Increase your sense of wonder. (Author of 50 books & 800 patents. Yale Ph.D.) "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." ~NY Times
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Ask me anything.
I will be happy to answer some of your questions, and will try to reply to a portion of your questions below in the coming days.
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"Johann Sebastian Bach had two wives and a total of 20 children. Sadly, only half of those children survived to adulthood. But of those 10, four became notable composers." Source: tinyurl.com/2p9un7ar
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→ Which would make you happier?
a) You tweet something so profound and beautiful that you gain one million followers within a week.
b) Whenever you want, your nighttime dreams become hyper-realistic and under your control, allowing you unfettered passion, adventure, and bliss.
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“The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe... And all we ask is to be able to re-create the pattern... to bring it back to earth.”
- Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor, 2009
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Civilizational speed-run (animation below). Blueprint of the West.
Proof → concrete → steam → silicon → stars
Next video suggestion: Song China to the Treasure Fleets: then the pause. Compass, gunpowder, movable type, the biggest navy on Earth… then the ships are burned.
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Consider a number that consists of the decimal digits of pi, in reverse order. A portion of "backwards pi" is show in the figure. It has the same digits as pi, but they go forever to the left instead of the right.
→ Is "backwards pi" a real number?
(Thanks to @ztwiig for providing this idea.)
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"Playing God." Lizard Disruption. Cells that Remember the Lizard.
How cell collectives can recover a target morphology under perturbation. Cells cooperatively compute a body plan, can get stuck in defective shapes, and can be helped out of those traps.
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Mechanical models. Distributions. Statistics.
“Microscopic randomness” yields predictable macroscopic patterns. Math and physics in action.
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Mathematics. π.
Strange math secret discovered regarding Pi. The truth will set you free.
(Meme circulating widely on the Web.)
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Math. Pattern formation. Rules. Emergence.
The Awakening.
By Etienne Jacob, @etiennejcb, Source: bleuje.com, Used with permission. necessary-disorder.tumblr.co…
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"This is really what keeps me in the math game—the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods."
—Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament, 2009
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Mathematics.
The Woman, the Finger, the Circle: A Math Puzzle That Will Make You Question Everything.
"Can a circle have a radius of zero?"
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Journey through 12 dimensions to warp your mind: 1D 2D 3D 4D 5D 6D 7D 8D 9D 10D 11D 12D. Math, physics, space, and beyond.
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Math.
I first tweeted this image in 2020. A tiny percent sign that makes mathematicians grin and everyone else frown. Guaranteed to produce equal numbers of smiles and sighs.
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Math. The first few known e-primes.
An e-prime is a prime number appearing in the decimal expansion of e. Info: tinyurl.com/3hw4u99u
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