#mathematics is omnipresent

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if we take the phrase "to be, or not to be", such that [to be] = B and not[to be] = B', in formal logic, we get B || B'  if B evaluates to true (and as its inverse, B' to false), then we get true or false, which evaluates to true (because one of the options is true - one OR the other)  on the other hand, if we have B && B' (to be and not to be), if B evaluates to true (and B' to false), we get true AND false, which evaluates to false (because to evaluate to true, we either require true && true or false && false; the two are different therefore not true)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Jane Eyre

A List of Beautiful Words used by Charlotte Brontë in "Jane Eyre"

Animosity - a strong feeling of dislike or hatred; ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility; an antagonistic attitude

Assimilates - to take into the mind and thoroughly understand

Boisterous - noisily turbulent

Ciphering - to use figures in a mathematical process

Circlet - a circular ornament

Deglutition - the act or process of swallowing

Destitute - lacking something needed or desirable

Ensnares - to take in or as if in a snare

Evince - to display clearly; reveal

Extirpate - to destroy completely

Inanition - the quality or state of being empty

Infinitude - the quality or state of being infinite

Inmost - deepest within

Kindling - easily combustible material for starting a fire

Miry - a troublesome or intractable situation

Objectionable - undesirable, offensive

Omnipresence - the quality or state of being omnipresent; ubiquity

Plume - a feather of a bird

Preternatural - existing outside of nature

Rigour - harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment

Sundered - to become parted, disunited, or severed

Superciliousness - coolly and patronizingly haughty

Unclouded - not covered by clouds; not darkened or obscured; clear

Vivacious - lively in temper, conduct, or spirit; sprightly

Wrought - worked into shape by artistry or effort

More: Word Lists

[folklovrr]

nature feels spencer reid

| spencer reid x fem!reader

| hello! my first post on tumblr. inspired by frank oceans song nature feels. but also like… kind of not. idunno!! minors please dni (18+)

| content warning: religious references, munch!spencer (😁) worship?!, making out, alludes to pinv.

Spencer Reid was an endlessly curious man. It generally didn’t matter what the subject was, he already knew about, and could be classified as an expert in the field.

He like to think of himself as a specialist in all things mathematics, chemistry, engineering, and you. At times like these, that last one became more of a weakness than a strength.

Sitting on the plane home, returning from an exhausting case, hearing the bass line from Derek’s headphones and the muffled sounds of Rossi and Hotch discussing something that could be anywhere from the case to his latest interaction with wife number nth, Spencer Reid couldn’t stop thinking about sleeping with you. You hid in the buzz of the engine, the smell of coffee leaking out of the jet’s small kitchen, taking him to the four walls of your shared apartment, where the smell was omnipresent.

Many people might compare you to a warm summers day, but he found that misrepresentative. You were much more comparable to a snowy christmas evening. It’s the time of year that everyone looks forward to, cookies and cakes and freshly cooked meals, things that were constantly filling your kitchen, love leaking from their extra chocolate chips. All year round, when christmas music plays, people are filled with joy and cheer, and he thinks this phenomenon is not unlike to that of your sounds, and when his memory so unhelpfully brings those to the forefront of his mind, he is filled with that same joy.

The familiar bump of the jets landing cut this train of thought, and as the team filed back to quantico, Spencer had never been more grateful for two things:

1. the fbi’s access to efficient travel - he thinks that if he was forced to sit in the metro waiting, the personification of himeros that was sitting eagerly in his heart ( and other parts of him that he was careful not to pay attention to at this time ) would grab him by the shoulders and force him under the need that he was drowning in.

2. the invention of internet and online communication - the influx of texts from that had ceased to deliver while he was in the sky all flooded in at once, giving him the idea that this missing business was not one sided.

| spence, hope you’re ok :( penny told me that case was tough. cant wait to see you

| I have missed you so much. cant stop thinking about you. text me when you land, love.

| come find me when you get home, doctor ;) i have a surprise for you!

It was in moments like these, when people showed even the slightest romantic fondness for him, that he was taken back to his bumbling college experiences with sex. A word that people danced around, but he researched thoroughly. Not for perverse reasons, as this form of interest in the female anatomy would hit him a bit later in life, but pure curiosity. Why did people enjoy? He could understand what the appeal was for men, but what made the experience enjoyable for the other sex?

