Science reports another disastrous week for Trump and his demolition contractor Elon Musk. US cuts funding for IPCC climate impact report
In recent days, there have been upheavals in the American science system that have caused deep shock among the scientific community – from the sudden disappearance of the head of the National Science Foundation from the public stage, through a wide-ranging wave of layoffs that affected hundreds of experimental employees at institutions such as the NIH, to surprising moves to bring back essential employees at the USDA and FDA. All this, while the "human resource efficiency" policy adopted by the administration raises serious questions about management, transparency, and trust, and its devastating effects on the stability of research and innovation in the country. These events present a turbulent picture of a conflict between crucial administrative decisions and the need to maintain the values of professionalism and support for the scientific community, as scientists are forced to deal with a difficult economic reality and professional uncertainty in parallel with national and international challenges.
The website of the journal Science was dedicated to the issues of harming science, through sowing chaos and mass layoffs in all scientific agencies.
One of the news items dealt with mass layoffs at the National Science Foundation, NSF, and more.
Saththoman Panchanathan, head of the National Science Foundation (NSF), has canceled all of his public appearances since President Trump took office on January 20. On February 18, the foundation, which funds basic science research in the United States and abroad, laid off about 10% of its 1700-strong staff with immediate effect. The layoffs, which were carried out without an official announcement or a formal update from management, led to sharp criticism from veteran employees, who saw it as a sign of poor management and a lack of concern for employee morale. “Punch is simply absent – and it happens every time something happens,” one veteran executive wrote to the editorial board, referring to it as a serious management failure. The foundation manages a budget of about $9 billion a year.
The reports also add that since January 25, there has been no press release from the NSF Communications Department regarding research or technical updates, with the last release referring to events prior to the new administration taking office. Employees who continued to work at the office expressed deep frustration, saying that “management choosing to hide at a time when the organization is facing adversity is unacceptable.”
Research reviewer who was fired before he started working
Over the past week, the personal story of Martin Bash, the scientist who moved from a professorship to a position as a scientific reviewer at the NIH, has become a symbol of the harsh reality faced by workers in the American public system. Bash, who moved to the United States from Argentina 27 years ago, worked for many years in academic laboratories - a field in which he invested heavily in research on hereditary hearing disorders. But when he struggled to obtain funding from traditional funding institutions, he decided to move to a position at the NIH with the aim of directly influencing the field of research and influencing scientific decision-making processes.
Martin Bash's story symbolizes the threat to the American scientific community - when young people with promising careers find themselves torn between professional aspirations and deceptive political and economic realities. The decision to fire employees on probation raises questions about the nature of performance evaluation and hiring practices that are often based on non-transparent criteria.
Despite the difficulties, Martin notes that he does not intend to “lie down and give up” – instead, he plans to take legal action if he leaves the situation without a satisfactory solution. “It is difficult, but I have to keep working, do what is necessary to not give up,” Martin said after receiving initial legal advice. His story is drawing a lot of sympathy from his colleagues in the profession, many of whom are preparing to organize and take joint action in order to protect their rights and bring about a change in the structure of the appointment and dismissal system in research institutions.
Naa Kothari, a plant breeder and expert biologist who was appointed to head the USDA’s National Gene Bank Management Program, was fired and reinstated under industry pressure. Kothari, who was selected for the position based on extensive industry and research experience, suffered a layoff decision that was handed to her on February 13 as part of a layoff process that included dozens of probationary employees.
USDA has established gene banks that hold over 600,000 plant species, which are a vital source of genetic diversity and the development of resistant varieties. In order to streamline the management of the bank and maximize the benefit of genomic information, plant breeder Nae Kothari was selected, who was hired in October 2024 with extensive experience in the private and academic sectors. As part of a broad process of staff cuts, Kothari’s work was terminated on February 13, along with about 30 employees – about 10% of the bank’s staff – and a number of other positions were also frozen. This move, which was introduced as part of a government department’s “human resource efficiency” under the influence of Elon Musk, drew sharp criticism from leaders in the field of agricultural research, who noted the importance of high-quality and focused management of the bank. While industry and academic groups have demanded the reinstatement of workers and the reopening of the reservoir, recent reports indicate that Kothari has been reinstated, but it is not yet clear whether the remaining laid-off workers have been reinstated.
