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Posted on: The Ripple Effect
at 11/10/2009 10:31pm

I thought this up and wanted to post it here for feeback. Thought maybe it would inspire some of you.

The Ripple ... more(+)

I thought this up and wanted to post it here for feeback. Thought maybe it would inspire some of you.

The Ripple Effect
Topic: Movie Ideas

The universe has a tendency to obey the second law of thermodynamics, or in laymen’s terms move towards chaos. Think about how quickly you could make a mess in your kitchen, and compare that to how long it will take to clean. The universe at every level of size seeks chaos. However, despite this brutal truth, the universe itself is actually comprised mainly of two very fundamental shapes.

The first of these shapes is the sphere. From atoms to planets to stars to the very shape of our universe, we can find spheres forming in everything. Understanding why spheres occur so naturally is a simple concept and takes thinking no further than the strength of an arch or the shape of a bubble. It is the most energetically efficient structure.

The second of these shapes is the disc. From electron fields to the rings around planets, to the shape of the solar system and the makeup of entire galaxies, discs also have a distinct constancy. Discs can be described as the sphere’s two-dimensional equivalent.

And the striking constant between these two fundamental forms is that pervasive irrationality; the number pi. Human beings struggled from the dawn of intelligence to define pi’s exact value, or to at least find some pattern within it. However, in the late nineteenth century, the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann proved that pi was a transcendental number and no algebraic connotation would ever exist. As of the early 21st century, pi had been calculated to approximately two and a half trillion digits and any talk of patterns in pi were ignored.

However, human beings were foolish to dismiss patterns in pi to pseudoscience. Trillions of anything in the universe is, for the most part, insignificant. There are trillions upon trillions of atoms in just one of your fingernails. And it was only when humans expanded their knowledge of pi exponentially that what once seemed ridiculous suddenly began to explain everything.

.. Human beings were not uncovering the laws of physics through observation, but via determinative process.

Philosophers deemed the idea poetic justice. Pi is an infinite number and not surprisingly our own universe is infinite. Furthermore, pi is an irrational number, and like pi, our very existence is irrational. Why does the universe exist at all? They noted that pi comes from geometry and not algebra. Was it possible that something in pi caused the very universe to occur?

And that was when the Fault was discovered. The Fault was a mathematical phenomenon that would cause a ripple effect if ever put to experiment. Picture a rock being dropped in a lakebed, waves rippling out in all directions for as long as they travel uninterrupted. Humans realized that they had found the explanation to everything. They had found the cause of the universe.

What they didn’t plan for was the effect. And that was when human beings accelerated from mere mortals governed by the laws of physics, to gods with a universe of their own.

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Posted on: Pattern Searching
at 11/08/2009 1:49pm

What is that pseudoscience called where people search for patterns where they do not exist? (Like in pi or in static ... more(+)

What is that pseudoscience called where people search for patterns where they do not exist? (Like in pi or in static frequenecies, etc.) close(-)

Posted on: Collisions with the Sun
at 06/05/2009 12:22am

Just pondering some possible book ideas...

What would happen if an object the size of earth collided with the sun? ... more(+)

Just pondering some possible book ideas...

What would happen if an object the size of earth collided with the sun? Would we feel it?
What about an object the size of Jupiter?

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Posted on: Mathematician History Question
at 02/03/2009 5:38pm

Hey thanks for the help. One other physicist history question - who was it that first predicted all events have a ... more(+)

Hey thanks for the help. One other physicist history question - who was it that first predicted all events have a mathematical explanation? I'm pretty sure it was considerably earlier than LaPlace.
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Posted on: Mathematician History Question
at 02/02/2009 10:21pm

Real quick -- which mathematician predicted that if we knew the location of every particle and its momentum in the ... more(+)

Real quick -- which mathematician predicted that if we knew the location of every particle and its momentum in the universe, we could predict history for all to come? Archimedes? Descartes? I forget.
 
-and please no lectures on the uncertainty principal, i know all about it :)

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