These questions still plagued him to this day, even after extensive practical elements were added to his studies, with you being a very supportive test subject. Spencer explored what it was like to feel, and to find meaning through this thing that had become so, even though it sounds silly to say, sexualised in media, and to move past the physical elements (but he still appreciated those, greatly) and to find what philosophers spent eons theorising over, which the two of you seemed to have found so easily. Connection.

In the many nights he had spent tangled in your embrace, Spencer mused thoughts of the origins of humans, and as the quiet hymns of the night sung, he worshipped Apollo for having mercy on the split humans and reconstituting their forms, allowing them to find this physical bond, and their souls other half.

As the elevator at quantico rose to the BAU’s floor, the team had a quiet understanding amongst them that small talk was not necessary, and that conversations of weekend plans were trivial in comparison to the things the victims had been through.

After finishing up the, for lack of better words, ginormous pile of paperwork, Spencer was finally free to follow the light of your twin flame home. As he sits in the metro though, he is brought back to the disdain he holds for the public transportation system, and the distain for every passenger that gets of on a stop before his, slowing his journey. He wishes that access to the fbi’s vehicles was available off the clock, for boyfriends whose need for their girlfriends was eating them alive. How inconsiderate of them.

When the autonomic voice announced the station where you resided, so close yet so far, Spencer jumped out of his seat, himeros once again took control of his body, willing his muscles all the way home.

As the loved in door to your home creaked open, Spencer was guided by the candlelight and warm lamps through to the back garden, where the leaves and flowers of the cherry trees spread through the garden fall gracefully and surround a figure, who is gently swing back and forth on a tree swing. Spencer sees you, and wonders what if this is what Adam thought when he first saw Eve, and if he too felt so compelled to caress the slopes of her neck and pray at her divine altar.

The leaves under Spencer’s converse crunched, and alerted you to his presence. As you turned around, there was barely a split second before Spencer was on you, burrowing his face in the crook of your neck with his arms planted firmly around your waist.

“hi spence”, you whispered quietly into his hair, the glasses on the bridge of his nose digging into the skin of your neck. he began to plant soft kisses there, to exhausted to formulate a response. You nudged his chin with your shoulder, and his lips landed softly on yours, gentle kisses explaining things that words do no justice to.

As the night air became more humid around you, and fireflies surrounded the two of you, Spencer’s warm hands pushed the ankle length hem of your spring dress up your thighs, closer to your core. He kisses a pathway up your calf, up your thigh, towards the need in your centre, and ponders if god had made you for him.

Spencer thinks that he is fairly devoted to a number of things, like his work, or his academia, but the way he eats you out is oh so blasphemous. He circles and flicks and plunges just right, and as the cherry flowers fall in his hair, he looks like a debauched angel, with a sole mission of making you come on his tongue. he is devoted to it, and it’s his mission.

The way that you moan his name and pulse around his fingers turns him on more than things that are seen as generally sexually conductive for the male gender, and as you pull his roots and tighten your thighs around his head, he feels the satisfaction of your pleasure travel all the way to his climax, without being touched. Truly sinful Spencer Reid, truly Sinful.

As his mouth separates from your divinity, he thinks that the string of saliva that connects you is symbolic of every single thing that connects your physical elements to the emotional unison that you share. As the dirt digs into Spencer’s knees, and the thighs around his head loosen with satisfaction, He can’t help but compare you to the delicate cherry blossoms, and he sees your kindness and ineffable gentleness bloom around the garden.

You stand, and pull Spencer to his feet, and as he pushes you against the bark of the cherry tree, ready to connect again, just as Apollo and Adam and Eve and whoever else he had to thank for this intended, he can’t wait to feel your nature, to make love.

a/n thank you for reading!!! i know it’s rough, but yet i persevered and finished it. yay me 😛.

[germanpostwarmodern]

Together with DADA Concrete Art today is considered to most significant Swiss contribution to art history, represented by the quadriga Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, Verena Loewensberg and Camille Graeser. But although the life and work of each of the protagonists has been comprehensively researched and published, the actual history of the Concrete Avant-garde based in Zurich in all of its different ramifications has remained somewhat opaque. The director and journalist Thomas Haemmerli and journalist colleague Brigitte Ulmer used this blank space in Swiss art history as point of departure for a complete history of the Zurich Concretists and their complex environment. The result is „Circle! Square! Progress! - Zurich’s Concrete Avant-Garde. Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, Richard Paul Lohse and Their Times“, recently published by Scheidegger & Spiess. The book starts with a history of Concrete Art as coined by Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg and sheds light on the Zurich group’s forefathers and mothers, among them Georges Vantongerloo, Johannes Itten and Sophie Taeuber-Arp but also dedicated patrons like Leo Leuppi. Subsequently Zurich’s „Fantastic Four“, as the Haus Konstruktiv called them in a 2011 exhibition, are portrayed and contextualized in very concise dossiers that portray the artists in their entirety.

