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Saturday, August 22, 2020

Magic for Liars* . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:27 pm

From a web page

From YouTube, for the Church of Synchronology

Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .

* See that book title in this journal.

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Overarching Symmetries

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:47 pm

By the Daniel J. Peterson whose Swarthmore honors thesis was quoted
here last night

"What, then, is the relationship between theory-relative symmetries 
(physical symmetries) and theory-independent symmetries 
(overarching symmetries)? My statement of this problem is
a bit abstract, so let’s look at an example: classical Newtonian gravity
and classical electromagnetism . . . ."

— Prospects for a New Account of Time Reversal
by Daniel J. Peterson, Ph.D. dissertation, U. Mich., 2013, p. 16.

Another 2013 approach to the word "overarching" and sytmmetries —

Other terms of interest:  TenetNolanism , and Magic for Liars .

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

The Thing

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:22 pm

Related cultural remarks — Magic for Liars.

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

A Long Literary Tradition

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:38 pm

"There's a long literary tradition associating
certain kinds of geometry with horror."

— American Mathematical Society yesterday:

See also yesterday's Log24 post "Transylvania Revisited."

A related post —

Harvard Showbiz.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

The Central Myth

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:12 pm

Wikipedia on film producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura
(Harvard AB (1980) in Intellectual History*) —

“His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and
shepherding The Matrix  into production, and the
purchase of the rights to the Harry Potter  books by
J. K. Rowling.”

From the previous post

“But he enters into the central myth of
this book at another, higher level as well;
for he is an artist, a potter . . . .

— Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty on
Claude Lévi-Strauss, author of
The Jealous Potter

* See as well “What is Intellectual History?” and
Magic for Liars .

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