Life & Poetry & Sprituality Entropy | 25 Jul 2007
Raindrop…
This leaf, so complete in itself,
Is only part of the tree.
And this tree, so complete in itself,
Is only part of the forest.
And the forest runs down from the hill to the sea,
And the sea, so complete in itself,
Rests like a raindrop
In the hand of God.
-Ruskin Bond
Science & Thought Provoking Entropy | 23 Jul 2007
From the nanoworld to the universe — The worlds we measure using our infinite yardstick.
We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically compared.
Today, using the electron microscope [...]
Philosophy & Science Entropy | 23 Jul 2007
Einstein’s favorite scientist died an ardent Catholic.
by Liza Lentini
1 Galileo was sent to a Jesuit monastery to study medicine. But after four years he announced he’d found his calling: to be a monk. His father withdrew him—but not before Galileo joined the order, making him a defrocked priest for life.
2 Nicolaus Copernicus never wrote [...]
Mathematics & Philosophy & Science Entropy | 17 Jul 2007
Mathematicians solve 75-year-old mystery of infinite loop’s shape.
Mobius strip only has one side and one edge.
Ants would be able to walk on the Mobius strip on a single surface indefinitely since there is no edge in the direction of their movement. Just like what M.C. Escher depicted in his famous picture (shown on the right.)
Mobius [...]
Haruki Murakami at his jazz bar, Peter Cat, in Sendagaya, Tokyo, 1978.
I never had any intention of becoming a novelist — at least not until I turned 29. This is absolutely true.
I read a lot from the time I was a little kid, and I got so deeply into the worlds of the novels I [...]
Mathematics & Philosophy & Science Entropy | 05 Jul 2007
Why Beauty is Truth
By Ian Stewart – May 2nd, 2007
Soon after I was appointed to a lecturing position at the University of Warwick, in 1969, I was assigned a course on Galois Theory. This is a branch of algebra, mainly about how to solve equations, which came into being in the 19th century. This was [...]