But what is particularly noteworthy and interesting is how the authors map the sources of inspiration as well as the network of people and places surrounding the Zurich artists: from mathematics, Bach’s „Art of Fugue“ to Twelve-Tone-Music the manifold influences are carved out and institutions like the Galerie des Eaux Vives, the Bel Etage or the Corso music club are portrayed as meeting points and party locations of the art scene. Beyond this the authors also discuss the afterlife of the artists as omnipresent decorations and players on the art market, an addendum that nicely concludes the book.

As a result „Circle! Square! Progress!“ Provides an equally complete and lively account of the Zurich Concretes’ history as well as their personal network and afterlife. A highly recommended and diverting piece of art history!

[sgiandubh]

The medium is the message

With a Droughtlander even more dry than we were used to, we still manage to get back to some inglorious basics. With even more drama and tattle - oh! - on the menu, I suppose this time it was my brain that refused somehow to process further details. And blissfully prompted me to a five-hour totally unplanned siesta: now my circadian rhythm is completely upside down - don't care.

In a nutshell: in these strange lands, no news is never good news, something I find extraordinary, to say the least. And if we have no news, we're making them, aren't we?

Digitalization and the omnipresence of Internet in our lives gave us a tremendous tool, readily available at the end of our fingertips. All it takes is a subscription and we're all turning, as by magic, into potential news outlets. As Spiderman once taught us, 'with great power comes great responsibility'. Something that should make us think twice. It doesn't always work. That is a shame.

That a very basic Internet basement troll suddenly proclaims and promotes herself as a celeb journo of sorts should be - and, thankfully, isn't - of no consequence to the world's balance. The fact that the crowd she attracts seems to live suspended to her every pronunciamiento is still as new and as mind-bogglingly pathetic to me as it was the very first time I saw it in print. With bias galore (I am being merciful, here) and no editorial policy whatsoever, other than me, me, me: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair, she somehow managed to maintain, for a very long time, a relevant presence. Ozymandias she ain't, though. Her repertoire is very limited, yet perfectly calibrated to a thirsty, easily entertained and uneducated mob.

That a compact group of desperate housewives suddenly found a daily interest in bashing every breath and every move of a (let's be fair) lesser known male celeb is, yet again, a thing of wonder. This time, it's all about camaraderie and endless fun, without giving a hoot about consequences. 'We keep it to ourselves'. I am rolling my eyes very hard at you, here: no, you don't, while knowing perfectly well it is taken into account by someone, somewhere. All you want is to find power in numbers, and when you fail to do so, you double down on vulgarity and silliness.

That an arrogant dimwit walks down the pixelated avenidas of these lands, asking the same question over and over and over again, simply makes me laugh and ask her (over and over and over again) in return: and you're still as stupid today as yesterday, right? But compared to the above, this is light (and poor) entertainment.

By now, I took the whole grand tour and sometimes I wonder what the hell I am doing here and why I am still around. In my world, such people exist (pretending the contrary would be a pious lie), but they come in more sophisticated and articulate varieties. These? Pfff, seriously? Amateur league.

If this was only about mathematically determining, with infinitesimal accuracy, if Desi loves Lucy and more, this whole hullaballoo would have been over for a long while, once the people here made up their minds one way or another. I know that. You know that. TPTB know that. Desi knows that, bless his heart. Lucy knows that (yes, even remote, dignified Lucy). With the talk of the town over, our virtual drones would patrol a consensual landscape of fanfic and biblical exegesis of Herself's voluminous (some would add cumbersome, oh the blasphemy!) body of work, with the gifted, very gifted sketch and the docile distribution of press releases thrown in the mix for good measure.

It's more than that and you all know it. As for me, I am here to bring some sanity, a sprinkle of empathy and that different angle this place missed.

Count on that. I am not going anywhere. Let me be the fly in your ointment. But be assured: never without good reason.

[renee-writer]

Lift up your eyes

"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold Who hath created these things, that bringth out their host by number: He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in power; not one faileth"( Isaiah 40:26)

Our text makes three majestic statements about the cosmos, each reflecting true scientific insight as well as the work of each person of the Divine Trinity. The omnipresent Father has "brought out" an infinite "host" of organized systems in the cosmos- galaxies, stars, planets, animals, and people. All are capable of description mathematically " by number", and thus all bear witness to their great Designer. Chance processes never generate organization or complexity, so that special creation by God is the only legitimate explanation for the "numbered" host of heaven.

