from Pythagoras and other ancient Greeks are inter-related and give us greater insight into music in the main and the metaphysics of mathematics behind music.
  • The three main tuning systems have highly comprehensible, main characteristics that throw off unnecessary complications — you can get a higher viewpoint if the topic is correctly presented.
​billkeevers.wordpress.com/2023/02/28/algebra-of-musical-tuning-systems

Cosmic Octaves
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Ram & Fuji

1/28/2026

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Fibonacci Sequence
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the 15-mile-long shadow of Mt. Fuji
The photos were posted by Quora members.
They did not know what they had observed.

Do you?

Ram
  1. Logarithmic Growth: As the horn grows, it follows a spiral pattern often found in nature, similar to that of a nautilus shell or a snail's shell.
  2. Golden Ratio Approximation: The spiral shape is closely linked to the golden ratio, that is, ϕ ≈ 1.618, derived from the Fibonacci sequence, uncovered by Leonardo Fibonacci, an Italian mathematician from Pisa (Liber Abaci, AD 1202).
  3. Natural Spiral: This and other natural examples like a fern unfurling and storm clouds are curls that match the mathematical proportions.
Shadow
  1. Fuji displays a truncated pyramid.
  2. In the Latin Mass, the chalice is covered by a stiffened, square linen cloth called a pall (Latin: palla), which is placed over the top to protect the wine and, post-consecration, the Precious Blood from dust or insects. A chalice veil (usually in the liturgical color of the day) and a burse (containing the corporal) often cover the entire vessel until the offertory.
  3. This configuration resembles a truncated pyramid.
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Intelligent Design

1/27/2026

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  • Michael Behe, biochemist and author of Darwin’s Black Box, known for advocating the concept of “irreducible complexity”
  • Jonathan Wells, molecular and cell biologist associated with the Discovery Institute
  • Ann Gauger, senior research scientist with a focus on developmental biology and evolutionary informatics
  • Douglas Axe, molecular biologist and director of the Biologic Institute, often linked with mathematicians, whose research on protein folding and functional sequences argues for intelligent design
  • Todd C. Wood, biochemist and young-earth creation advocate
  • Michael Denton, researcher whose work on biological complexity is often cited
  • Siegfried Scherer, biologist and author
  • Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer, anthropologist and biologist
  • Jeff Schloss, biologist specializing in evolutionary theory
  • Nathaniel T. Jeanson, cell and developmental biologist
  • Ian Macreadie, molecular biologist and microbiologist
  • David A. DeWitt, researcher in neuroscience and molecular biology
  • Granville Sewell, mathematician who has written on the application of thermodynamic arguments to biological evolution, arguing that complex structures require design
  • John Lennox, mathematician and philosopher of science at Oxford University, arguing that the intelligibility of the universe and the complexity of life indicate a designing mind
  • Ariel A. Roth, biologist and former director of the Geoscience Research Institute
  • Georgia Purdom, molecular geneticist
  • Gary E. Parker, biologist and author
  • John C. Sanford, plant geneticist and author of Genetic Entropy
  • Arthur Jones, biologist
  • Stephen C. Meyer, geophysicist
  • William A. Dembski, mathematician and philosopher, Law of Conservation of Information, irreducible intelligence, "specified complexity"
  • David Berlinski, mathematician, philosopher, and senior fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, author of works arguing against evolutionary theory and supporting the idea of intelligent design​​
That is a short list of biologists, biochemists, related life scientists, and mathematicians who have publicly expressed belief in intelligent design (ID) or argued against naturalistic evolution in favor of a designer.
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Cosmic Octaves

1/25/2026

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1/23/2026
Deviations
All the deviations are well below 1.

Negative Exponents
A negative exponent does not make the result a negative number; it results in a fraction, a small decimal, and the larger the negative exponent, the smaller the fraction.

Fractals
Fractals are complex, repeating geometric patterns that are self-similar across different scales, meaning they look similar no matter how much you zoom in. Created through repeating simple, iterative mathematical processes, they exhibit detailed, nested structures found both in abstract mathematics (for example, the Mandelbrot set) and throughout nature, such as in trees, clouds, rivers, and snowflakes.

