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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Reality as a Third-Rate Joke

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 am

For Sean Carroll, author of . . .

See also Carroll in this  journal.

Related humor for Doctor Strange

Windows Lockscreen at 12:43 AM ET tonight —

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=mount+everest&asset_id=532177317.

I prefer the non-humor of Cold Mountain .

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Ouellette vs. the Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:05 am

From the 2019 post Spring Loaded

British cover (2011) for 'From Eternity to Here,' by Sean Carroll

A more recent image, from Carroll's wife Jennifer Ouellette —

For a more sophisticated approach to the 4x4x4 cube,
see a page at finitegeometry.org.

Monday, September 16, 2019

Emergence

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:01 am

"Elementary particles are the most fundamental building blocks
of nature, and their study would seem to be an expression of
simplification in its purest form. The essence of complexity
research, by contrast, is the emergence of new kinds of order
that are only manifest when systems are large and messy."

— Sean Carroll in an opinion piece that concludes as follows:

The above plug for Sean Carroll's book
The Big Picture : On the Origins of
Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
   
suggests

'Forty-two' in 'The Padre'

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Spring-Loaded

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:00 am

Continued  (from previous post) . . .

British cover (2011) for 'From Eternity to Here,' by Sean Carroll

Time Fold Revisited

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:01 am

British cover (2011) for 'From Eternity to Here,' by Sean Carroll

(Oneworld Publications, Jan. 3, 2011)

Compare and contrast with an illustration
from "Time Fold," a webpage of Oct. 10, 2003 —

See also the Squarespace logo:

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

“Simplification in Its Purest Form”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:08 pm

For students of the Hogwash School of Witchcraft and Wizardry —

"Elementary particles are the most fundamental
building blocks of nature, and their study
would seem to be an expression of simplification
in its purest form." 

— Sean Carroll in The New York Times  today 
in an opinion piece titled "The Physicist Who
Made Sense of the Universe"

Related remarks:  See a Log24 search for "Simpli".

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