Another article deals with NASA's cessation of funding for international climate research:
Representatives from countries around the world gathered in Hangzhou, China, this week to plan the next major international climate assessment — but without the United States. Late last week, President Donald Trump’s administration refused to allow delegates to travel to the meeting and cut a contract for technical support for the Seventh Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The decision, first reported by Axios, is the first time the administration has directed its policy toward international climate science.
The United States has long been a leader in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which for decades has brought together unpaid volunteer scientists to produce influential reports every seven years or so. NASA chief scientist Catherine Calvin was set to co-chair the IPCC’s third working group, which focuses on mitigating climate change, as part of the seventh assessment, which will be held near the end of the decade. Former President Joe Biden’s administration committed about $7 million to a technical support unit (TSU), a small team that would help create graphics and websites, run meetings, and edit the group’s report.
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Geometric circle and the concept of curvature
A geometric circle is a closed circular line drawn with the help of compasses.
A closed circular line forms a geometric shape, called a circle.
There are infinitely many closed circular lines, whose length varies from zero mm
To infinity mm. These closed circular lines are not similar to each other, because each length of a closed circular line has a different curvature.
The shorter a closed circular line, the greater its curvature.
The longer a closed circular line, the smaller its curvature.
The curvature of a closed circular line is represented by its pi number.
Pi number of a closed circular line with infinite diameter mm 3.14
Pi number of a closed circular line with a length of zero mm, 3.16
For each millimeter diameter of a closed circular line, between zero and infinity mm, there is a specific pi number. In the Nefer formula, we write the millimeter diameter of a closed circular line (from 0.001 mm and above),
And the formula provides the specific PI value of the selected millimeter diameter.
Pi of the selected diameter D is equal to 3.1416 + (root of 0.0000003 divided by the diameter D in millimeters
The concept of curvature rules out the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, which attempted to replace a circular or curved line with tiny segments of a straight line.
Such a replacement ignores the concept of curvature and the phenomenon of variable pi, and therefore Newton and Leibniz's calculus
It is not accurate, and there is no point in using it.
There is no doubt that mathematics has lost much of its false prestige, and it is no longer the queen of the sciences - physics is the queen of the sciences and it asks physical reality questions in the language of experimentation, and this reality answers with a tangible occurrence of true - false.
In an experiment with the circumference measuring device, the following question was asked:
Is the ratio of the diameters of two circles of different sizes
Equal or not equal to the ratio of their perimeters
And the device's answer was –
The ratio of diameters is slightly greater than the ratio of circumferences.
This answer proves the existence of pi, which varies according to the millimeter diameter of a closed circular line.
This answer rejects the idea that pi is constant in all circles, an idea that was accepted by mathematicians from the time of Archimedes until the advent of the circumference experiment.
The scope experiment moved the circuits into the physical realm.
Circuits belong to physics and measurements,
And they do not belong to mathematics and calculations.
So far, part of the neural revolution has been presented, which appears extensively in the neural books, published by Niv.
Geometric circle
A geometric circle is a closed circular line drawn with a compass.
A closed circular line forms a geometric shape, called a circle.
There are infinitely many closed circular lines, whose length varies from zero mm
To infinity mm. These closed circular lines are not similar to each other, because each length of a closed circular line has a different curvature.
The shorter a closed circular line, the greater its curvature.
The longer a closed circular line, the smaller its curvature.
The curvature of a closed circular line is represented by its pi number.
Pi number of a closed circular line of infinite length mm 3.14
Pi number of a closed circular line with a length of zero mm, 3.16
For every millimeter length of a closed circular line, there is a private pi number.
In the Nebraska formula, we record the diameter D of a selected circle (from 0.001 mm and above),
And the formula provides the specific PI value of the selected circuit.
The concept of curvature rules out the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, which attempted to replace a circular or curved line with tiny segments of a straight line.