Thomas Aquinas
First Principles & Music

Thomas Aquinas wrote extensively on first principles, defining them as indemonstrable, self-evident foundations for all knowledge, science, and morality. Rooted in Aristotelian thought, he argued that these principles are grasped by the intellect upon experiencing reality, with the primary ontological principle being that "being is being".

During his 48 years, he wrote about eight million words and composed five major Eucharistic hymns. Written around 1264 at the request of Pope Urban IV for the Feast of Corpus Christi, these works include Pange Lingua (which contains Tantum Ergo), Lauda Sion, Sacris Solemniis, Verbum Supernum, and the personal prayer Adoro Te Devote.


Karin Öberg ETs
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Malinowski

​Fontgombault, 11th century Benedictine abbey (cloistered, i.e. enclosed) and its village, are on the banks of the river Creuse (hollow, as in a small, narrow valley or basin between mountains or hills, typically featuring a stream or creek), nestled along the wooded banks of this tributary of the river Vienne (Vienna).
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  1. Size: While some reports indicate around 60 monks, more recent data suggests that nearly 80 monks from 10 different nationalities are in residence.
  2. Demographics: The monastic body is known for a relatively young average age of 40, with ages ranging from 20 to 85.
  3. Background: The abbey was refounded in 1948 by monks from Solesmes and follows the Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Roman Missal).
  4. Foundations: Fontgombault has founded other monasteries, including Randol, Triors, Gaussan, and Clear Creek Abbey, USA.
  5. Growth: The foundation grows while others dwindle.
  6. Call: ​If God calls, this is the place to be.
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YT subscriptions

1/24/2026

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At this time, I subscribe to 50 YouTube channels, about five that are Catholic, pertaining to math, science, art, music, and literature. Bickering, unfriendly Catholics are behind the times. Not one is there to lead the 10th crusade.
Sexagesima Sunday is upcoming, 2/8/2026.
Malinowski
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Malinowski

1/24/2026

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Stephen's Solar System circles are strikingly simple.
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It is possible to ski on the Moon at the South Pole. The low gravity (1/6th of Earth) would make it possible to ski, jump, and glide effortlessly over the lunar surface, often without needing formal skis at all!


this is that one

more math metaphors
Chopin & Liszt
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The Ballet Triangle

1/23/2026

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Duet for Three
When you have two guys of the same height, then you have an equilateral triangle, and the same in the Latin Mass when the altar boys are of the same height, a metaphorical compari-son.
Elle x/y axis
The boy says, "They're fine."
The ballet shoe fitter politely corrected Elle: it's not wood.

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life in a bottle

1/23/2026

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Plants in a glass bottle use sunlight, trapped carbon dioxide, and water to create energy, releasing oxygen and moisture into the air inside. Water evaporates from the soil and plants, condensates on the glass walls, and drips back down as rain, maintaining a constant, recycled water supply. Bacteria and microorganisms in the soil break down decaying organic matter, releasing nutrients back into the soil, while also releasing carbon dioxide for the plants. A properly constructed bottle requires layers of gravel for drainage, soil, and plants, creating a self-contained habitat. The question put by the physicist to the chemist, Karin Öberg, is, can a sentient being be produced? What is the probability? Mathematical probability ranges from zero to one, no occurrence to 100%, impossible vs certain.
Karin Öberg ETs
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more math metaphors

1/21/2026

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The Kite
Spiritual Metaphors
  1. The Holy Ghost: The wind that carries a kite is frequently compared to the Holy Ghost—invisible yet powerful enough to lift the spirit toward God.
  2. The Commandments: The kite string represents God's laws and covenants, and just as a string provides the tension necessary for a kite to soar against the wind rather than crashing, the Commandments provide boundaries for spiritual freedom.
  3. The Sacraments: Some metaphors liken the seven sacraments to a kite soaring in the sky, each filling the believer with grace to stay close to heaven.
  4. The KITE Model: This educational framework (K.I.T.E.) is used to teach Scripture by moving children from the literal to a deeper meaning.
wheel in a wheelXChopin geometryX​a different education
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ternary v binary

1/16/2026

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ter·na·ry /ˈtərnərē/ adjective mathematics
-1 0 1, composed of three parts
using three as a base
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12/18/2025
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Christ the Man

1/6/2026

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​Whenever I write about Him, I emphasize His Manhood. Many Catholics, multitudes of people, don't really believe it. He is still a Man: His Body is in Heaven. Thankfully, people go to Mass on Christmas, acknowledging His Incarnation nine months before and the infinite power in Him.

