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