Stoppers rendered from expanded thermoplastic elastomer or closed cell polyethylene foam are superior to those of cork. Cork in turn was superior to rag soaked in linseed oil (that could not contain Dom Perignon’s fizzy wine).

Vacuum chiral pseudoscalar background: 1) Big Bang matter is favored over antimatter, 2) inflation is fueled by the pseudoscalar field that concurrently dilutes to trace contemporary values, 3) Weak interaction chirality is sourced, 4) biological homochirality is sourced… teleparallel gravitation theory with spacetime torsion (chiral like Lorentz force in electrodynamics) is set to go. EM is unaffected if the chiral interaction is configuration-dependent (requires left and right shoes) . Ordinary stuff is also inert. Opposite chirality mass distributions’ divergence is 10^(-12) relative or smaller - detetable but not commonly seen. A parity Nordtvedt effect does not obtain given chiral L-configuration protein amino acids (e.g., meat) cancel chiral D-configuration natural sugars (e.g., wood).

Theory is a whore. Observation is real. Perform the parity Eötvös experiment (pdf) - the only Equivalence Principle violation mechanism that has never been tested.

Unless it’s just a big conspiracy to confuse me.

Sometimes, as Spider Jerusalem tells us, paranoids are just people who have all the facts.

Identify and amplify the rare Gifted - they have a monopoly on creating every future we want. Educate the medicore that they may produce and consume. Train the non-academic, for there is much to be had for creating with your hands. That leaves the bottom 5% who have a monopoly on creating every future we loathe. Turn your back and walk away. If they fire, fire back.

I prefer “Fines Doubled in Work Areas.” That’s the label on the mix-tape I made, back in the day when one made mix tapes, and I was driving from Rockville to Whitney Point on a regular basis.