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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Geometry and Art

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:54 am

AI-assisted report on "Cullinane Diamond Theorem discovery" —

Cullinane Diamond Theorem discovery

The full  story of how the theorem was discovered is actually
a bit more interesting.  See Art Space, a post of May 7, 2017,
and The Lindbergh Manifesto, a post of May 19, 2015.

"The discovery of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem is a testament
to the power of mathematical abstraction and its ability to reveal
deep connections and symmetries in seemingly simple structures."

I thank Bing for that favorable review.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Heisenberg on Beauty

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:23 am
 

"… die Schönheit… [ist] die
 richtige Übereinstimmung
 der Teile miteinander
 und mit dem Ganzen."

"Beauty is the proper conformity
 of the parts to one another
 and to the whole."
 
  — Werner Heisenberg,
"Die Bedeutung des Schönen
 in der exakten Naturwissenschaft,"
 address delivered to the
 Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts,
 Munich, 9 Oct. 1970, reprinted in
 Heisenberg's Across the Frontiers,
 translated by Peter Heath,
 Harper & Row, 1974

This is not the meth-lab Heisenberg —
who also suggests a German saying:

. . . Gestaltung, Umgestaltung, 
  Des ewigen Sinnes ewige Unterhaltung . . . .

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Wave-Particle Transformation

The Source —

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The Heisenberg Play

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:00 am

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

For Loki:  The Deep Blue Standstill

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 1:01 pm

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 —

October 27, 2006  and  October 4, 2006.

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Today’s Science Sermon

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:54 pm

"Quantum accidents happen all the time.
Why haven’t I simply vanished into a quantum fizz
like Schrodinger’s cat, both dead and alive
at the same time? I can only conclude that
there is safety and stability in the astronomical
numbers of which we are composed.
Perhaps the large numbers constitute a bulwark
against quantum uncertainty. So I am here — I think."

Dennis Overbye in the New York Times ,

Update of 1:20 p.m. ET the same day —

"And what is your bulwark against the Heisenberg  group?"

Sunday, November 20, 2022

The Passenger

Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am
 

See as well The Passenger  in this journal.

Work and Play

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

"All work and no play . . ."

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Backstory

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

See Damnation Morning in this journal.

   See as well "Livingstone" in this  journal.

Saturday, July 10, 2021

Transformers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:33 am

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by C. G. Jung

Recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffé,
translated from the German
by Richard and Clara Winston, 
Vintage Books edition of April 1989

From pages 195-196:

“Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is:
‘Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind’s eternal recreation.’*
And that is the self, the wholeness of the personality,
which if all goes well is harmonious,
but which cannot tolerate self-deceptions.”

Faust , Part Two, trans. by Philip Wayne (Harmondsworth,
England, Penguin Books Ltd., 1959), p. 79. The original:

                   … Gestaltung, Umgestaltung, 
  Des ewigen Sinnes ewige Unterhaltung….

Jung’s “Formation, Transformation” quote is from
the realm of the Mothers (Faust Part Two, Act 1, Scene 5:
A Dark Gallery).

The speaker is Mephistopheles.

"I have too much backstory" — Bryan Cranston, 2012

Or not enough.

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