​E equals m c squared shows that energy and mass are equivalent and interchangeable, linked by the speed of light, meaning a tiny bit of mass holds immense energy, explaining phenomena from radioactivity to nuclear power and the energy of stars. This principle, from his theory of special relativity, reveals mass is "congealed energy" and forms the foundation for understanding nuclear processes and the universe's energy budget.
Tetrameter
Esolen literary criticism of "The Three Kings" of Longfellow-Stainer-Keevers: Accentual tetrameter is common in popular English ballads, wherein two syllables (think of eighth notes) can substitute for one (think of a quarter note) in any unstressed position, also in which the lead stress may be strong. Coleridge used it in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Reading List).

Tetrahedron
A tetrahedron, an important Catholic symbol I have written about (Math Category), is a 3D shape, a polyhedron with four triangular faces, six edges, and four vertices, essentially a triangular pyramid. A regular tetrahedron, a Platonic solid, has four identical equilateral triangles as faces, while an irregular tetrahedron can have different triangle shapes, but all faces remain triangles.

Third Vocation
Single life
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ChatGPT & Aquinas

1/1/2026

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Q. How many words did Saint Thomas Aquinas write?
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(I already knew the answer and that he had four female secretaries pictured in an engraving republished in the blog.)

​A. We don’t know the exact number of words Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote down, because it would require counting every word in all his surviving texts across Latin, commentaries, disputations, letters, etc. There’s no definitive published total. However, scholars have made well-informed estimates based on the scope of his work:


📘 Scholarly estimates
  • Aquinas is estimated to have written over about 8 million words in his lifetime of theological and philosophical writings.​ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy+1
  • Some secondary sources (not academic editions) even suggest figures up to around 10 million words depending on how works are counted. Answers
  • A major digital research project (Index Thomisticus) indexed over 10 million words from 118 works attributed to him, though that includes much data from concordances and may count repeated occurrences of the same words rather than unique text. Wikipedia

​📊 What this means So, while we can’t give a precise word count, the best scholarly estimate is:

👉Roughly 8 million words written by Thomas Aquinas across all his works. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

If you’re curious about specific works (like Summa Theologiae or Summa contra Gentiles), I can provide approximate word counts for those too!

This creepy thing talks like I do.

Next time, I will make it angry.

​I'm a pink panther in person.


Really, no kidding.
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The Calvine Report

12/23/2025

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US, Scotland, England
video produced on 12/11/2025
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Math
A diamond shape, or rhombus, is a four-sided flat shape (quadrilateral) with all four sides of equal length, often appearing as two triangles joined at their bases, with sharp top/bottom points and angled sides, like a kite or a tilted square. While "diamond" refers to the gemstone's natural form or a common representation, geometrically it's a rhombus, a type of parallelogram, known for its equal sides and opposite equal angles.

Akin
Roman Catholic Jimmy Akin (b. 8/24/1965) is the guy who calculated the date of the Crucifixion, 4/3/33, and that is searchable in my blog or Google AI Overview.​
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Add up the numbers, four, three, thirty-three, in various configurations and see what you uncover.


Google AI Overview
Q. How far is the House of Dun from Calvine?
A. For visitors traveling from Calvine, the journey is approximately 76 miles and takes about 1 hour and 40 minutes by car via the A9 and A90.
​House of Dun, a National Trust for Scotland property, is three miles west of Montrose and within easy reach of Aberdeen, Dundee, and Perth.
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courtesy of tripadvisor.com
William Adam's Georgian house places baroque extravagance in a spectacular natural setting with stunning vistas overlooking Montrose Basin.
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Photo by Thomas Andy Branson
The Usual Swamp Area, Montrose Basin, Angus, Scotland

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Usual_Swamp_Area,_Montrose_Basin,_Angus,_Scotland.jpg​
Google AI Overview
Q. Did Jimmy Akin say anything about 3I/Atlas?
A. Yes, Jimmy Akin has commented on the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, specifically noting its unusual trajectory and nickel-without-iron detection, which led him to discuss its potential (though unlikely) technological origins on his podcast, balancing scientific views with possibilities like demonic influence, always stressing his "neither skeptical nor credulous" stance.

