Humor, Mathematics, Science, Theology

Now, the above equation draws a ‘heart’.  Imagine now that the top of the heart is the Event Horizon and there’s a 22 degree acceleration of star clusters toward the bottom point of the heart.  It may be constructed with the circles of different sizes to show steeper angles which are more represented in ‘real’ spacetime.  Just a thought.  Oh and the other 3 circled model below, a ‘Manage’ a Troix’, has less definition of the heart, more stress, and might just take a lot of iterations to get ‘used’ to it.  Well it may work for many.

Here’s something from Revelations 22:14-15  from C. Thomson’s Bible ‘Happy they who perform his commandments that they may have access to the tree of life and enter by the gates into the city: but without are the dogs and the sorcerers and the prostitutes and the murderers and the idolators and every one who loveth and practiseth falsehood.’

Compare to the New International: ‘Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.’

Thomson makes more sense, is real.  Imagine that after the ‘Living Constitutionalists’ get their way with the ‘inspired writing of the constitution’, the ‘Living Bible’ will be retranslated so ‘washing robes’ is just doing some house work… like dusting or vacuuming and then everything is ok…. Thomson finds the commandments from the original, harkening back to the OLD TESTAMENT, making Thomson’s translation relevant and part of the ‘Fulfillment of the scriptures’ of which Jesus spoke.  

Words do matter.  Happy be your Valentine.

scienceisbeauty:

Love with mathematics is more fun!

Source: Making Love, Fun math art (pictures) - benice equation

:) <3

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Medicine, Environment, History, Humor, Theology, Science

My point here is that nature still has its forbidden ‘fruits’, or animals, or people, or lifestyles, or philosophies.  They are self-sustaining only and wish to ensnare others for some ritual of ‘selfishness’, and might be in addition to the evil we of faith acknowledge in ‘deceivers’, to that of those who practice self serving ‘pride’.

Here’s where I branch away from a lot of holy rollers who might tell us that ‘these are going to be punished with Hell-fire’.  Well maybe not; they will remain like rocks on the shore of an unlit stormy coast as very secure… just a danger.  To be avoided.

 Which reminds me of a Ben Franklin story… he having made a perilous voyage across the Atlantic and in a storm barely missed an outcropping of deadly rocks, was known to have said, ‘If I were a Catholic, I might have given a large sum in the name of some saint who protects those on the sea, but since I’m not, I think I’ll put my money in a light-house.’  Which goes to the options we have at confronting danger, and helping others to avoid it.  Frankly the ‘Hell-fire’ approach presents a false sense of security or absurd in the case of the rocks.

And then there is another story here in my town, where a short lived Environmental Officer of Palm Beach County was quoted in a Winter newspaper ‘Don’t breath the air along the beach.’  Not a welcome warning for tourist-seeking businesses along the beach.  Yes, he was damned into silence.  It did awaken my curiosity and I learned during my course in Geomarine Chemistry that ‘Red Tide’ dinoflagalates (sp) produce a protective saxotocin neurotoxin which can become airborne and affects the muscles around the lungs and perhaps within the lungs to ‘stop your ability to breathe’.  Now Red Tide thrives on all the nutrients we as humans pump into the ‘infinite’ (354 million cubic miles) of salt water, and have no qualms.  However ‘pollution’ occurs when the local waters cannot ‘handle’ what foreign substances are being impressed upon them. Since there’s no great hurricane occurring all the time, mixing of shoreline waters and those a mile or so offshore does not occur, hence ‘POLLUTION’ dumbass.

But Dinoflagelates only put out the neurotoxin when threatened, and they are threatened when all the pesticides, selecticides, herbicides (all human suicides) are washed into the shore waters by rainfall.  So it was that Winter season of tourist nirvana of golfing and flowering gardens and agriculture in plastic mulch with poison dajeure here in South Florida.  So perhaps the sacrifice of that one Environmental Operative, awakened peoples consciousness to poisoning themselves as it  hasn’t occurred in over ten years.  Or just newer more powerful, but shorter lived chemical poisons are being used… Only your Chemical Poison Company knows for sure.

Moral: Cut it out… the poison stuff, or I’m going to buy you a pair of these birds to play with.

biomedicalephemera:

Pitohui variable (now Pitohui kirhocephalus) - The Variable Pitohui

Though all pitohuis have been found to have at least some level of toxin in them, the variable pitohui and hooded pitohui have by far the highest and most consistent levels of it, both in their bodies and throughout their feathers.

The toxins carried by the pitohuis aren’t actually produced by them - like the Columbian poison dart frog, they acquire the toxin from their food sources. Actually, the chemical makeup of their toxin is almost identical to that of the poison dart frogs. They secrete neurotoxic alkaloid compounds known as batrachotoxins. These toxins are lipophilic, and can permeate unbroken skin. They bind to nerve cells, and basically “break” them - they open up the sodium channels in the cells (permanently depolarizing them) so that the nerves can no longer fire, and a flaccid paralysis ensues.

