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Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Today's Bits
editor in chief Patrick Antonio | The New Yoke Times | Sanford FL 32773



Speed of Light Motorcycle
Warning to the pedantics that might gag. This thought experiment breaks the special law.
Patrick Antonio
1 min read


Answers at a Distance
The Generational Entanglement of Questions... And Answers.
Patrick Antonio
2 min read


Space is a Visual Time Machine
Caution, stargazing may cause local time travel.
Patrick Antonio
1 min read


Free Will (Within a Cone of Error)
I think I will go with... I'll try both.
Patrick Antonio
2 min read


The Law of Room Temperature | Entropy
And then Entropy begged, "Come on. Let's just add ourselves together. Please. Then we could divide us by two. Come on. Please? Let's just average."
Patrick Antonio
1 min read


The Entropy vs. Formation Constant | Zero-Sum Mutual Creative Destruction
From its Big Bang to its Heat Death, the weight of the Universe remains the same.
Patrick Antonio
1 min read


Heavy Shit
If Earth collapsed down to black hole status, It's new size would equal a small glass playing marble that has, The same mass as, And still weighs the same weight that Earth now is, A marble more heavy than a diamond is dense. To pulverize and shrink Earth down to such a degree, Every last bit of space that's still empty, Must be wrung out like water from a sponge, Every last bit of space that's still empty, A complete and full expunge - From between every branch of every tree
Patrick Antonio
1 min read




What Does Smoke Weigh?
A dazed & confused inquiry into The Law of Conservation of Mass.
Patrick Antonio
1 min read


Eternal Light (relatively speaking)
Our big bright sun is located eight light-minutes away, It hides from us at the end of each day. Each morning returning, Orange and burning. That faithful fiery ball of lava, Risin’ from the horizon like a fresh cup of java. The sun’s light hitting your face, Just spent eight minutes racing through space. Like the crack of the bat at the ballpark that you see, but don’t hear, till a split moment later, But the sunlight’s time-delay is eight minutes greater. If the sun turned
Patrick Antonio
1 min read


POV - from the Surface of Rutherford's Electron
Scaling Recurring Patterns. All made up of self-similar bit-parts. All the while also playing a self-similar bit-part inside of something larger.
Patrick Antonio
1 min read


Memories and Prediction
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson— Brains are prediction machines. Cells are too, elementarily. Not prediction machines that predict the future magically. But forecast calculators. Trying to calculate (guess, anticipate) future factors. And potential probabilities. Based on known priors and histories (memories). Whose lives depend
Patrick Antonio
3 min read


Prescription for Alcoholics
"Paradoxical causal loops are the ultimate mind-bending concept of systems thinking, where the cause becomes the effect and the effect becomes the cause." - Donella Meadows “Take your medicine!” was a nagging command we all hated as kids. But for alcoholics this sounds like the world’s nicest invitation. The only proven *medication known to give instant relief from the ever-present and nagging symptoms of alcoholism is alcohol. A catch-22 of potentially deadly proportions. A
Patrick Antonio
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Nicene Creed (scientific translation)
We believe in one Universe, the Atoms, they’re all mighty, the makeup of matter and Earth, and of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one reward, Evolution, the only Sum of Atoms, eternally begotten of the Elements, Atoms from Atoms, Light from Light, true Atoms from true Atoms, begotten, not made, one in being with the Elements Through elements all things were made. For us men and for our salvation, elements came down fr
Patrick Antonio
1 min read


Same-ish on all Orders of Magnitude
From the tiniest most microscopic. To the hugest most astronomic.
Patrick Antonio
3 min read



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