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Fumfer Physics 21: Cosmic Obliteration, Time, and the Faintest Photon
In this thought-provoking exchange, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner explore whether the universe could suddenly vanish—an instantaneous obliteration consistent with certain relativistic and quantum-mechanical models. Rosner compares such an event to the physical annihilation of information in a brain destroyed in milliseconds, extending the metaphor to cosmic scales. The conversation delves into the idea of localized collapses, reversals of time, and Frank Tipler’s controversial “resurrection” cosmology. It concludes with speculation on whether photons can fade into nonexistence through infinite redshift, raising questions about how the universe tracks—or forgets—its most fundamental information.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen4 months ago in Interview
Organized Money Podcast
Let’s begin our review of Organized Money with its August 5th episode about “The Coup at the Antitrust Division.” In both Trump Administrations, transparency and “draining the swamp” were touchstones of their governmental philosophy. Someone must have forgotten to tell Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice because journalist Sohrab Ahmari broke a story titled The Antitrust War Inside MAGA: Powerful Lobbyists Are Battling Populist Reformers. In it, he reported that the recent $14 billion deal in which Hewlett-Packard acquired its competitor, Juniper Networks, was quietly shepherded along with help from the Justice Department, complete with martini-sipping backroom deals. Two attorneys within the department who objected to the shady procedural maneuvers were reportedly fired.
By Frank Racioppi4 months ago in Interview
How Inbound AI SDR Transforms Every Visitor's Journey for SaaS Companies
Every SaaS founder knows the pain. You drive thousands of visitors to your website. They browse your pages. They leave without converting. Your sales team sits idle while potential customers slip through the cracks. Information overload leaves visitors lost in complex product details. High bounce rates persist despite heavy traffic because there's no scalable way to engage each visitor. Lead leakage becomes a daily reality as you struggle to filter, enrich, and route top prospects. Traditional sales tools don't adapt to your sales motion. AI tools lack deep CRM and automation connections. You can't see how AI influences your pipeline in real time. Hao Sheng built expertise.ai to solve these exact problems. His Inbound AI SDR platform transforms every visitor's journey with hyper-personalized microsites that engage, qualify, and enrich leads in real time. The platform asks smart, targeted questions using your exact sales playbook. It gathers and enriches visitor profiles with actionable firmographics and behavior insights. Then it instantly connects top prospects to the right sales reps through seamless routing or scheduled meetings.
By Oliver Jones Jr.4 months ago in Interview
Enzo Zelocchi and the Power of Self-Made Success
In a world where fame is often handed out to those with the right connections, Enzo Zelocchi stands as a rare example of what it means to build something entirely on your own. Hollywood actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur—Zelocchi wears many hats. But more than his titles, it's his journey that makes him stand out.
By Brian Smith4 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 20: Time, Black Holes, and 3D Space
Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner examine Information Cosmology (IC) as an alternative lens on gravity, time, and dimensionality. IC treats the universe as an information processor: no true event horizons, no infinite-density singularities—only quantum limits on compressibility and information flow. Time slows near collapsed matter yet remains dynamic at the center. Extra dimensions are informationally expensive, so reality stabilizes to three after early fuzzy epochs. Redshift reflects informational segregation; correlated histories cluster locally. Photons exemplify dimensionless behavior until interactions set geometry. A universal clock emerges from global information updates, roughly aligning subjective brain time with overall objective cosmic ticks.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen4 months ago in Interview
How Enzo Zelocchi Turned Ambition Into a $1.5 Billion Fortune
In the world of entertainment, fame often overshadows fortune. For Enzo Zelocchi, however, success has never been about mere recognition—it’s about crafting a legacy that merges creativity with strategy, passion with precision. Today, with a reported net worth of $1.5 billion, Zelocchi stands as a modern example of how ambition, when paired with foresight, can translate into real, measurable wealth.
By Brian Smith4 months ago in Interview
Ajay Hinduja on Building Blocks of Progress: Foundational Litracy
Basic literacy, or the skill to read, write and do simple arithmetic efficiently is not only a combination of personal competences but it is the foundation on which a successful and fair society will be constructed. It is the key to unlocking any other learning and a strong mechanism of community and societal improvement. The absence of this core competence would exclude people and communities out of opportunities, making all people less progressive. Ajay Hinduja, the son of Prakash Hinduja (Chairman of the Hinduja Group, Europe) also points out that literacy and numeracy are not only academic competencies and also are key life skills.
By Geoff Lyon4 months ago in Interview
Nasubi. 15 months in a small room, surviving only on prizes won from lotteries.. Content Warning.
Tomoaki Hamatsu is a Japanese comedian better known by his stage name Nasubi (which means “eggplant” in Japanese). In the show, his private parts were censored with an eggplant emoji. Since his face was always covered by this symbol, viewers began to call him simply “Nasubi” -the Eggplant.
By Dmitri Solovov4 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 19: Galactic Filaments, Gravitational Waves
In Fumfer Physics, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner explore the physics of gravitational wells, rotational asymmetry, and the nature of galactic filaments. They discuss how irregularly rotating massive objects emit gravitational waves—steady hums or periodic pulses—and how galaxies align along cosmic filaments forming the universe’s vast web. Rosner draws a bold analogy between these cosmic structures and the human brain’s associative networks: both systems light up, store, and transmit information. Their dialogue connects astrophysics, consciousness, and cosmic evolution, suggesting that the universe itself might operate through mechanisms of activation, dormancy, and renewal across billions of years.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen4 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 18: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and the Engineering of Quantum Reality
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their pioneering work on macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in electrical circuits. Their achievement bridges theory and engineering by revealing quantum behavior in large, engineered systems—once thought confined to atomic scales. This experimental triumph laid groundwork for quantum computing, where maintaining fragile quantum states enables calculations beyond classical limits. Their work embodies the precision and universality of quantum mechanics, a cornerstone of modern physics and technology, reaffirming its supremacy in explaining nature’s smallest and now, surprisingly, larger scales.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen4 months ago in Interview
Chatting With Naomi Grossman
Con Corner was fortunate enough to cross paths with Naomi Grossman at this year's Long Beach Comic Con and follow-up with a chat. Most notably known for the role of Pepper across multiple American Horror Story seasons she also just recently starred in HIM (directed by Justin Tipping and produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions) as Marjorie, a role which we also got to talk a little about.
By Con Corner Media4 months ago in Interview
