See the above science adviser in this journal —
Monday, February 7, 2022
Science News
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Continuity
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?”
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Teaching the Academy to See
“Art bears the same relationship to society
that the dream bears to mental life. . . .
Like art, the dream mediates between order
and chaos. So, it is half chaos. That is why
it is not comprehensible. It is a vision, not
a fully fledged articulated production.
Those who actualize those half-born visions
into artistic productions are those who begin
to transform what we do not understand into
what we can at least start to see.”
— A book published on March 2, 2021:
Beyond Order , by Jordan Peterson
The inarticulate, in this case, is Rosalind Krauss:
A “raid on the inarticulate” published in Notices of the
American Mathematical Society in the February 1979 issue —
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Out on the Cutting Edge*
| That edge, where artists are always transforming chaos into order, can be a very rough and dangerous place. Living there, an artist constantly risks falling fully into the chaos, instead of transforming it. But artists have always lived there, on the border of human understanding. Art bears the same relationship to society that the dream bears to mental life. You are very creative when you are dreaming. That is why, when you remember a dream, you think, “Where in the world did that come from?” It is very strange and incomprehensible that something can happen in your head, and you have no idea how it got there or what it means. It is a miracle: nature’s voice manifesting itself in your psyche. And it happens every night. Like art, the dream mediates between order and chaos. So, it is half chaos. That is why it is not comprehensible. It is a vision, not a fully fledged articulated production. Those who actualize those half-born visions into artistic productions are those who begin to transform what we do not understand into what we can at least start to see. That is the role of the artist, occupying the vanguard. That is their biological niche. They are the initial civilizing agents.
— Peterson, Jordan B., Beyond Order (p. 215), |
See also . . .
* Title credit —
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021
For Fans of Chaos Magic
The phrase “Chaos Magic” in the conclusion of last week’s
WandaVision episode suggests . . .
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Non-Chaos Non-Magic
For fans of “WandaVision” —
“1978 was perhaps the seminal year in the origin of chaos magic. . . .”
— Wikipedia article on Chaos Magic
Non-Chaos Non-Magic from Halloween 1978 —
Related material —
A doctoral student of a different Peter Cameron —
( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. )
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
The Chaos Symbol of Dan Brown
In the following passage, Dan Brown claims that an eight-ray star
with arrowheads at the rays’ ends is “the mathematical symbol for
entropy.” Brown may have first encountered this symbol at a
questionable “Sacred Science” website. Wikipedia discusses
some even less respectable uses of the symbol.
Related news —
Related symbolism —
A star figure and the Galois quaternion.
The square root of the former is the latter.
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