♫ "Good lookin', so refined . . . ."
See also April 19, 2003.
Sunday, August 20, 2023
The Big Apple Song
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Big Apple
“…the nonlinear characterization of Billy Pilgrim
emphasizes that he is not simply an established
identity who undergoes a series of changes but
all the different things he is at different times.”
This suggests that the above structure
be viewed as illustrating not eight parts
but rather 8! = 40,320 parts.
"The Cardinal seemed a little preoccupied today."
The New Yorker , May 13, 2002
See also a note of May 14 , 2002.
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Narrative
In memory of weather buff Stephen Fybish,
who reportedly died at 80 on August 30.
The Eye of Harvey meets the Eye of Shangri-La —
Today's New York Times on Fybish —
"Winter was his favorite season. He liked to taste the snow,
'since that’s one of the purer forms of water that we’re likely
to encounter here in the Big Apple,' he said."
— Sam Roberts
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
Space, Time, Gravity
Or: An Apple for Marcela
Scene from the college class Astronomy 101 in "Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen" (June 24, 2009) —
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Professor— "Space. Time. Gravity. " (Bites apple, drops it and kicks it to students.) Coed (catching apple)— "Thank you." Professor to coed— "Finish that for me." Professor to students—
"We're going on a journey together, you and I, today. |
See also Big Apple in this journal as well as a film by the artist from
the "nubile" link above…
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Sunday, December 20, 2015
Sunday, April 1, 2012
The Palpatine Dimension
A physics quote relayed at Peter Woit's weblog today—
"The relation between 4D N=4 SYM and the 6D (2, 0) theory
is just like that between Darth Vader and the Emperor.
You see Darth Vader and you think 'Isn’t he just great?
How can anyone be greater than that? No way.'
Then you meet the Emperor."
Some related material from this weblog—
(See Big Apple and Columbia Film Theory)
The Meno Embedding:
Some related material from the Web—
See also uses of the word triality in mathematics. For instance…
A discussion of triality by Edward Witten—
Triality is in some sense the last of the exceptional isomorphisms,
and the role of triality for n = 6 thus makes it plausible that n = 6
is the maximum dimension for superconformal symmetry,
though I will not give a proof here.
— "Conformal Field Theory in Four and Six Dimensions"
and a discussion by Peter J. Cameron—
There are exactly two non-isomorphic ways
to partition the 4-subsets of a 9-set
into nine copies of AG( 3,2).
Both admit 2-transitive groups.
— "The Klein Quadric and Triality"
Exercise: Is Witten's triality related to Cameron's?
(For some historical background, see the triality link from above
and Cameron's Klein Correspondence and Triality.)
Cameron applies his triality to the pure geometry of a 9-set.
For a 9-set viewed in the context of physics, see A Beginning—
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From MIT Commencement Day, 2011— A symbol related to Apollo, to nine, and to "nothing"— A minimalist favicon—
This miniature 3×3 square— |
Happy April 1.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Khora as Synchronicity
A search for khora + tao yields a paper on Derrida—
A check of the above date— Nov. 18, 2010— yields…
| Thursday, November 18, 2010
m759 @ 8:02 AM
Peter Woit has a post on Scientific American 's new Garrett Lisi article, "A Geometric Theory of Everything." The Scientific American subtitle is "Deep down, the particles and forces of the universe are a manifestation of exquisite geometry." See also Rhetoric (Nov. 4, 2010) and Exquisite Geometries (May 19, 2009). |
Related material on the temptation of physics
for a pure mathematician—
This morning's post on khora and Cardinal Manning, and,
from Hawking's birthday this year, Big Apple.
Within this post, by leading us to the apple,
Derrida as usual plays the role of Serpent.
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