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Friday, June 10, 2022

Songlines.space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:36 am

To me, the new URL "Songlines.space" suggests both the Outback
and the University of Western Australia. For the former, see
"'Max Barry' + Lexicon" in this journal. For the latter, see SymOmega.

The new URL forwards to a combination of these posts.

A related song

'The Eddington Song'

Thursday, September 12, 2024

The Fourth

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:34 am

'The Eddington Song'

Three properties of space — interlocking, interlacing, interweaving.

— "One, two, three but where is the fourth?"

— "Socrates, the fourth, intertwining, is at . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=93725 ."

 

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Interweaving

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:17 am

In memory of the "Thomas Crown Affair" director, who
reportedly died at 97 on Saturday, Jan. 20 —

See as well . . .

'The Eddington Song'

Friday, December 10, 2021

Unhinged Melody

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:43 pm

The time of the previous post was 4:46 AM ET today.

Fourteen minutes later —

"I'm a groupie, really." — Murray Bartlett in today's online NY Times

The previous post discussed group actions on a 3×3 square array. A tune
about related group actions on a 4×4  square array (a Galois tesseract. . .

'The Eddington Song'

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Tune for a Matrix Dance

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:50 pm

"… inextricably intertwined in the fate of the Matrix …."

Screen Rant  today

See as well The Eddington Song in this  journal.

'The Eddington Song'

(The "intertwining" part is at Sex Textiles (March 26, 2021).)

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Dramarama Continues . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:08 am

… From January 14, 2021.

A design note from that date —

See also The Eddington Song

'The Eddington Song'

Friday, March 26, 2021

Sex Textiles: Introduction to Symplectic* Finite Geometry

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:13 pm

'The Eddington Song'

Another concept from The New York Times  today: intertwining

“The historical achievements and experiences of women and men
are like the intertwined warp and weft threads of a woven fabric.”

— Virginia Postrel in a NY Times  opinion piece today.

From Postrel’s Web page

* See (for instance) A Picture Show for Quanta Magazine.

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Continuity

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:49 pm

Actually, Dirac “bridged math and physics” much earlier —

“Spinors, which are a kind of square root of vectors, had been introduced
in algebra and also in physics as part of Paul Dirac’s theory of the electron.
A spin structure on a manifold allows such square roots to exist.”

Quanta Magazine  today, article by Daniel S. Freed

See The Eddington Song  and . . .

Poetic paraphrase
“How can we tell the singer from the song?”

Monday, September 7, 2020

A Discovery of Space

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:50 pm

Fiction set in Duke Humfrey's Reading Room at
the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford:

"I walked quickly through the original, fifteenth-century part of the library, past the rows of Elizabethan reading desks with their three ascending bookshelves and scarred writing surfaces. Between them, Gothic windows directed the reader’s attention up to the coffered ceilings, where bright paint and gilding picked out the details of the university’s crest of three crowns and open book and where its motto, 'God is my illumination,'  was proclaimed repeatedly from on high."

 

— Harkness, Deborah. A Discovery of Witches:
A Novel
  (2011) (All Souls Trilogy, Book 1 ) (p. 2).
Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Related non-fiction about an event on Jan. 26, 2019 —

Meanwhile, elsewhere —

A later ad for the Lyche exhibition —

See as well some posts about the Eddington song

'The Eddington Song'

Monday, December 30, 2019

“Welcome to Scotland.”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:04 am

John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland,
reportedly died there in the early morning
of Saturday, November 16, 2019.

See also Alasdair Gray and Eddington Song
in particular, Logic in the Spielfeld.

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Logic in the Spielfeld

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:03 pm

"A great many other properties of  E-operators
have been found, which I have not space
to examine in detail."

— Sir Arthur EddingtonNew Pathways in Science ,
Cambridge University Press, 1935, page 271.

The following 4×4 space, from a post of Aug. 30, 2015,
may help:

The next time she visits an observatory, Emma Stone
may like to do a little dance to

'The Eddington Song'

Sunday, September 15, 2019

Changes Interlock

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:07 pm

"Changes interlock…." — John Dewey

Indeed they do.

'The Eddington Song'

Friday, July 12, 2019

Instrumental

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 am

The title is from a New York Times  correction in the previous post.

Introduction

'The Eddington Song'

Main Body

Piano roll for "I am sixteen going on seventeen" —

Medal of 9/15/06

Backstory:  Posts tagged Root Circle.

Monday, February 25, 2019

“Far from the shallow now”

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:06 am

See posts tagged depth.