Key points from Jimmy Akin on 3I/ATLAS:
  • Unusual Properties: He highlighted that the object's path aligned unusually well with the ecliptic plane (a 1 in 500 chance) and that its composition showed nickel without iron, unlike typical natural space rocks.
  • Technological Origin Possibility: Akin suggested that these anomalies could point to an artificial source, though he noted this wasn't the primary scientific conclusion.
  • Balanced Approach: In his typical style, Akin explored the "what if" scenarios, including a technological origin, while also considering natural explanations and even the possibility of demonic activity, as discussed in a Catholic World Report article about his approach to mysteries.
  • His Stance: He frames these discussions within his "neither skeptical nor credulous" philosophy, exploring possibilities without immediately dismissing them or accepting them as fact.
In short, he engaged with the mystery of 3I/ATLAS, using it as an example to discuss how to approach unexplained phenomena from both scientific and theological perspectives.
(end of Google assist)
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He is not a scientist. 
  1. Self-Taught Expertise: Akin states that he learned much of his extensive knowledge in theology, philosophy, and canon law on his own. (autodidact)
  2. No Formal University Seal: He highlights that he doesn't have a university vouching for him in the way some scholars do, relying on the accuracy of his work instead.
  3. Background: He is a former Presbyterian who converted to Catholicism.
I know three autodidacts: Alexander Yu, Bill Keevers, and Nicolas Albiani, seeking a masters degree in Nuclear Engineering at ETHZ (Zürich, Switzerland).

I am none of the above, first, relying on my formal education but reeducating myself ever since the fake pandemic occurred, second, being forced to seek Mass and confession elsewhere, and third, finding the help of numerous resources, including Alexander, with whom I worked for almost five years, and Bill most recently.

Finally, the correct terminology is Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and Unidentified Anomalous Submerged Object (UASO).
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comet or visitor

12/16/2025

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Google's Gemini

No, 3I/ATLAS is not an imaginary number like 3𝑖 in math; it's a real, recently discovered interstellar comet, the third ever seen in our Solar System, named for the ATLAS survey that found it. ATLAS is the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, a NASA-funded network of telescopes.

Imaginary numbers are expressed as the sum of a real part and an imaginary part. The concept began with the Greeks, then Italians got involved, Frenchman René Descartes coined the derogatory term "imaginary", and Germans solidified their use.

While some online theories playfully (and scientifically unsoundly) suggested it could be alien tech due to its unusual brightness and behavior, it's confirmed by its comet-like tail and orbit to be a natural visitor from another star system, designated "3I" for "third interstellar".

Maven Spacecraft
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Pierre de Fermat

12/13/2025

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Pierre de Fermat 1601-1665

Fermat was a prominent lay Catholic who made major contributions to mathematics, demonstrating that faith and science weren't mutually exclusive. He lived in a time when the Church played a major role in French society, affecting daily life and intellectual pursuits, and corresponded with Catholic Blaise Pascal, working together on probability.


The ABC Conjecture was first proposed by French mathematicians David Masser (in 1985) and Joseph Oesterlé (in 1988), and is also known as the Oesterlé–Masser conjecture, dealing with the relationship between the prime factors of three integers.


Number Theory
​12/10/2025
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Napoleon's Theorem

12/11/2025

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Quora
Check out Aditi Bonthu, math kid
What math question stumped you?
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Trying to prove Napolean’s Theorem. [sic]


Google AI Overview
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You're referring to Napoleon's Theorem, a geometry theorem stating that if you construct equilateral triangles on each side of any triangle (outward or inward), the centers of these new triangles will always form another equilateral triangle, known as the Napoleon Triangle. While attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte [good part], there's no proof he discovered [uncovered] it, but he was interested in mathematics and established institutions that fostered its study.

I correct Google and myself about the same number of times.

Triangles, isosceles or equilateral, pyramids, and tetrahedrons have huge significance in the Catholic faith and the reason I have written about the shapes and borrowed from others. Search math.
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Chopin geometry

11/30/2025

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written 1833-1836, published in 1837, dedicated to Countess d'Appony
It almost looks like the work of a navigator or surveyor.
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Gemini summarized: King Zog I of Albania married Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony, Hungary, in 1838. The well-known "Apponyi" (or Chinese Bouquet) design in Herend porcelain is named after the family.
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Herend Chinese Bouquet Dinner Plate - Green (haleyreynoldshome.com)
Visit the Piano Category.

