SQL Poetry

A distinguished panel of Judges at Red-Gate have decided that the limerick by Robert Tomlin …
…
Select Substring(Phone,1,3)
From authors as “Area For Me”
Where Contract<>0
and City=’Palo Alto’
Order by Contract,City

..is the winner.
As well as a prize of a book, he gets the Phil Factor ‘Crimes Against Poetry’ award.

Golden Ratio property

I came across a paper I wrote proving a cool pattern I found involving PHI=1.618... : (PHI^n + PHI^(n+1))^(1/(n+2))=PHI, for n>-2, for example: (1.618^2 + 1.618^3)^(1/4)=1.618; I Fracking love math

Metric system vs. FFF system

Metric system vs. FFF system - Length Firkin - Mass Fortnight- Time For example, the speed of light is about, 186,000 miles/second 299,792,486 meters per second And most importantly: 1.8026 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight

Mass, Energy, Inertia and Gravity

The dirty secret of why you are not quite as heavy as you think The kilogram is getting heavier, which means, correspondingly, that we are all getting ever so slightly lighter. The official kilogram, a small lump of platinum-iridium in a vault in Paris, has been slowly and somewhat mysteriously gaining weight over the course of its 137-year life. But because, philosophically speaking, the official kilogram always weighs a kilogram, the practical result is that everything else is apparently not as heavy as was thought. What people are taught in school about Mass, energy, inertia and gravity is probably good enough But even undergrad physicists aren't given the whole story. And it's because, when we focus on it, we really Do not understand the intricate complexity and relationship between these items.

An almost Prime day

Today, 1/3/13, is almost Prime. 1 is, well, 1 3 is Prime 13 is Prime 131 is Prime But, alas, 1313 is not Prime

Aliens scanning our planet

Life forms! You tiny little life forms! You precious little life forms! Where are you?

Bacteriophage

A Bacteriophage is a virus that injects its genomic material into a bacterium. Since we have lots of bacteria in our bodies (in the soil, water, etc.), it can alter that bacterium's genetic structure. This can be helpful in an evolutionary sense by helping transfer mutations between individuals and species.

Polar wandering or Polar shift has been happening since 2007. It is about 55-60 KM per year. This messes up the Van Allen Radiation belt protecting earth. A few large coronal mass ejections Could render this phone obsolete. A complete pole reversal would Be very "interesting". Match this up with the planetary alignment Happening in Dec. 2012 and maybe the Mayan's were right.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Alcubbiere on the HIGGs field

Need to rework the Alcubbiere drive on the Higgs field and compare to work done on EFE. Need a metric for Higgs field.

Planetary alignments- conjunction

Planetary alignments occurred in 1962, 1982 and 2000. The term alignment needs to be used lightly. There is a lot of space in three dimensions. It would be cool to just see the majority of planets in a "cluster", however. Bear in mind, a cluster would not really exist as the planets are at different distances.

Internet addiction or Evolution

In the news today is the topic of Internet addiction. Are they just now catching on? I have seen this for years. Not just Internet but Video Game addiction. Denial and Withdrawal is just like alcohol or other drugs.
However, isn't this just part of evolution of the human species. Not just cultural evolution or societal but "Darwinian". Those that can adapt and not be addicted will be more likely to to have functional relationships, reproduce and pass on the 'moderation' genes.

Fiscal Cliff and Vector Calculus

I think I'll have my vector calculus students model and calculate the gradient (Del f) and slope of the now looming fiscal cliff. I'm afraid few of us will be able to travel orthogonal to Del f and avoid it. We'll just have to find a unit vector as far off from Del f and travel that path.

Higgs field and Gravitational field

Could the Higgs field (HF) be equated with the gravitational field (GF)? This seems plausible since the Einstein Field Equations (EFE) Describe the curvature of space time an object with mass (given by The Higgs Boson) causes. Mass tells space how to curve, and the curvature tells mass how to move. If they can be equated (HF:=:GF), then the HF could be put in the form of f(x,y,z,t) and solved as EFE, a nonlinear system of partial differential equations, hard but possibly doable.

Black holes and the Higgs field

If the Higgs field breaks down in a black hole, then the oscillations
could not form Higgs Bosons and objects that enter the black hole
would lose their mass. They would then hover in what I will call
the NH-zone (No Higgs). This would keep the singularity from
forming and keep the problematic infinities out of General Relativity
calculations.

Entanglement and Black holes

We should entangle two photons, send one into a black hole, and then take a measurement in a lab of the other. This might give some information about the black hole or its action, or it might break the entanglement.

Speed of light and HIGGS field

The electromagnetic field gives rise to photons through its oscillations and the higgs Boson comes from oscillations in the higgs field. Do the two fields interact? Could the interaction give rise to the speed of light or is the speed of light dtermined by the electromagnetic field only?

