Peers, I'm so proud.

My genetic firstborn Helfberg is 8 years old (standard) and has been watching his pops maximize throughput on his RD-6x quantum gate dilennium gigaplexic capacitator for a while now.

In recent months he's been wanting to help, so I gave him some reading materials on Bernardi's thermodynamic anti-principles, basic counterflomic guidestreams, BLENQ, and Level II organic aeroparticulate repurposing.

Before I knew it, he was hard at work in the shop on his first IHR Assembly! [see photo]

My son's first IHR Assembly! [pre-installation]

You'll immediately notice his savvy use of:

• Stock VX 3^ thermo-sink dissipators (+/- 35 wents) for ambient stablation
• A Helofoam graphene-infused core buffer cap
• A frankly elegant use of .45bx ecopolymer osmotic fezzlers for static redissipation
• The simple transparent aluminum reflux monitor (I was delighted by this)

He's really quite good already.

(Obviously he still needs more understanding of dynamic micro/macro TLI flow tendencies and nanorefraternization -- but he's well on his way!)

Naturally, we wanted to take it for a spin.

After careful inspection and a few minor neoplexic stent modifications, I mounted his Assembly to the blenticulated aux output on my secondary 3500 NGL sublimator (NOT the main line for a first test, duh).

We spun it up to a modest 22 cycles/m^6.3y (and only +0.1 ampl2 pins -- I didn't want to vaporize Philadelphia LOL!) and... it held up to 22.6 gigafloqs! It was awesome.

Unfortunately, the buffer cap seal gave out at a mere 3.2 p/s and sent a double-recarbonized Bellenstein heat bloom through the quanticulated safety release valve. (That's what it's there for, I guess!)

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As you can see, Helfberg's synthetic comfort ursus-analog Teddy Rauxbendt bore the brunt of the charged dynamic overpressure. Ooops. Poor thing.

Aside from that, we're all none the worse for wear. A successful first test, and Helfy's made me so proud. He's already busy planning a compound plentificated stratification automator. Gonna need a bigger shop!

I can't wait for him to learn about elemental reoxytorbinations... then things will REALLY get exciting. Will keep you updated.

In the meantime, keep following your VX passion and inspiring the next generation.

Have a wonderful day!

My child is pretty set on a career in industrial VX. Unfortunately, they are going to a small college without a dedicated VX major. As we all know, classic problems like encabulation involve mechanical and electrical engineering. But I keep hearing that encabulation is no longer as big a research area compared to aperturation and heterosimulation, and VX is more interdisciplinary than ever. Here are our notes so far:

• EE: For signal processing these days more than hands-on stuff or EM. For example tracking a graphon through reticulated torsion flutes, or cisducer optimization. When working with older systems sometimes you still need to hand-solder circuits. Lots of buzz about heterosimulation reducing carbon footprint compared to full simulation, not sure if this will work out.
• Quantum or plasma physics. Quantum effects are key in VX, most of this is beyond me. Lots of industry demand for better plasma aperturation at higher energies, and this is likely to continue for as long as we can't magically aperturate the oscillators. Dirac helices used in aperturation are basically modified stellarators.
• Something with good pathways to engineering management. Given the events of 2022, we'll never forget the horrible consequences of contaminated samarium in safety-critical parts. With enough superlimation leverage, the next big disaster could potentially be prevented. But this seems like basically a management problem, not a technical one.

What looks best here, and am I missing anything?

Many people here are more familiar with VX terminology than that used in other physics and engineering disciplines. But the VX way of thinking is extremely powerful, and often highly complex machines can easily be explained in familiar VX terms like flux, lattices, transduction, and cascades. So I'm here to explain the elementary principles behind the low-density low-pressure matter fluxor (LDLPMF), often called by the nondescriptive, unhelpful term "fan", in language familiar to a VX grad student and hopefully accessible to the hobbyist as well.

• TL;DR Fundamentally, the principle of a LDLPMF is gaseous matter flux production through a momentum transfer cascade (MTC) initiated by distributed nanoscale collision.
• The basic components are an electrical cisducer, a rotational electromechanical transducer (REMT), an aeromotive impeller (AMI), and a Pauli stanchion. I will explain these in sequence and have included a diagram for reference.