The Son is the omniscient Word of information, description, and meaning. Every system in the cosmos is not only numbered, but named! That is, in the mind of its Creator it has a.function and has been coded to fulfill its purpose. The Second Law states that systems never code themselves but rather always tend to distort the information orginally programmed into them. Only an omniscient Creator could thus implement the divine purpose for every created entity.

Finally, the Holy Spirit is the omnipotent Energizer who activates and empowers every system. The Second Law says that energy becomes less available as time goea on, so only the Creator could provide the energy to activate the designed, programmed cosmos in the beginning.

When we finally look up and really "behold who hath created these things" we must see God the Creator- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Days of Praise

[entitycradle]

Future Anime Girl Gestalt

As a breakthrough in silicon nanostructure materials makes photonics and near-eye displays cheap, smart glasses become the new ubiquitous computers, replacing smartphones. The always-on display provides unique opportunities for advertisers, as does new machine learning-assisted ad targeting. In the new omnipresent augmented reality, ads become personalized, three-dimensional, interactive displays, emerging from blank rectangles in subway stations. You see your facebook friends conversing animatedly, drinking budweiser.

As smart glasses become increasingly necessary for modern life, brands are able to invade further into perceived reality. Cars shine luxuriously. The name and price of your coworker's smartwatch floats above it. Of course many modern advertisements no longer directly sell a product or service, but rather create and maintain brand identities. Large corporations advertise on everyday objects--the plate at your favorite restaurant reveals the name of a software company as you finish your food. Your brother's anger turns him super saiyan, reminding you of the new episodes. A poor neighborhood turns into an alien-inspired techno-organic nightmare.

Many companies use characters to perpetuate their brand. These characters can be personalized--the insurance company mascot that shows up on your car dashboard during a harrowing rush hour is your favorite color, features large, expressive eyes, and is covered in shaggy fur.

Of course, machine learning algorithms can be unpredictable. And ad agencies could not anticipate the omnivalent memetic power of...

...anime girls.

The algorithm customizes your pepsi soda into a fizzy anime slime girl. They customize the call to your healthcare provider to raise the pitch of the representative's voice and translate the audio to Japanese (your glasses display English subtitles). The missiles you see striking a city in Iran are ridden by pale, northrop grumman-labeled anime maids.

As more human agency is ceded to enormous, power-chugging processing centers, the connections between everyday occurrences and brand presence become more abstract. Every character on a show you're not paying attention to, every old shoe you own, every person you interact with, every grain of sand on the beach, every floater in your eye, is an anime girl.

As humans do, they adapt. Generation Glass becomes accustomed to experiencing two entirely foreign sets of sense-data: one, their local, mundane world, of humming processors and concrete and scraggly trees. The other, the networked world, where your entire visual field is painted in overlapping anime girls of various sizes and your auditory vestibular nerve is drowned in high-pitched giggling. Each girl represents some object--pomegranate, sunset, friends, love, death.

As global civilization gently deflates under the pressure of climate change post-2100, so does the capacity to manufacture complex electronics. Within the space of a generation, billions of people are reduced to creating facile, vapid illustrations of the moving, living anime girls they once knew as bigotry and tarmac. Pictures of anime girls are used to label street signs, mathematical concepts, genders, religious texts. Ironically, anime girls become more incorporated into the real world than they ever were in the Glass period, because they adorn real surfaces. A post-traumatic behavior develops, in which a person destroys objects bearing anime girl images in an attempt to, according to one individual, "let them out," or otherwise restore networked consensus reality.

Thousands of years pass. Peregrine sophists of the Fifth Yyrzoc clan uncover an underground concrete structure. In it are glyphs of a single, big-eyed, pale, skinny, large-breasted woman with bright blue hair, surrounded by female figures in blood-red uniforms who are collapsed on the ground. The sophists are able to decode this message and avoid what we would recognize as a nuclear waste storage facility. They theorize that the figures are ancient feminine gods of radiation and death. Several etchings and illustrations are published by a notable scriptorium. Years later they are largely forgotten.