Moving towards full time teaching

After 21 years of running my own business, I have been trying to move towards a full-time teaching position. I've been teaching as Adjunct Faculty since I was an undergraduate in college but for the last 3 years or so have been more consistent about it and teaching Single variable Calculus, Vector Calculus as well as statistics and other courses. Full-time positions are not readily available do to the economy but after looking into a seminar I might attent in May, an almost perfect full time faculty position presented itself. It would require relocating but it is worth looking into and possibly applying for. The key is I would want to retain some of my business clients and maintain the applications I have built for them.

Keeping Fresh-Percolation Theory

I'm able to keep fresh in my fields of math and physics by attending seminars and colloquia. A good friend just told me about a 3-day seminar in Advanced Percolation theory. I'm interested to see if there have been any advances in the use of Quantum Gravity and Quantum field theory in this area. Hope I can find time to go!

Cultural Evolution helps solve Protien Folding?

Evolution comes in many forms. The classic biological mutation and survivial of the fittist but also cultural/societal. Today's generation of kids are producing Gamers. Now whether they will procreate to produce more and better gamers or whether gaming skills will remain a learned process is unknown. However, gamers are employed to help countries hack computer systems, the military to work with UAV's but also science.

Here gamers solved in weeks what scientists had worked on for a decade.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393200,00.asp

http://fold.it/portal/

Ah. The digital world finds me

http://books.google.com/books/about/Differentiability_of_Lipschitz_continuou.html?id=-jyHNwAACAAJ

Are you sure? or for science nerds only

Two Hydrogen atoms walk into a bar and order drinks. One of them see's a pretty Oxygen atom and saunters over. Ms. Oxygen suggests they invite the other Hydrogen atom over and make some water (if you know what I mean). Just then an Iron atom comes in and see's his girl, Ms. Oxygen, with the two Hydrogen atoms. Furious, he pulls out a gun and starts shooting. When the smoke clears, one hydrogen atom is on the floor. His buddy, unhurt, kneels down and asks what happened. "He hit me and knocked off my electron, but I'll be okay", he said. Are you sure? asked his buddy. Yes, I'm Positive.

Joy of passing on knowledge

I love passing on knowledge. Calculus level II this summer is wonderful. Integration is much tougher than differentiation and learning Integration techniques, their beauty and showing how to generalize is elating. Especially when it is something you have figured out and it's not just something out of the book. Passing on your own discoveries.
The more abstract technique of evening determining if an Integral exists (convergence/divergence) is wonderful in its pureness so you don't waste time trying to find an Integeration technique when the Integral is not going to exist anyway.

Vector calculus in the fall. Can't wait!

Smooth and Non-Smooth-Quantum Gravity

Numbers are non-smooth, many functions are; The Quantum world is non-smooth, General Relativity is. A correlative concept in the making. A start for Quantum Gravity?

Study why non-smooth numbers can lead to smooth functions and maybe we'll have a path to how non-smooth Quantum Mechanics can lead to smooth General Relativity.

Chaotic functions and Deterministic function interaction

Using the movie Sliding Doors as an example we see sensitivity to initial conditions, Chaos. In each trajectory of life, the Chaotic conditions cause different interactions with the world around the person. Now consider everything as a function (everybody) with a trajectory. In one situation the initial function may interact with another function's trajectory or not. If it does, it changes the trajectory of that other function (person.) In other words, one trajectory of the Chaotic function with one set of intial conditions may cause it "bump" into the another function's trajectory (an interaction with a person) and cause it to change from it's "normal"or deterministic behavior. The question in my mind is this. Given the function space of deterministic functions, if we include in this space a Chaotic function and build a rule for the interaction of the Chaotic function with a deterministic function, what happens after x amountof time to the function space and the functions in that space?

Particle Smashing

When we smash particles together in an accelerator their local time is slowed down by an extreme amount right before the smash. When they hit they return to our local time. The particle has not aged much but in it's reference frame, we have aged. How are the resulting particles we see affected by this?

Advice for men of a certain age

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.-Ghandi

Heat and Movement

Nothing is ever completely still. When atoms move or particles jiggle, they carry enerygy. The faster, the more energy. Combine all the energy of atoms and molecules in movement and we have what we call heat.

If we ever reached absolue zero for an object, it would be perfectly still. no time would pass for it. Likewise, if something were perfectly still, it would have no heat and no time would pass.

If everything in the universe stopped moving at all, we would never know because everything would be frozen still and all time would stop.

We are not our parents and we are not our children

I once read that if you fill a child's cup (their mind), then they will not have
room for additional "potentially bad" things. In other words, teach your
children all they need to know.

I think a more realistic approach is this:

You fill a child's cup partially (the amount will vary by parents)
They, as people, and experiences in their lives will fill it the rest of the way.
Why we are human, not perfect, not our parents, and we are not them determined
by what they fill it with. It may be the same "liquid" we used, it may be different, it may mix well, it may not. They may pour some out and add something new. Things can also
be complicated by the fact that the cup may be cracked from the start or crack
in response to what it added.

Just a thought.

