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Post by Reefs on Jul 21, 2020 22:52:33 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Sept 17, 2020 21:18:03 GMT -5
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Post by inavalan on Sept 17, 2020 22:09:57 GMT -5
It seems that the authors are guilty of the same thing: under the pretext of warning us, they point the finger at those they dislike. Same manipulation. Thanks, but no thanks. |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Sept 25, 2020 21:34:02 GMT -5
Fred Alan Wolf from Istanbul, Turkey. Trying to explain how matter is created, but why it is an illusion. Interesting, but you probably will not understand it.
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Post by Reefs on Oct 5, 2020 22:11:25 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Oct 6, 2020 7:14:24 GMT -5
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats. I chanced on this but do not have time to look at it now. The beginning film is a pattern of Penrose tiles, invented by physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose. Looks exceptionally interesting. (If you look at the pattern, it is formed from just two differently shaped pieces).
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Oct 8, 2020 6:57:11 GMT -5
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats. I chanced on this but do not have time to look at it now. The beginning film is a pattern of Penrose tiles, invented by physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose. Looks exceptionally interesting. (If you look at the pattern, it is formed from just two differently shaped pieces). Announced after posting this, two days ago, Roger Penrose (with two others) wins the Nobel prize in physics for his work on black holes. (Roger's Penrose tiles are mentioned in the article). www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02764-w |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Oct 21, 2020 16:01:09 GMT -5
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Post by Reefs on Jan 1, 2021 13:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by Reefs on Jul 6, 2021 8:49:53 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 15, 2021 15:34:57 GMT -5
Pre-TED Talks, but I thought pretty interesting, The Mandelbrot Set and fractals, mostly by the creator himself. George Lucas said after making Return of the Jedi he had to wait for technology to progress before he could make the next Star Wars trilogy. He had to wait for computer generated worlds to become as realistic as filming the world itself, and in fact his own company was the forefront of the technology. Why is it so effective? Because it's based on fractals, perfect models of the world. (This is not discussed in the video, just past information).
This is a brief story of how fractals were developed.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 15, 2021 16:25:25 GMT -5
This is a cool video. As an aside it describes how we see stuff. There isn't stuff, everything consists of fields.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 15, 2021 16:35:07 GMT -5
This guy is an expert on perception. "Even this TED is just in your head".
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Post by lolly on Jul 16, 2021 6:57:08 GMT -5
I'm just bouncing off the Mandelbrot video because mathematics, need I say more?
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 16, 2021 8:46:13 GMT -5
I'm just bouncing off the Mandelbrot video because mathematics, need I say more?
On the old Beliefnet there was a group of us who posted pretty regularly on the philosophy section. There was a guy named Blu who pointed out periodically that there wasn't such a thing as a 2, in the natural world. Nobody could ever refute this. But there was a famous physicist of the last century (his name escapes me) who also pointed out that it was a curious phenomenon that numbers, not existing in and of themselves, that is, if they didn't, were so useful in describing the world and as a tool in the world. And then there is another physicist, Max Tegmark, who maintains that the universe is made from numbers, he's written a very fascinating book on it. Fractals seem to be a kind of link between these two views. |
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