Feature Videos:
Gauss and the Physical Tensor
This feature video presents Lyndon LaRouche's concept of the physical tensor, an essential aspect of what he has established as a science of physical economy. This concept challenges the underlying problems of belief in sense perception as reality that pervades modern society, by posing the idea of the physical tensor as a transformation which occurs between mental images. This latter quality of thinking is what LaRouche has defined as necessary for the long-term successful survival of the human species in accomplishing a Moon-Mars science driver mission for mankind. The most apt case study of the physical tensor, as repeatedly indicated by LaRouche, is German physicist Karl Gauss's method for determining the orbit of the asteroid Ceres, in 1801. To approach the concept of the physical tensor as illustrated in Gauss's case, you will be familiarized with the important precedents in astronomy: man's early mappings of the celestial sphere, and Johannes Kepler's creation of a new astronomy, based upon his idea of a solar driven system.
From the Moon to Mars: The New Economics, Part II
Part two of the New Economics deals with fusion-powered spaceflight as an integral part of national economic planning, by examining 1.) The measurement of physical-economic value and the notion of physical profit, 2.) The case of the 1960 Apollo Project as a physical-economic science driver for the United States, and 3.) The frontier questions of science that will represent both the impetus for, as well as the fruits of, a fusion-powered Moon-Mars program, especially in the area of biology and the relationship of electromagnetic radiation to living processes. Watch this, and you'll never again believe the lie that "space travel costs too much." Also, see Part I.
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Sky Shields on Kesha Rogers’ Victory and Mars Colonization
The recent election victory of Kesha Rogers in Texas's 22nd congressional district represents a turning point in world history. The American voters have demonstrated their refusal to accept the policy of physical-economic austerity which Obama and his controllers have sought to impose through unconstitutional bank bailouts, a murderous health-care policy, and general inaction on the crucial issues of the existential crisis which now faces the American population and the world. Most notably, they have refused to accept Obama's recent, treasonous decision to scrap the last vestiges of our nation's manned presence in space. They have voted, instead, for a future — a future organized around the intensive physical economic progress that can only be brought about by the scientific advancements connected with an expansion of Man's presence in space. (more)
Basement Roundtable • February, 2010
A discussion among Cody Jones, Sky Shields, and Phil Rubenstein.
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LaRouche Statements
LaRouche: Begin Now on a Mission to Mars
First of all, you have to re-educate people in economics, because most of our economists don't understand how to run an economy. That's why they call them economists. I have some good friends who are economists, but they are not of this evil type, not the Wall Street type.
But the problem here is that people don't understand the space program. Now, there is a long-term human reason for the space program. One, is simply because it's necessary to do that. We can not sit on one planet, like prisoners on the planet, and wait for the catastrophes that are likely to happen to this planet to occur. Now, all of that is in the distant future. But sometimes you've to think about the distant future.
Secondly, in order to maintain an economy, you must have a high rate of technological and related progress, scientific and technological progress. To do that you need a driver program. Since the 1920s, the indicated driver program—which was started actually in Germany, but other people were involved...
LaRouche: Powered Human Flight to Mars Orbit
July 25, 2009
In the “Basement Program” the time has come to return to one of my favorite topics from the 1980s work of the Fusion Energy Foundation: the subject of powered manned flight, by means of successive phases of acceleration and deceleration between our moon and the lunar orbit of Mars, a subject which I brought up in basement discussions earlier today.
Back during the 1970s and 1980s, I emphasized that the delayed priority of development of "crash programs" for controlled thermonuclear fusion, showed a kind of indifference to the role of fusion power in manned flight within the Solar system (in particular), and also in dealing with the role of power sources of qualitatively higher energy-flux densities for human life in general.
Among the presently visible advantages accessed from the vantage-point of the accumulated developments in the Riemannian physics of Albert Einstein and Academician V. I. Vernadsky, is that the mere study of manned flight and habitation in the nearby interplanetary domain, can be approached more advantageously from the vantage-point of my emphasis on...