Such a replacement ignores the concept of curvature and the phenomenon of variable pi, and therefore Newton and Leibniz's calculus is invalidated.
There is no doubt that mathematics has lost much of its false prestige, and is no longer the queen of the sciences.
The queen of sciences is physics, which asks physical reality questions in the language of experiments, and this reality answers with actual occurrences that are interpreted as true or false.
In an experiment with the circumference measuring device, the following question was asked:
Is the ratio of the diameters of two circles of different sizes equal?
To the ratio of their circumferences
And the device's answer was –
The ratio of diameters is slightly greater than the ratio of circumferences.
This answer proves the existence of the variable pi.
So far, part of the neural revolution has been presented, which appears extensively in the neural books, published by Niv.
The importance of science to humanity cannot be erased.
The scientist must move forward.
How the mathematics that tried to crack the secret of circles collapsed.
The collapse began in the time of Archimedes, and has continued to this day.
This ongoing collapse stemmed from the question…what is a circle? And mathematicians gave a strange answer of a collection of points that are a fixed distance from a given point. …..
And the correct answer is this.
A circle is a geometric shape, formed by a quantity of length of a closed circular line, containing a quantity of area.
A closed circular line is easily created using compasses.
There are infinitely many closed circular lines, whose length varies from zero mm
To infinity mm. These closed circular lines are not similar to each other, because each length of a closed circular line has a different curvature.
The shorter a closed circular line, the greater its curvature.
The longer a closed circular line, the smaller its curvature.
The curvature of a closed circular line is represented by its pi number.
Pi number of a closed circular line of infinite length mm 3.14
Pi number of a closed circular line with a length of zero mm, 3.16
For every millimeter length of a closed circular line, there is a private pi number.
The formula for private pi appears in the books of the Naber published by Niv.
The concept of curvature does not allow mathematics to deal with closed circular lines, and is left to deal with straight line segments,
Using the Pythagorean theorem.
The concept of curvature rules out the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, which attempted to replace a circular or curved line with tiny segments of a straight line.
Such a replacement ignores the concept of curvature and the phenomenon of variable pi, and therefore Newton and Leibniz's calculus is invalidated.
There is no doubt that mathematics has lost much of its false prestige, and is no longer the queen of the sciences.
Mathematics is a simple language of abstract quantities, whose name is numbers. One, two, three, four, etc.
The queen of sciences is physics, which asks physical reality questions in the language of experiments, and this reality answers with an actual occurrence that is interpreted as true or false.
In an experiment with the circumference measuring device, the following question was asked:
Is the ratio of the diameters of two circles (large and small) equal?
To the ratio of their circumferences
And the device's answer was –
The ratio of diameters is slightly greater than the ratio of circumferences.
This answer proves the existence of the variable pi.
So far, part of the neural revolution has been presented, which appears extensively in the neural books, published by Niv.
The wise are all those who brought the wealth to the United States that you take for granted.
When did mathematics stop dealing with circles?
My answer is in the article The Sad Story of Mathematicians Who Are Unwilling to Perform Measurement, and I will add a brief explanation.
The precise definition of circles is closed circular lines,
There are an infinite number of closed circular lines, from a diameter of zero mm to a diameter of infinite mm. These circular lines are not similar, because each closed circular line has a different curvature.
The shorter a closed circular line, the greater its curvature.
Hence the idea of "variable pi" according to the millimeter diameter of a closed circular line. The shorter the closed circular line, the greater its pi number, the longer the closed circular line, the smaller its pi number, the range of variation of pi, between 3.14 and 3.16
The new definition of circles leaves mathematics incapable of dealing with closed circular lines, and is left with the task of
In straight line segments, using the Pythagorean theorem.
This new definition invalidates the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, which attempted to replace a circular or curved line with tiny segments of a straight line.
Such a replacement ignores the concept of curvature and the phenomenon of variable pi, and therefore Newton and Leibniz's calculus is invalidated.
There is no doubt that mathematics has lost much of its false prestige, and it is no longer the queen of the sciences - but rather a simple language of abstract quantities, whose names are numbers.
