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"It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter
From the tower, and to show I'm not mad:
I only slipped on the cake of soap of the air
And drowned in the bathtub of the world."
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
string theory
In the last few decades, string theory has emerged as the most promising candidate for a microscopic theory of gravity. And it is infinitely more ambitious than that: it attempts to provide a complete, unified, and consistent description of the fundamental structure of our universe. (For this reason it is sometimes, quite arrogantly, called a 'Theory of Everything').
The essential idea behind string theory is this: all of the different 'fundamental ' particles of the Standard Model are really just different manifestations of one basic object: a string. How can that be? Well, we would ordinarily picture an electron, for instance, as a point with no internal structure. A point cannot do anything but move. But, if string theory is correct, then under an extremely powerful 'microscope' we would realize that the electron is not really a point, but a tiny loop of string. A string can do something aside from moving--- it can oscillate in different ways. If it oscillates a certain way, then from a distance, unable to tell it is really a string, we see an electron. But if it oscillates some other way, well, then we call it a photon, or a quark, or a ... you get the idea. So, if string theory is correct, the entire world is made of strings!
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about string theory is that such a simple idea works--- it is possible to derive (an extension of) the Standard Model (which has been verified experimentally with incredible precision) from a theory of strings. But it should also be said that, to date, there is no direct experimental evidence that string theory itself is the correct description of Nature. This is mostly due to the fact that string theory is still under development. We know bits and pieces of it, but we do not yet see the whole picture, and we are therefore unable to make definite predictions.Posted by giri at 3:30 AM 1 comments
Talking 'melodious'
what goes wrong when i speak to him ...has it got to do with him .....
we talked about everything from war movies shakes spear , the high school literature reader to astrology today.
some thing makes me stutter for words breaks my tone ...makes my flow extremely unpleasant for myself .
my tongue just about twists badly every time...in spite of the subjects of talk having been of interest . i wondered and recapped my memoirs to find yet another out of the hat silly sounding reason ............. its got to do with the tone .......u know...u know .....the notes .. the music in the speech
what???
people i ve enjoyed talking to ....all seem to have melody ...(their musical interests ??? hmmmm... but they seemingly have a tone in tune with mine ..
..i don't know if it makes sense ...everybody does have a music of speech ..
well .......
...maybe its nothing ..maybe just b cos i always like to interrupt ........he would never let me do it ..
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Another kind of Mathematics
by Nichita Stãnescu (Romanian)
Another kind of Mathematics
We know that one times one is one,
but an unicorn times a pear
have no idea what it is.
We know that five minus four is one
but a cloud minus a sailboat
have no idea what it is.
We know that eight
divided by eight is one,
but a mountain divided by a goat
have no idea what it is.
We know that one plus one is two,
but me and you, oh,
we have no idea what it is.
Oh, but a comforter
times a rabbit
is a red-headed one of course,
a cabbage divided by a flag
is a pig,
a horse minus a street-car
is an angel,
a cauliflower plus an egg
is an astragalus.
Only you and me
multiplied and divided
added and substracted
remain the same...
Vanish from my mind!
Come back in my heart!
english translation by George Mustea
What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the fall of Athens, of Rome, a long pause will intervene, caused by the exhaustion of consciousness itself. Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naiveté, without which the arts can never begin again.
- The Trouble with Being Born, Emil Cioran
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
the monkey tale
....... was looking for the blog profile picture ..................
a friend suggested to have this...ha ha what to say ........
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