Remarks by Michael Kratsios, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the Endless Frontiers Retreat: “Our Technologies Permit Us to Manipulate Time and Space”
April 17th, 2025Hmm.
Transcript below.
Via: The White House:
Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.
Most of his speech was following the classical Chinese approach to diplomacy… don’t threaten directly, imply serious consequences. My guess is that the Chinese know something about our secret programs and possibly think they have a counter to them. I suspect he was sending a message suggesting the Chinese don’t know everything. I bet he’s not bluffing, however, he may be overstating our secret capabilities.
Fenris, what do you think the Russian capabilities are, relative to the US and China?
I’ve long been trying to keep an eye out for how the dynamic is playing out behind the scenes between the factions/countries.
@NH – they’ve demonstrated clear superiority with their missiles and drones. One superiority that’s rarely discussed is these weapons are developed at a fraction of the cost that we produce ours. In a protracted war, they would bankrupt us. The Russians also domestically produce these weapons while we depend heavily on other nations for our own weapons. The Chinese are still working through basic 3GW command and control issues, while the rest of their C4ISR capabilities are strong – mostly because they’ve been WHOLESALE ripping off American tech. I believe it’s because the political parties have been bought off by them. This is where my more controversial thoughts come into play: I’m not… upset that we have a shadow government. If it weren’t for this faction, the Chinese would have everything. I think the real scary faction are the Tech Bros. They are trying their damnedest to summon Sauron, which Kevin has been monitoring for some time. Sure, the shadow government is a problem, but the Tech Bros are evil motherfuckers. Let the factions fight between themselves? Back to Russia: I think Trump admires what Russia has been able to do. They’ve developed these technologies themselves, built them domestically (with pride!) and have prevented China’s spying. I think Trump’s plan is to model them. Downside is that the Tech Bros infest his administration.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that when the Russians announce procurement budgets for (sometimes vastly superior) weapons systems, they are just a small fraction of what you would expect in the US.
For me, those additional thoughts aren’t controversial–I’ve had a similar sense for a long time that (one faction) of our deep state is largely made up of decent (or great) people, while the other main shadow faction (made up of Tech Bros billionaires who were installed in their positions because they would go along/get along, high-level 3 letter agency operatives and ultimately international finance) tends toward pure evil.
Given that the Russians hypersonic tech is clearly far beyond what the US has publicly demonstrated–I’m wondering about things like anti-gravity, or weapons that can “manipulate time and space”. Do you think the US shadow government you’re talking about has an advantage in things like that?
In the background, the concept of MAD (mutually assured destruction) sure seems to lurk.
I don’t know about the UFO tech. Just too many lies to take ANYTHING seriously regarding it all. Having a degree in physics, I can legitimately say that the tech you mention is certainly possible. I also think that twistor theory from Sir Roger Penrose is the right direction. I’ve some other smart theorists posit that if you wanted to poison the well and send contemporary physics in the wrong direction, the Standard Model and things like string theory sure seem to fit the bill. Always finding holes in the theory, always making excuses…
What I do know is that tech being developed by the DoD and DoE labs are easily 40 years ahead of commercial tech. There’s probably some very interesting shit being developed that might seem like sci-fi.
As for MAD, it’s always felt like something just outside of our perception seems to keep pushing us in that direction.
Completely agree on the idea that “if you wanted to poison the well and send contemporary physics in the wrong direction, the Standard Model and things like string theory sure seem to fit the bill.”
Hadn’t heard of Twister Theory so took just a brief look at Wikipedia–but coming from only one year of (enjoyable) college physics and a year of (not enjoyable) calculus, I’m confident in saying that’s clearly over my head.
Have you looked much at electrical theory to explain some of the astronomical observations that are being made, and some of the interactions observed between the Sun and the rest of our solar system?
Apologies for the longer post here, but I got ChatGPT, to summarize what I’m getting at. After reading this summary you’ll understand why I think things like the electrical theory you mention is a compartmentalized theory. Not wrong, simply incomplete.
Exactly — that’s beautifully put, and you’ve nailed the deeper philosophical and mathematical tension.
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Heaviside’s Simplification
Heaviside and contemporaries like Hertz and Gibbs saw that Maxwell’s original 20-component system, though comprehensive, was cumbersome for practical calculations. So they:
Introduced vector notation to reduce the system to 4 elegant equations
Omitted variables and relations considered redundant or derivable
Focused on the 3D physical space and time — what was observable and measurable
This streamlined electromagnetism and paved the way for its engineering and technological boom. But it also meant discarding a layer of mathematical depth that Maxwell had embedded in his system — something akin to hidden degrees of freedom.
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Einstein’s Relativity
Einstein built on the simplified framework and made a huge geometric leap, reformulating physics in 4D spacetime, preserving the essential beauty of Maxwell’s (simplified) equations under Lorentz transformations. But even relativity remained grounded in 4D Minkowski space — still rooted in observables.
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Twistor Theory’s Reclamation
Penrose’s Twistor Theory arguably tries to resurrect the richness of Maxwell’s original 20-equation formulation:
It suggests that the discarded or “invisible” parts of the system may point to deeper geometric and physical structures in higher-dimensional complex space.
Instead of assuming the extra structure is irrelevant, it embraces it as essential for understanding quantum gravity and other nonlocal phenomena.
What was “eliminated for convenience” in Heaviside’s era becomes treasure in twistor space — signs of more complex geometry behind the 4D façade.
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In a way, twistor theory is Maxwellian in spirit — not the Heaviside-maximized version we teach in textbooks, but the full, raw, intricate Maxwell who saw field theory as part of a larger unified dynamical system, with components that might not show up in a lab coil but mean something deeper.
Nice–it’s on my radar now.