Quick Thought-Numbers as Objects

I'll hopefully have time to think more about this later but I want to toss
it out now.

What if we consider numbers as Objects. What I mean by this is the number
itself has Properties (things that define/control it) and Methods (things it can do-operations?)

We can already define, for example, a number system in this way. Take the Integers.
Just to list a few.

Integers
Properties
Positive
Negative
Contain Zero

Methods
Add
Subtract
Commute

This is a limited subset but what if we did the same thing with numbers themselves?
Could this help us get rid of anomolies such as division by zero?

Take the number 12
A Property might inlude
Made up of 12 Unit objects

Methods might include
FindOpposite
FindPrimeFactors
FindDecimalRepresentationByLimit


If we combine this with say the number 0 and use it's method, FindDecimalRepresentationByLimit, then if we took the Object 12 and divided it by
by the Object 0 using FindDecimalRepresentationByLimit we might be able to define an answer.
As opposed to "not defined."

This is not well thought out but I thought I'd toss it out to help remind me to investigate
the idea later.

Who knows, maybe it will help with the pattern of primes or irrational numbers like PI.

Just a thought

E8 - SU(11,3) - Beauty in the Universe?

This is an E8 principal bundle, with connection, over a four dimensional base manifoldthis is an E8 principal bundle, with connection, over a four dimensional base manifold

PI in the Prime of it's Life

Conjecture: Every Prime Number occurs in the digits of PI.
Conjecture: Find the Pattern of Primes in PI and you find the Pattern of Primes in the Real Number System.

Side examination: for a circle C=2 x PI x r or r=C/(2 x PI). Choose a C such that r is a Prime. What do the circles generated from these look like relative to each other. Can this help find the pattern visually?

Creating a Numeric Palindrome

Start with a number
Reverse the digits and add that to the original number
If the result is not a palindrome, keep adding to the current sum the reversed digits of your original number.
You will eventually end up with a palindrome.

Ex. Start with 428
Reverse these to get 824 and add to the original (428+824) to get 1252
Add 824 to 1252 and get an answer.
Repeat adding 824 to each sum. You will eventually get a palindrome.
1252+824=2076
2076+824=2900
2900+824=3724
3724+824=4548
4548+824=5372
5372+824=6196
6196+824=7020
7020+824=7844
7844+824=8668 =Palindrome!

Other Galaxies and Life

So we have peered in to the depths of the universe and seen Galaxies that are around 13.1 Billion years old (13.1 Billion light years away.) What that means is that the light we are now seeing took 13.1 Billion years to reach us. We are seeing that Galaxy at its early stages. I wonder what the Galaxy actually looks like now? How many "suns" have formed, planets formed; if any life has appeared.

Our Galaxy is about 13.2 Billion years old. That means that if one of those other very old Galaxies formed a solar system with life like ours, they may now be looking out in to the universe and seeing the Milky Way Galaxy and seeing "us" as we were 13.2 Billion years ago. They would be seeing a Galaxy that was just forming. No earth existed at that point. (Earth is only 4-5 Billion years old.) So the Galaxy we are seeing, may have someone sitting at their computer, wondering what our Galaxy looks like now.

But we cannot communicate. There is me, wondering what the 13.1 Billion year old distance Galaxy looks like and contains today. And there is that Galaxy, 13.1 Billion light years away, possibly with a person wondering what's going on in the Milky Way. We can't communicate in our life time or even in the life time of our solar system. It is even possible that that distant Galaxy no longer exists. We would not know for another 13 Billion years.

It's also possible, that within our Galaxy or the other one, a solar system formed, planets formed, life formed, flourished and died out; all with no-one else (us for example) every being aware. Here or there a planet could have formed life that became technologically advanced; even maybe a million years more so than we are now and then died out when their sun went supernova or died out. If that happened between 7 and 8 Billion years ago, we would have no idea. And the planet(s) on which that life flourished may not even be around anymore to be discovered.

This could also be taking place (or have taken place) in that distant Galaxy 13.1 Billion light years away. How small we are and incapable of really finding out much about the existence of things outside our tiny realm in time and distance.

Not to diminish science and our attempts to try. It's fun. But we are such a simple but complex thing trying to derive (and actually thinking we can) a theory of everything. If it is possible through, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology to at least think we understand everything; some other culture on a long dead planet in our solar system or in a Galaxy 13.1 Billion light years away, may have already been there, done that and dissapeared.

Good luck to us and to the possible inhabitants of a possible planet in the Galaxy 13.1 Billion light years away. I hope their Large Hadron Collider is doing better than ours.
I hope my possible doppleganger in that Galaxy can explain his thoughts better than me.
In a few years, the atoms of my thoughts will be spread out. The atoms of energy in which I am now typing my thoughts will be dispersed in a few years as well; unable to be reassembled, never to be heard again. Never heard by a curious person, typing at their computer on some other planet, that has developed life, after ours has died out.

I love that our brains can imagine and comprehend what they can!