Bizarrely, the tetrodotoxin of the pufferfish may be a possible “treatment” for batrachotoxin-induced paralysis. Tetrodotoxin is non-competitive with batrachotoxin (meaning it wouldn’t be trying to bind to the same part of the cell, and wouldn’t have to remove the batrachotoxin first), and causes an extreme tetanic (stiff) paralysis, because it causes nerve cells to enter a state where they’re permanently firing and can’t stop.

Well, toxin or not, no deaths due to the pitohui have ever been recorded. The Papuan natives see pitohuis as “rubbish birds” because of their toxins, and avoid hunting them. Surely a few natives or explorers have died eating them in the past, but they aren’t an active threat to anyone.

The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands. R. Bowdler Sharpe and John Gould, 1875-1888.

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Mathematics, Humor, History

The difference of ‘who you are’ and ‘what your best friend thinks of you’ is a vastly important and not easily appreciated or acquired distinction, dare I say ‘distribution’.

Without reading this book, I’m in tuned to its significance.  After all, from Paul Dirac’s mouth I heard ‘Show it mathematically and it will be so.’ And it is not that I wish to guide or push someone in a favored direction which I do not believe in or feel is true, but to express something with the given facts in such a way as to make it as precise as is possible to the current ‘State of Affairs’ (Wittgenstein) is a memory-worthy endeavor.

I added ‘Humor’ as part of this because humor seems to be the greatest facilitator of ambiguous certainty.  Bazinga

isomorphismes:

Leonardo da Vinci’s ability to embrace uncertainty, ambiguity, and paradox was a critical characteristic of his genius. —J Michael Gelb

Say you want to use a mathematical metaphor, but you don’t want to be really precise. Here are some ways to do that:

• Tack a +ε onto the end of an equation.
• Use bounds (“I expect to make less than a trillion dollars over my lifetime and more than $0.”)
• Speak about a general class without specifying which member of the class you’re talking about. (The members all share some property like, being feminists, without necessarily having other properties like, being women or being angry.)
• Use fuzzy logic (the ∈ membership relation gets a percent attached to it: “I 30%-belong-to the class of feminists | vegetarians | successful people.”).
• Use a specific probability distribution like Gaussian, Cauchy, Weibull.
• Use a tempered distribution a.k.a. a Schwartz function.

Tempered distributions are my favourite way of thinking mathematically imprecisely.

Tempered distributions have exact upper and lower bounds but an inexact mean and variance. T.D.’s also shoot down very fast (like exp{−x²} the gaussian) which makes them tractable.

For example I can talk about the temperature in the room (there is not just one temperature since there are several moles of air molecules in the room), the position of a quantum particle, my fuzzy inclusion in the set of vegetarians, my confidence level in a business forecast, ….. with a definite, imprecise meaning.

Classroom mathematics usually involves precise formulas but the level of generality achieved by 20th century mathematicians allows us to talk about a cobordism between two things without knowing everything precisely about them.

It’s funny; the more advanced and general the mathematics, the more casual it can become. Like stingy stickler things that build up to a chummy, whatever-it’s-all-good.

Our knowledge of the world is not only piecemeal, but also vague and imprecise. To link mathematics to our conceptions of the real world, therefore, requires imprecision.

I want the option of thinking about my life, commerce, the natural world, art, and ideas using manifolds, metrics, functors, topological connections, lattices, orthogonality, linear spans, categories, geometry, and any other metaphor, if I wish.

Theology, Science, Mathematics

‘The Fear of The Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom’  Proverbs 1:7 by Solomon, son of David (1000-700BCE).  Thomson’s Bible … Intl. replaces ‘Knowledge’ for ‘Wisdom’.  Thomson (Secretary of the Constitution) also adds ‘Piety Towards God is the Beginning of Discernment’, before he admonishes like the Intl. with ‘But the Wicked Despise Wisdom and Instruction.’

The second part of the Proverb addresses much of how we instruct our children. If they are taught early that there is a God and something much higher, who loves us, but wishes us to treat eachother as we would be treated, then they will act with increasing ‘Discernment’.  I see often that without a introduction to God, children behave as they are treated, and often by their peers, or older children, it can be cruel and dangerous, thoughtless and reckless.  Even these things can happen, but there seems to be some grace as when God is shown as a loving guide.

This curve, as steeply asymptotic or linear, I do not know.  New ideas, like embryos are fragile, and give mothers (or idea nurturers) a fear as they begin. It is as we get or are given great power and success in our progeny that we grow comfortable with the idea of God, fear diminishes and we, perhaps like the ancients, can have conversations, even dreams of incredible vision.  Perhaps too, with a greater understanding of just what God is or expects of us, this pushes our Wisdom, Knowledge,  and Understanding.

We can always pray for that guidance and grace.

ichrider:

jtotheizzoe:

Go on, look behind the curtain

Science, at its very essence.

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I agree with this for the most part. At the very least, understanding something allows you to deal with it rationally instead of through fear.