Fundamentally, the principle of a LDLPMF is gaseous matter flux production through a momentum transfer cascade (MTC) initiated by distributed nanoscale collision.

• The power source is electromotive force conveyed by a pair of flexible, ultra-high aspect ratio cylinders (comprising an electrical cisducer) to the REMT; for safety reasons, the cisducer is always coated in dielectric polymer. The EMF waveform may be sinusoid and originate from an EM receptacle, or uniform when from a primary or secondary galvanic pile. A cisducer is simply like two opposite transducers in series, but more efficient because it avoids conversion losses.
• The rotational electromechanical transducer (REMT) connects to the electrical cisducer and utilizes the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, harnessing the Lorentz force rather than the capacitive diractance that may be familiar from, say, an encabulator. Dozens of variants—extending over a century of electromechanical innovation—exploit variations in commutation, field orientation, and reluctance gradients, but universally require relativistic effects.
• The most proximate cause of fluxion is a aeromotive impeller (AMI), functioning analogously to an ordinary impeller, but designed for maximizing total flux produced in rarefied compressible media, and hence using 3-11 foils rather than an impeller's vanes. If graphed in 3D with time replacing the axial direction, the AMI foils' motion is helical (like on a KBFI emitter but with space/time switched). The foils engage in stochastic interactions with discrete molecules of the medium, initiating a MTC which ultimately effectuates a macroscopic displacement of the medium by a nearly unidirectional vector field despite often having Re>10^5 locally.
• The foils are totally surrounded by a oblate latticed enclosure (like used for counter-induction, but oblate) nearly concentric to the AMI, which prevents FOD ingress to the sweep zone. Offset axially from this is a stanchion running in the radial direction, which ensures a continuous chain of Pauli exclusion-related forces between the REMT and a horizontal planar substrate-- if this chain were to break even momentarily or the total force exceed Euler's limit* of π^2 E I / (4 L^2), this delicate equilibrium would fail and stored gravitic energy would of course be released, causing an impulsive-decelerative loading event and potentially rendering the entire apparatus unusable.
• A variety of specialized materials are required. The cisducer must have a near-zero internal EM field, or else it can start a fire. For the AMI foils, the eigenvalues of its elastic modulus tensor must be large, or else have eigenvectors orthogonal to the integrated ω^2 r force and the Newton's 3rd law force. For the body, olefinoid macromolecules are common. Unlike in VX, materials are rarely auxetic or spintronic due to relative availability. However, the complex supply chains found in VX machines are even more prevalent with the LDLPMF. It's not uncommon for the supply chain to extend across three continents and include 15+ factories, each with hundreds of skilled and unskilled employees.

LDLPMFs are immensely complicated and it's taken decades to work out all the kinks. For example, if you have an even number of foils, you get screwed by constructive interference of aeroacoustic wavefronts. But now you understand at least the basics! Let me know if I got anything wrong.

* Euler's limit sometimes comes up in VX; pros know to keep their stanchions a reasonable length.

Modern VDEs like Ongrify are magic... they'll generate boilerplate cohesion strings, compile your L9 matrices down into machine code, map the grid core fluctuators to your personal algorithms. But then you lose touch with the lower level layers of your own VX software.

I'm still using Xinner (yes, the original 1967 version!) and I manage all that stuff myself. It seems like more work, but when something really screws up I know exactly how to fix it, and I fix it fast! Plus I can copy my setup and bring it to anybody else's machine and get running in no time. And the keyboard and prambda panel shortcuts are sooo much better than using the touchpad and the dials! My shoulder hurts whenever I have to use somebody's VDE.

Some of you love your Texicon setups, but that's just too hardcore for me. I know a guy who flies a drone around the neighbourhood using Texicon. I just want a damn editor. But Texicon is still better than modern VDEs in my opinion.

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Looking for a new _stable_ replacement for this T-separator. What are my options?

I know what you all are going to say: it's old tech, it doesn’t have the gyro-stepped drive alignment, and no, it obviously won't work with the VX 9's manifold. (Yes, I checked the torque charts). But hear me out. This baby can push deltas up to 0.6 with zero oscillation, and I’m willing to sacrifice the delta threshold just for the authenticity of those yttrium-lined chambers. I get it, some of you are all about maxing out the boson-to-filtration ratio, but I'm more here for that raw, pre-digital feel—when Горський used actual yttrium, not whatever composite crap that Carlisle is putting out these days.