[whatiwillsay]

I'm both a longtime Beyhive and a longtime Swiftie, so I'll chime in about the Billboard list

*very long*

Honestly, comparing Beyoncé to Taylor is a disservice to Bey. This woman has not only been highly relevant but has been thriving in the vinyl, CD, and digital eras, and she is still highly relevant in the streaming era. Sure, Bey doesn't pull as many streaming numbers as Taylor does, but she still is a streaming force. Chart positions and sales aren't even the metrics by which Billboard compiled this list. Here's what they've said in their article:

And we must also issue our obligatory reminder that unlike with our Year-End Charts, these Greatest Pop Stars are NOT mathematically determined by stats like chart position, streams or sales numbers. Those play a big part in our final rankings, of course — you can’t be one of the greatest pop stars of the century without great pop hits and great pop albums — but so do things like music videos, live performances and social media presence, and more intangible factors like cultural importance, industry influence and overall omnipresence. (And we’re measuring this over all 25 years of this century so far, so if you were only heard from at the beginning or the end of that period — or only had one or two big songs, albums or eras — that’s gonna significantly hinder your ranking here as well.)

She is the blueprint for most, if not all, pop stars of the mid- to late 00s, '10s, and '20s, and they've said so themselves. Not only that, several athletes, business owners, fashion designers, architects, producers, and even professional chefs have said that her work ethic, artistry, drive, and attention to details inspire them to do better. She's transformed the industry forever. She's the first artist (correct me if I'm wrong) who's done a visual album in the form of a music video for each song (B'Day in 2006) and one of the few artists who's done a concept film for an album (Lemonade in 2016 and Black Is King in 2020). In terms of music videos, Beyoncé is far ahead of Taylor, and since it's a criteria for Billboard's list, she's got an advantage. 

Beyoncé's the real trendsetter in music, while Taylor chases what's popular at the moment and makes it a theme for each album both in terms of music and visuals. Beyoncé's also THE most versatile music artist in the industry: her range goes from gospel to rap, from disco to rock, from pop to bluegrass, from R&B to Americana, from opera to reggae. She is an exceptional artist with a unique™ vocal talent that continues to improve with age. There are such things as prime Whitney, prime Celine, and prime Mariah, but there are no such things as prime Beyoncé. Besides that, Beyoncé's also credited as the inventor of "talk-singing," which all of the modern singers and rappers use as their primary technique in music. Even Kanye has said so.

Live performances are also a criteria, and I think it doesn't even need to be discussed. Beyoncé's regarded as one of the best performers of all time. I personally would even say that she is THE best performer of all time, but it's irrelevant to this discussion. She's the first female performer to ever do an all-stadium tour (Formation Tour in 2016); her Super Bowl HT show is widely regarded as the Top-3 of all time, along with Prince and MJ. She's popularized feminine dancing in the industry; before that, the girls were basically cheerleading and jumping around the stage.

In terms of social media presence, I think it could be quite debatable. There are several viral Tik Tok Beyoncé trends going on at the moment. There's a "Lose My Breath" trend (the song came out 20 years ago), there's a "Diva" trend (the song came out 16 years ago), there's a "16 Carriages" trend, and a trend for Trump's "Dance Party with Beyoncé," to name a few. Also, everything she does or doesn't do makes headlines or is heavily discussed in online spaces. For example, her wearing a silver dress with 613 color hair, making her "look white," made rounds for weeks online. Her playing her film in Is**** made a ton of online discussion, while Taylor has also played hers there, and I've barely seen mentions of it online (both of them had nothing to do with it and couldn't stop it, imo; they signed their contract with the distributor months before Oct. 7 happened). People called Beyoncé "genocide Barbie" for being present at the Kamala rally and said that she "made" Kelly Rowland wear an oversized suit so she'd look better even though Kelly has worn those suits for a long time AND she always looks incredible in them. Don't get me started on the whole Tik Tok conspiracies and "she knows" thing. Even the false rumors of her making an appearance at the DNC have made it to mainstream news channels. There's also a phrase "The Beyoncé of..." that exists. Undoubtedly, Taylor has an immense media presence, but unfortunately, it's mostly her being at Trav's games, pap walks, or someone making up baseless rumors about her that no one outside of the Swiftie circles and pop culture nerds care about. I don't think anything outside of her excessive jet usage or new album variants makes noise outside of those circles except when the new material comes out and then it's 2 weeks of deciphering the songs. I think Taylor needs this kind of media presence to thrive, while Beyoncé does not. Taylor is a very talented writer, which has gotten her such a big following, but at the same time, it's her marketing that has gotten us to this Taylormania point. She's actively cultivated a quite parasocial relationship between herself and the Swifties by inviting them to her house, saying that she needs them to feel good about herself (I'm paraphrasing), and leaving easter eggs about her relationships and personal life in her music and music videos. She hasn't established any boundaries with her own fanbase, and that's why it's starting to feel cult-like at times. While Beyhives were and still can be quite insufferable at times, she knew when to pull back and cut the majority of the toxicity from her fandom so it doesn't impact her own life. Also, it's worth noting that the main drive of Taylor's popularity is her relatability. Beyoncé's brand has never been about relatability; in fact, it's always been the opposite, and I don't know why people are complaining about it: she's always said that she comes from an affluent family and went to private school. Because of the current state of Taylor's fame, I'm going 50/50 on this one.