The queen of sciences is physics, which asks physical reality questions in the language of experiments, and this reality answers with an actual occurrence that is interpreted as true or false.
So far, part of the neural revolution has been presented, which appears extensively in the neural books, published by Niv.
A. Asbar
What happened? Did they move your cheese?
As an American taxpayer, it's time for a thorough overhaul.
A bunch of whiners and freeloaders
There's no need to despair, you have to keep going.
We must learn from Galilei that he opened the way, even though the church stood in his way.
I've been trying to promote the idea of a variable pi for 20 years, and all the mathematicians are against me.
Here is a real example
The sad story of lazy mathematicians who are unwilling to measure
A curious student drew two circles of different sizes for mathematicians and asked them.
What is the ratio of the lengths of the straight lines that appear on the diameters of the circles?
This is a question for physicists, the mathematicians answered. They will measure the length of the diameters of circles with a ruler, but we mathematicians will never measure.
Measuring is an imprecise occupation of simple craftsmen, and we are engaged in very precise calculations, which require reason, logic, imagination, and superior mental activity from the person.
Among the mathematicians was a rebellious mathematician who did not accept conventions, and he took a ruler and measured the lengths of the straight lines of the diameters of the circles.
The measurement results were approximately 3 cm and approximately 5 cm, and from these results he obtained the inaccurate ratio number 1.6666.
And the lazy mathematicians who despise and shy away from measurement, to this day, do not know how to obtain the ratio number that links the length of a toothpick to the length of a pencil.
They also don't know how to obtain the ratio number that connects the lengths of the circumferences of the two circles - whose straight lines of diameters are 3 and 5 cm.
And since lazy mathematicians only talk and don't measure, they decided
(For reasons of laziness and convenience) that the ratio between the lengths of the circumferences of two circles of different sizes is exactly equal to the ratio between the lengths of the straight lines of their diameters.
This tragic decision delayed the development of geometry for 2000 years,
The appropriate name for it: The Mathematicians' Terrible Decision
In 2017, a very strange mathematician appeared who also really liked to measure.
This mathematician built himself a measuring device (called a circumference) that he clearly determined.
The ratio number that relates the lengths of the diameters of circles of different sizes
,
From the ratio number linking the lengths of the circular lines of these circles.
Experiment is the final arbiter in science, and its ruling must be accepted.
An experiment cannot determine perfect equality, but it can determine inequality.
The result of a tiny inequality in measurement – must be accepted as correct.
A result of equality in measurement is never accepted.
The fixed circumference – the ratio of the diameters (slightly larger) to the ratio of the circumferences
From this result comes the idea of a variable pi
The mathematicians' terrible decision determined that the ratio of the straight lengths of the diameters of circles is exactly equal to the ratio of the lengths of their circular lines.
This led to the erroneous idea of a constant pi that delayed the development of geometry for thousands of years.
A. Asbar
As someone who has spent quite a bit of time in the US and spoken to ordinary people, they are unable to grasp the importance of science. This is because the US education system is one of the worst in the Western world, and in fact, to maintain the scientific advantage, universities are based mainly on foreigners.
They decided to classify every smart person as a leftist and dismiss all the schmaltz out of a sense of victory. In the next pandemic, they will die at a rate similar to that of a third world country. The only problem is that this affects the whole world because since the end of World War II, most of the outstanding basic science has been done in the US. It's not for nothing that Europe invests heavily in advancing science (at least until the populists take over there too).
There is an excellent example of this. In the 1970s, the Chinese authorities carried out massive purges of universities and other institutions based on excellence, taking the best researchers (those who were not tortured to death) to work in the villages. Of course, the results were visible in China's economy for decades, until the mid-2000s, when it built universities at a dizzying pace, where Chinese who had previously gone to study in the United States taught.
This is just the beginning of the destruction and chaos that the Trump administration will cause to the US and to human society as a whole. It is strange that this type of destructive event would happen in 2025 in an organized country like the US, but this is the reality and we will have to learn to cope and rebuild.