The Devil is in the Details in Advanced Manufacturing (and the beginnings of our philosophy)

General Physics has collaborated with numerous manufacturing facilities domestically and internationally (Urban Workshop Zurich Instruments, Research Instruments, etc). From experience gained on the shop floor, we have learned valuable lessons regarding manufacturing capabilities and limits. One good example of this is the construction of our prototype cusped mirror electric quadrupole. Designed from theory developed by J.D. Jackson in Classical Electrodynamics (I recall this book fondly from graduate school as do many others I am sure) and the relations of Maxwell, the critical design involves connecting the analytic theory -- closed form, elegant, and rigorous -- with an accurate machined part. Getting a curved plate in the vice grip of the Bridgeport mill is a task in and of itself. This is why the devil is in the details. Many people will say, just manufacture the thing, or buy a machine and get the techs to build it, but complex geometries require new and novel jigs and holders for the pieces. Securing and fastening the cusped mirror quadrupole required the construction of a new extended round flexible vice. What is critical is the design phase being limited in time and the manufacturing feedback or measurements being correlated to improvement cycles. The consulting division of General Physics utilizes a feedback flow chart oversight committee design protocol and we believe, at least in the manufacturing space, in a workshop model.

The interesting thing about a workshop paradigm is the sense of purpose and productivity that is generated from efficiency. Rather than wasted hours in meetings and design, the optimization happens in the industrial and shop floor setting. Here, practical real world examples and problems are solved from engineering disciplines with the added creativity of the mathematician/physicist. To optimize requires observation and experience, and we at General Physics are geared to measure and have had the time in lab.

We look forward to a rapid improvement cycle and expansion in the years to come. Part of the Q4 plan in 2026 is to develop a future timeline and prospectus for the eight divisions and the necessary factory space, shipyard, advanced manufacturing, and simulation areas where we can get the job done. In many ways, we are job ready day one, but our vision requires a new model of the universe. We believe in sustainability and an eco-friendly paradigm. Electric vehicles and construction equipment, electric aircraft, fusion energy, supergrid, new hospitals, out of the box education, new paradigms, and planting more trees and parks. What is fun, is developing a residential/commercial/industrial Riemann zeta model of civilization from an orthogonal viewpoint or some relativistic frame of reference beyond the traditional viewpoint of city/states. We believe in a multi-generational multi-family home plan, a communal walking city, freedom of movement and a clean and safe public transport system. General Physics supports economic plans too (which are beyond the scope of the manufacturing paradigm) leading to something like the National Board for Prices and Incomes of the UK in the late 1960s. Curb inflation with accurate price control and wage mitigation from 6 month time limited changes.

If you talk to our physicists, they will tell you about fusion energy, neutral beams, A.I., quantum computing, a supergrid, 3D printed cell and tissue culture, and consulting from logical first principles. It is a war against the superstition of the other, against oppression and the system of rights and privileges that enslaves the factory worker who spends a lot fo time laboring and does not see the benefit of their efforts. It is a pay to play system, where investment from low interest rates creates positive social outcomes (via deficit spending) and we also have to think of margin based profit models from hard work in projections that depend upon strategic government investment. Lower taxes on fusion etc. like CA Senate Bill 86 which needs to be passed until at least 2035. Again, the market forces have to be trained by the underlying government, corralled for the benefit of all. This means education and strategic taxing, strategic grant investment, and more hiring of oversight committees that can see projects through despite regime changes. Our government is just one of many; we need coalition government and unity, without uniformity. We have to build distinguishable states yet have our act together. Let's build something small, maybe focus on fusion and the supergrid -- then solve major problems.

We stand with Ukraine and hope to make peace in the world. However, if your friends are bullying you and you cannot find local equilibrium (as Serge Lang posited) then there is no global stability. General Physics tackles the hardest problems and we reiterate the message that one must take the fight to the enemy.