". . . this notion of ‘depth’ is an elusive one
even for a mathematician who can recognize it. . . ."
— G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
See Six-Set in this journal.
Monday, February 25, 2019
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Code Rain
See 031105-code in this journal, the Wachowskis
at Wikipedia, and The Omega Matrix in this journal.
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Austrian Wins Kyoto Prize (Revisited)
For the title, see Schwarzenegger and "Clockwork Orange"
in the June 2005 post "All in the Timing."
Related music — Taps for Donen —
Donen reportedly died on Thursday.
See this journal on that day for a related
New York Times meditation.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
Frenkel on “the Rashomon Effect”
Earlier in Frenkel's above opinion piece —
"What this research implies is that we are not just hearing
different 'stories' about the electron, one of which may be
true. Rather, there is one true story, but it has many facets,
seemingly in contradiction, just like in 'Rashomon.'
There is really no escape from the mysterious — some
might say, mystical — nature of the quantum world."
See also a recent New Yorker version of the fashionable cocktail-party
phrase "the Rashomon effect."
For a different approach to the dictum "there is one true story, but
it has many facets," see . . .
"Read something that means something."
— New Yorker motto
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Monday, February 18, 2019
The Joy of Six
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See also the previous post.
I prefer the work of Josefine Lyche on the smallest perfect number/universe.
Context —
Lyche's Lynx760 installations and Vigeland's nearby Norwegian clusterfuck.
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Quantum Choreography
In the beginning of the 1954 film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,"
Adam, oldest of the brothers, is paired with Milly. The problem then is
to find brides for Adam's six brothers.
Above is a video illustration, published on Aug. 12, 2016, of the six couples.
Matching them involves some choreography.
See also this journal on Aug. 12, 2016 — "Dustbucket Physics" —
"… through the proposition machine of quantum mechanics
comes pregeometry; pregeometry makes geometry;
geometry gives rise to matter and the physical laws
and constants of the universe."
— Harvard professor Peter Galison,
defender of the faith of Scientism
For a different sort of quantum "proposition machine," see posts tagged
Dirac and Geometry.
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