Besides, it’s got a reverse-polarized straight-bore cyclonic insert, meaning I'll maintain a constant angular pressure on the submicron lattice without compromising axial stabilizers—even in a high-debris flux scenario. And, sure, I’m aware the yttrium chambers don’t even register on the triple-wave energy calibration of the latest Tier-5 DCF models, but who’s really running quantum-fusion particle screens on a Soviet-era piece anyway? We’re talking a filtration pathway that predates the H-VX2 paradigm, running at precisely 0.6 delta variance under sustained, multi-hour runs! For anyone not obsessed with a perfectly tuned quartz differential, this is literally peak fidelity.

Any of you OGs have experience retrofitting this beast with a VX plug mod? Or do I just bite the bullet and run it stock?

Sometimes people in this community complain about their delta or some other metric being low, often blaming this on component suppliers. As a newer VX enthusiast I'd like to explain why I think this is unhelpful at best and toxic at worst.

Basically, VX is an inherently unforgiving domain. Almost all arrangements of atoms achieve a maximum delta of zero (or undefined for degenerate systems). It basically requires 10-15 miracles of technology for your home-built or custom industrial machine to achieve positive delta.

Take gel-based repolarizers. People thought these would completely replace Saltzman repolarizers. But in practice, gel sheaves must be VERY thixotropic, ambipolarizable, resistant to energy doping, and (due to Marangoni effect) resistant to rogue phonons. This is an extremely difficult list of properties to satisfy. Rogue phonons are a complex interaction between other VX components, so we should be celebrating when they reliably miss your resonant frequencies. If you tried to build one yourself, the gel would look like this after like 0.1 second. Likewise energy dopants are deliberately designed to alter mixing energies, so it’s basically a miracle that current loci (pun not intended) are resistant. I hope I don’t need to explain ambicoupling or why ambipolarizability is difficult.

All this means that when you get bad polarization or need to spend 10x as much on an “obsolete” Saltzman or Saltzman-Carey repolarizer, there is no conspiracy against you. One of the 10-15 miracle components is just slightly less miraculous in your particular setting. Same with APW or TDMC issues. Luckily we at least tend to be adults about eg dynanofluxer stability.

So in conclusion, we’re sometimes doing the equivalent of blaming 3d printing companies for not having dirt-cheap titanium parts with perfect tolerances. Or worse, blaming titanium for being difficult to machine when this is directly related to it being strong and useful. Don’t think this way, it just doesn’t help anyone.

If you disagree I'd like to hear your opinion, but don't just complain about repolarizers or fluxers.

Dear VX Community,

I am sure we are all aware of the important work that has been done on triple-gamma pariolization by Dr. Federico Garibaldi in the past 20 years. But what if I were to tell you that it was all a lie? That Garibaldi faked all his results, and that there is a critical flaw in all VX-4 running Romagnoli contendulators?

According to recent peer-reviewed studies from both Pedro Henrique Memorial VX Laboratory in Manaus and the ZVX Corporation in Astana (formerly the Red Army Kazakh VX Centre), all Romagnoli contendulators are calibrated in-factory to receive five gammas worth of parioles - not three, as is stated in the material and the marketing. This could result in dangerously high argon levels in the Traoré-space map if used for a sufficient length of time.

The person in charge of R&D at Romagnoli? Federico Garibaldi. Full disclosure: I work for VXtreme Monthly as a staff writer. We did a deep investigation into Romagnoli R&D and found that - shockingly - it doesn’t exist. The tax records show payment to a single employee, Garibaldi, with a budget of millions of Euros. His whereabouts, along with many senior Romagnoli executives, are unknown. However, if you have a Romagnoli contendulator, or come into contact with one on a regular basis, a class-action lawsuit is linked in our full article.

Stepping away from journalist mode for a moment, this has rocked me to my core. As a formalist VXer (studied in Empoli even!), Garibaldi was one of my heroes, but it seems like even the greatest of VXers can be utterly amoral and greedy in the pursuit of money. Sad day for the community.

Having trouble getting the correct muon angular spin out of a 1.6 GW TURBO encabulator to nullify the coulomb barrier. Does anyone have experience in this? Running apache redline to monitor zero point fluctuations, but stuck beside this. Help!

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