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Tetration

11/16/2025

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subscribere
Any number x tetrated to some value y is equivalent to x exponentiated by itself y number of times; therefore, two tetrated by three would be equivalent to two squared, squared, or 16.

³2 = ? Answer the question.
  • 10/8/2023 — ³2 = ? The correct answer is 16. It's a tetration. It means 2^2^2 which means 2^(2^2) = 2^4 = 16.
  • Quanta Magazine: If the right subscript is index, the right superscript is exponent.
  • Quora: Calculating the nth super-root when n is greater than 2?
  • 10/10/2019 — Engineering/Computer Science Computer Science questions and answers: Tetration is the mathematical operation of repeated numbers...Chegg
  • 8/6/2019 — Tetration (literally "4th operator iteration") is iterated exponentiation, much like how exponents are iterated. Tetration is the mathematical operation of repeated numbers...Mathematics Stack Exchange
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tetration complex color

  • Sacred Geometry and the tetrahedron: The star tetrahedron is a 3D shape formed by two interpenetrating tetrahedrons. Catholic art has depicted the four living creatures from Ezechiel's vision (the "Tetramorph") surrounding God's throne. The pall covering the chalice is a tetrahedron.
  • The ancient Pythagorean tetractys: The tetractys, a triangular figure of 10 points, was a sacred symbol for Pythagoras and represented concepts like the four seasons (Fr. Antonio Vivaldi) and planetary motion. You have 10 fingers and 10 toes, and they roughly form triangular shapes.
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Euler's Ballistics

11/14/2025

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languages: English/French/Latin (and German)
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Math & God

11/7/2025

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11/5/2025
https://stephencmeyer.org/

Plato​
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Plato's central belief is that true reality exists in an unchanging, perfect world of forms or ideas, while the physical world is an imperfect, changeable copy. Platonists believe that abstract concepts like beauty, justice, and even "dogginess" are the true realities and that the physical world is less real. Having evolved into different forms, such as Neoplatonism, the philosophy has influenced fields like mathematics and science.

​I prefer the word "uncovered".

The interviewer is a loon.
Google AI Overview
Q. Who wrote about first principles?
A. The first answer Google gave was Herbert Spencer's First Principles.

However, Saint Thomas Aquinas preceded him.

Google AI Overview
I combined two answers.


Thomas Aquinas
Theoretical reason
  • Foundation of knowledge: Aquinas believed that certain, true knowledge requires a foundation in undeniable first principles that cannot be demonstrated through other means. First principles are the fundamental, self-evident truths from which all other knowledge is derived.
  • Law of Non-Contradiction: He wrote that a thing cannot be both itself and its opposite at the same time (e.g., a ball cannot be both red and not red simultaneously), and about the principle of identity ("being is being") and the principle of the excluded middle as key first principles.
  • Law of Identity: A thing is identical with itself.
  • Acquisition: These principles are not innate but are grasped as soon as the intellect understands the nature of the terms, which ultimately stems from sense knowledge and the apprehension of universal natures.
  • Source of certainty: These principles are not discovered through demonstration but are known immediately through an intellectual understanding, which Aquinas considered a habit of mind.
  • Moral principle: He also identified a foundational principle in moral philosophy, that is, "Good is to be done, and evil is to be avoided."

​Practical reason 
  • Foundation for morality: For Aquinas, the first principle of practical reason is the most basic moral precept, which is discoverable through conscience and serves as the starting point for all ethical considerations.
  • Do good, avoid evil: The primary command is that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided.
  • Source of moral knowledge: This principle directs one to act in accordance with his understanding of what is good and bad, which is evaluated by comparing an action with human nature.
  • Natural Law: This first principle is the foundation of natural law, which is understood to be a set of natural and moral laws that are derived from God and known through reason and conscience.​
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conditional statement

10/23/2025

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If
2 + 2 = 8
3 + 3 = 18
4 + 4 = 32
Then
5 + 5 = ___

Answer
If
2 + 2 = 4 × 2 = 8
3 + 3 = 6 × 3 = 18
4 + 4 = 8 × 4 = 32
Then
5 + 5 = 10 × 5 = 50
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