Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Mad Scientist News
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Masonic Mojo Dojo Casa House
"Through the unknown, remembered gate . . . ."
A differently remembered gate —
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
American Co-Prometheus
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Looking Carefully
From Thursday, January 11 —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
Or at Jenna Ortega in a Valentino dress —
Thursday, January 11, 2024
X-Post
See also "Opening the Local/Global Seal," Log24, March 8, 2023.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
ResearchGate d’Or : “Anatomy of a Fall”
The Departing
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
White Space
Hat tip to Instagram's @slightlystable for some colorful background
today on Venice Beach Kundalini. Related reading —
A synchronology check on the above WWD date,
Aug. 4, 2021, yields some related art —
"Here's to efficient packing."
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Tangled-Up Equation
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Chants
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Shelter Journalism
In memory of a shelter-magazine editor who reportedly
died on October 17, two posts from that date —
Barbie at the Space Barn and A Fair Thought.
Related art — Square Round and Round Square.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Barbenheimer for Bible Fans:
Valley of the Shadow of the Dolls
Valley of the Shadow of the Dolls
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Dreamgirls: Kate Mara in Space Barn!
The above piece is from Bloomsday 2023. See also this journal
on that date, as well as . . .
For Oppenheimer… and Indiana Jones,
at Halloween Season
Commentary on the "Gyrus" book —
http://numero57.net/2007/12/20/archaeologies-of-consciousness/ .
The commentary was written in the time of the winter solstice, 2007.
See also this journal at that time.
Related musical offering for Doctor Sleep: Lyrics to Nightshift.
at Halloween Season
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
A Bond with Reality: The Geometry of Cuts
Illustrations of object and gestures
from finitegeometry.org/sc/ —
Object
Gestures
An earlier presentation of the above
seven partitions of the eightfold cube:
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Related mathematics:
The use of binary coordinate systems
Natural physical transformations of square or cubical arrays See "The Thing and I." |
and . . .
Related entertainment:
Or Matt Helm by way of a Jedi cube.
Monday, October 23, 2023
Elegy for Mrs. Davis*— When Starlets Are Produced
Mrs. Davis was the wife of Chandler Davis, an editor of
The Mathematical Intelligencer .
Related reading —
* Vide "Mrs. Davis" in this journal.
Another Maniac Monday
See as well other posts now tagged Maniac Series Begins.
Related reading: A Sept. 29 review of The MANIAC , a novel.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Lockscreen: A Beach for KenKen
Thursday, October 19, 2023
The Metterklume Polonaise
Math for Barbie
Continued from "Barbie at the Space Barn," Oct. 17.
"Open the Space Barn doors, Barbie." —
For those who prefer the Hollywood part of L.A.,
there is Barbierella —
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
The Venice Mirror: July 21, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Wave-Particle Transformation
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
The Heisenberg Play
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Exploring Color Space: Pinkie and Blue Boy
For Loki: The Deep Blue Standstill
Related reading —
A fact check on the release date of the Winehouse "Back to Black" album
yields two possible correct dates in October 2006. See this journal on those
dates —
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Fat Man and Dancing Girl …
Continued from February 18, 2003*
Does she hide the lie?
Does she say it so no one can know?
Fat man and the dancing girl
And it's all part of the show"
Friday, October 6, 2023
“A Shining” — New Jon Fosse Book, Out on Halloween
Shining-related material from my own life —
Other material related to my own life, also on the date
November 25, 2009, but less personal —
From the current version —
Some background —
Thursday, October 5, 2023
“Are you shining with a real Barbie?” (1984 version)
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Meeting Cute: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie (continued)
See also the previous post.
Quantum Dots: “The Thing and I” Continues.
See as well "The Thing and I."
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
The Pinky Prize
Detail from a post of October 2 —
Color scheme at Replit perhaps influenced by the recent film "Barbie" —
Friday, July 21, 2023
“Terminator Zero: Rise of the Chatbots” … Continues.
From https://clever-chat.ai/demo/32f6d9c9107/complete
at about 3 PM ET on Friday, July 21, 2023 —
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Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Tuesday February 18, 2003
Fat Man and Dancing Girl
Dance of |
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Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, portrayed in the film "Fat Man and Little Boy," died on this date in 1967.
He is sometimes called the "father of the A-bomb." He said that at the time of the first nuclear test he thought of a line from the Sanskrit holy book, the Bhagavad Gita: "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." The following gives more details.
The Bomb of the Blue God
M. V. Ramana
Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University
Published in SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, Issue 13
Oppenheimer had learned Sanskrit at Berkeley so as to read the Gita in the original; he always kept a worn pink copy on the bookshelf closest to his desk. It is therefore likely that he may have actually thought of the original, Sanskrit, verse rather than the English translation. The closest that fits this meaning is in the 32nd verse from the 11th chapter of the Gita.
kalosmi lokaksaya krt pravrddho
This literally means: I am kAla, the great destroyer of Worlds. What is intriguing about this verse, then, is the interpretation of kAla by Jungk and others to mean death. While death is technically one of the meanings of kAla, a more common one is time. Indeed, the translations of the Gita by S. Radhakrishnan, A. C. Bhaktivedanta, Nataraja Guru and Eliot Deutsch say precisely that. One exception to this, however, is the 1929 translation by Arthur Ryder. And, indeed, in a 1933 letter to his brother, Robert Oppenheimer does mention that he has "been reading the Bhagavad Gita with Ryder and two other Sanskritists." The misinterpretation, therefore, may not have been the fault of Oppenheimer or Jungk. Nevertheless, the verse does not have anything to do with an apocalyptic or catastrophic destruction, as most people have interpreted it in connection with nuclear weapons. When kAla is understood as time, the meaning is drastically changed to being a reminder of our mortality and finite lifetimes as also the lifetimes of everything else in this world (including plutonium and uranium, despite their long, long, half-lives!). It then becomes more akin to western notions of the "slow march of time" and thus having little to do with the immense destruction caused by a nuclear explosion. While the very first images that arose in the father of the atomic bomb are a somewhat wrong application of Hindu mythology, his recollection of the Bhagavad Gita may have been quite pertinent. As is well known, the Bhagavad Gita was supposedly intended to persuade Arjuna to participate in the Kurukshetra battle that resulted in the killing of thousands. Thus, Oppenheimer may well have been trying to rationalize his involvement in the development of a terrible weapon.
Source: Google cache of
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/5409/samar_bluegod.pdf
See also
http://www.samarmagazine.org/archive/article.php?id=36.
"KAla" (in the Harvard-Kyoto transliteration scheme) is more familiar to the West in the related form of Kali, a goddess sometimes depicted as a dancing girl; Kali is related to kAla, time, according to one website, as "the force which governs and stops time." See also the novel The Fermata, by Nicholson Baker.
The fact that Oppenheimer thought of Chapter 11, verse 32, of the Gita may, as a mnemonic device, be associated with the use of the number 1132 in Finnegans Wake.
See 1132 A. D. & Saint Brighid, and my weblog entries of January 5 (Twelfth Night and the whirligig of time), January 31 (St. Bridget's Eve), and February 1 (St. Bridget's Day), 2003.
Tuesday February 18, 2003
Midnight Flame
Fever isn't such a new thing;
Fever started long ago.
And most of the show is concealed from view.
— Suzanne Vega, "Fat Man and Dancing Girl," 99.9° F. album
See the entries of Jan. 5, 2003 and of Feb. 1, 2003.