Significance?

Alright, earlier I talked about Beitia’s Number, so now there is some important things to consider about it. First of all, 10 to the eighty-first power factorial is big. Really really really big. Take one million’s factorial, for example. (one million being 10 to the 6th power). You get 8.263931688 times 10 to the 5565788th [...]

Really really big numbers

I was doing a little web-surfing the other day and I came across some very large numbers, like Graham’s Number, Moser’s Number and Skewes’ Number. Now they [ominous, no?] say that these numbers are greater than the number of observable particles in the universe. Suppose that you associated a numbering order to the number of observable [...]

Subjective/Objective

After dropping the boys off at school this morning, I decided to take a morning coffee/smoke break outside before leaving for work. The thermometer on my car, as I was driving home, read 48 degrees. So there I am, sitting, smoking, watching the rain fall, sans coat or hat or even long sleeves. Then I [...]

The Vernal Equinox

I was thinking today (as it is the first day of spring) how we identify dates. The calendar day flips over every evening at midnight. This makes sense. Noon is midday, the halfway point, so we take twelve hours in either direction to determine the calendar day. But the equinoxes and solstices are determined by [...]

String theory and Symmetry

Okay, underlying most physical objects in their mathematical structure is some kind of symmetry. Certain things have a very evident symmetry, others do not. But (according to the mathematics of Lie groups) we can use mapping to find the underlying symmetry. A Lie group is a mathematical set that has a smooth manifold (that is, [...]

Come out with your hands up!

Sometimes we disagree

In response to dear Mr. Simone, I think we may be at cross purposes in our meanings of rhetoric. I can’t use this misunderstanding to attack him. I can’t use this ‘conversation’ to be intentionally obtuse. I can’t use my vitriolic nature as an excuse.
I must see the nature of this disagreement – with charity. I [...]

Ah, the Media Blitz

I really find it interesting, when there is a new movie coming out, the sheer volume of media blitz that accompanies it. And, as we live in the world, we are all subject to the hype. Lately, it has been the movie “300“. I see commercials for it on television, there is a billboard on [...]