See as well Eddington Song and the previous post.

Saturday, January 26, 2019

In Memory of a Composer

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

who reportedly died early today in Paris, a tribute from
those who wrote the English lyrics for "Windmills of Your Mind" —

Legrand tribute related to 'Eddington Song'

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Decorated

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

For those who prefer more elaborate decorations —

1.  A Facebook image from last August … 

2.  The Facebook glider suggests a tune from "The Thomas Crown Affair"
     (1968) that appeared in a Dec. 16, 2018 post on Christianity and
     "interlocking names"—

'The Eddington Song'

The revised lyrics describe a square space.

3.  An even more  elaborate square space:
     the Dance of the Snowflakes from
     Balanchine's version of The Nutcracker —

Sunday, December 16, 2018

Interlocking

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:30 pm

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Eddington+Song

'The Eddington Song'

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Opening Credits

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 7:47 pm

From Log24 on Friday, Nov. 16

This evening's New York Times  on an opening-credits designer, 
Pablo Ferro, who reportedly died at 83 on Friday, Nov. 16 —

An example of Ferro's later work in film —

Musical accompaniment from Sunday morning —

'The Eddington Song'

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Logos

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:21 pm

(Continued)

Musical accompaniment from Sunday morning

'The Eddington Song'

Update of Nov. 21 —

The reader may contrast the above Squarespace.com logo
(a rather serpentine version of the acronym SS) with a simpler logo
for a square space (the Galois window ):

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Space Music

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:27 am

'The Eddington Song,' based on 'The Philosophy of Physical Science,' p. 141 (1939)

Update of Nov. 19 —

"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs

See also www.cullinane.design.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Anticommuting Dirac Matrices as Skew Lines

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:45 pm

(Continued from November 13)

The work of Ron Shaw in this area, ca. 1994-1995, does not
display explicitly the correspondence between anticommutativity
in the set of Dirac matrices and skewness in a line complex of
PG(3,2), the projective 3-space over the 2-element Galois field.

Here is an explicit picture —

Anticommuting Dirac matrices as spreads of projective lines

References:  

Arfken, George B., Mathematical Methods for Physicists , Third Edition,
Academic Press, 1985, pages 213-214

Cullinane, Steven H., Notes on Groups and Geometry, 1978-1986

Shaw, Ron, "Finite Geometry, Dirac Groups, and the Table of
Real Clifford Algebras," undated article at ResearchGate.net

Update of November 23:

See my post of Nov. 23 on publications by E. M. Bruins
in 1949 and 1959 on Dirac matrices and line geometry,
and on another author who gives some historical background
going back to Eddington.

Some more-recent related material from the Slovak school of
finite geometry and quantum theory —

Saniga, 'Finite Projective Spaces, Geometric Spreads of Lines and Multi-Qubits,' excerpt

The matrices underlying the Saniga paper are those of Pauli, not
those of Dirac, but these two sorts of matrices are closely related.

Friday, May 6, 2022

The Hat Tip

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:50 pm

https://www.spotern.com/en/spot/tv/the-blacklist/7939/
the-borsalino-raymond-reddington-james-spader-in-the-blacklist

Related material —

"A good, involving mystery featuring strong characters and
prose as smooth as the brim of a fedora, this novel makes
smart points about writing, publishing and the cult of mysteries."

Review of A Smile on the Face of the Tiger 

See also . . .

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Legal Standing

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:01 pm

"To demonstrate standing, a claimant must first show
he has incurred concrete, particularized and actual
or imminent injury; that the injury can be fairly traced
back to what is being challenged in court and that
the remedy sought can redress the issue."

— https://yaledailynews.com/
blog/2018/02/27/law-clinic-pushes-for-
fisa-court-transparency/

The above Yale date suggests a review of . . .

Raiders of the Lost Images . . .

which in turn suggests a review of Square Space.

Soundtrack (condensed) —

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Saturday, August 24, 2019

For those who prefer Tell . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:20 pm

(The title refers to the previous post.)

"There is a house in New Orleans
Not the one you've heard about,
I'm talking about another house.
They spoke of gold in the cellar
That a Spanish gentleman had left…"

Song lyric by David Berman suggested by
his New Yorker  elegy

"Reddington and Vesco are watching the opera,
and the plan begins."

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Installasjon

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:13 am

'Josefine Lyche,' 'Interlock, Interlac, Interweave'

The above cryptic search result indicates that there may
soon be a new Norwegian art installation based on this page
of Eddington (via Log24) —

See also other posts tagged Kummerhenge.

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