19/5/25 – 25/5/25 – Universe, Trump & Complete Unknown

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world.

Scientists in a race to discover why our Universe exists
Article at BBC News

← A vast cavern in South Dakota shielded from the outside world will house sensitive equipment to detect tiny changes in sub-atomic particles

Scientists are searching for the answer to one of science’s biggest questions: why does our Universe exist?

I added the following information to my Ankidroid as a result of this BBC article:

What came into existence from the Universe’s creation, but cannot be explained. What should have theoretically occurred?

Matter – from which stars, planets and everything around us (including us) are made – and in equal amounts antimatter – matters’ exact opposite. Theoretically they should have cancelled each other out and left nothing except a big burst of energy. And yet, here we – as matter – are.

Explain the Dune particle detector (created to determine how we are here as ‘matter’):
a. what it stands for b. location c. process d. objective

a. Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (Dune),
b. 1,500 metre below surface in South Dakota,
c. Firing Neutrinos and anti Neutrinos particles from Illinois 800 miles away. These particles change ever so slightly as they travel, and
d. Detect if changes are different for the two particles. If they are different it could tell them why matter and anti matter don’t cancel each out.

Ben Shapiro: I voted Trump. Here’s what I regret
Video Interview at Unherd

This was the first time Ben Shapiro and Freddy Sayers appeared together and it sure didn’t disappoint. It’s a wide-ranging conversation and they discuss what Trump has got right – and wrong – in his current tenure, Shapiro’s public criticisms of the president, and his feud with Tucker Carlson amongst other topics.

Like how Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying’s Darkhorse podcast was a beacon of sanity for me during the craziness of the Pandemic and the phenomenon of Mass Formation, I have found both Sayers (Unherd more broadly) and Shapiro, as alternative news outlets, beacons of reasoning in the Post-Pandemic and nascent A.I. age.

I couldn’t fault here – Shapiro’s surgeon-like dissection of Trump’s incumbency so far (as well as everything else he discussed), and I’m not even a conservative per se. In fact here are my political compass test results (2019), which is not to insinuate they are definitive or that my world-view hasn’t shifted radically since the onset of the following:
– Pandemic,
– Corporate Stakeholdership (ie The Great Reset orchestrated by the World Economic Forum), and
– The Woke Movement.

My favourite part of this interview came towards the end (at 48:20 to be exact) where Shapiro used the analogy of Plumbers to Politicians. It made me yelp with laughter and still makes me chuckle when I recall it. He said:

‘My overall perspective on every politician is that politicians are plumbers. If the politician is overall fixing the toilet I’ll be generally happy and if the plumber is actually throwing cherry-bombs down the toilet then I will be upset. And that remains true regardless of who the President is.’

A Complete Unknown | Bob Dylan and the Biopic Formula
Video movie review by Elliot Roberts

So is ‘A Complete Unknown’ just another formulaic music biopic or does it offer something more? And how does it compare to Todd Hayne’s more cerebral 2007 Dylan biopic ‘I’m Not There’?

You may all be done and dusted with the Complete Unknown movie craze – as well as the aftermath and analysis phase – but I wouldn’t be posting this video here unless I thought it was well worth it. Or, not to put too fine a point on it, head and shoulders above the rest.

I shared my own thoughts on Complete Unknown in a previous News on the March segment, where I also highlighted an engaging written review over at Recliner Notes. But it would be entirely remiss of me to endeth the trilogy of the ultimate Complete Unknown opinion without including Elliot Roberts’ expert breakdown of the film. Such is the intricate level of detail and nuanced analysis, it left me gasping in appreciation of the knowledge, effort, and passion Roberts poured into it. In my humble estimation, it’s the definitive review I’ve seen so far on the biopic.

Elliot Roberts is an Australian YouTuber and actor who makes commentary videos on music and film, though his videos on The Beatles and its members have became his most well-known in his repertoire.

That is all. Thank you for reading.