Then there's the cultural importance part. I think Beyoncé's also ahead of Taylor here. Beyoncé's music has always been political, and she's made a pivot into teaching her listeners about Black history. There are multiple college courses about her artistry and image. She's also the reason why music is now being released on Fridays. She's created that silver craze last year with her tour; this year it has been cowboy attire. Black country artists are finally getting a platform: Shaboozey's song is now the longest-running Billboard Hot 100 solo #1 song of all time, and Linda Martell (a Black country artist from the 60s) just got her first Grammy nomination, and it's in a rap category (I mean, c'mon). She's at a point in her career where she is honoring her heritage and giving platforms to Black artists in predominantly white spaces (house, country, and I'm assuming Act III is going to be some sort of rock fusion). Also, to put things into perspective, at 34 years old, Beyoncé gave us Lemonade while Taylor gave us TTPD. Both of them have been recording artists since they were 15-16, so I think this comparison is valid. Bey also has way more universally recognized hits than Taylor does. Although Beyoncé doesn't write her songs alone as Taylor sometimes does, she is a prolific songwriter in her own right (the topics of discussion in their music are also incredibly different). She's also an incredible producer. I've seen multiple songwriters and producers talk about her process and praise her for having an incredible ear. Listen to the instrumental version of some of her songs (I'd say that Single Ladies is one of the best and clearest examples) and compare it to the album version. Not only does she have an incredible ear for melodies, she's also been the vocal producer for every single one of her albums, including the first Destiny's Child album. Her music, music videos, live performances, presentation, vocals, musical production, fashion, incorporation of Black culture, hair and make-up choices, and live performance arrangements (Homecoming had like 20-30 samples) are what her cultural importance is. There are generations of pop stars that took notes from her, and there will be generations of pop stars that will reference those who were inspired by Beyoncé after she retires, and that's what makes her a truly important and impactful icon that she already is.

If Billboard has any integrity left, Beyoncé should be an indisputable #1 pick. Taylor being at #2 is also higher than I would expect. I'd place her in the Top 5 for sure, but #2 seems very generous.

thank you for writing this up!

[giankumar-blog1]

NON-DUALISM 

The philosophy of non-dualism is a fundamental concept in the Upanishads, the ancient texts of Hinduism that make up the Vedanta philosophy's theory referred to as 'Advait (not two)Vedanta (end of knowledge)'. According to Advait Vedanta, Brahman is the single authentic non-dual reality of all that exists, which unites the entire cosmos in unity and continuity. It is that universal force or power, which Quantum physics refers to as energy. Para Brahman is the highest creative energy principle we refer to as God. It is spaceless, timeless, limitless and eternal. Despite being the foundation of all one can experience, we cannot see it, which science today corroborates as formless energy waves.

Brahman and energy imply growth or expansion and are omnipotent and omnipresent. It refers to the highest cosmic principle and is also called absolute reality. Brahman appears to reflect what many religious traditions think of God when viewed as an all-pervading, complete presence. Nirguna Brahman is that supreme universal principle called "Parabrahman", contributing to sat-chit-anand (existence in pure consciousness is bliss). It is short of any tangible attributes. Alternatively, Saguna Brahman, with various attributes, is tangible in many interchangeable forms under the heads - alternative, renewable and fossil fuel forms of energy.

I repeat, non-duality is the idea that the same ultimate unchangeable reality manifests and materializes in various forms, within which apparent or temporary forms in interchangeable matter and consciousness appear and disappear back into its fold. Although Brahman has no diversity, there are diversities in how matter and consciousness take different forms. To illustrate, a peacock's egg contains a white colourless liquid, but all the colours of the peacock exude from it while alive, eventually disappearing after death.

According to non-dualism, there is one subject: unchanging reality in unity and continuity; it cannot be divided into two parts. All existential realities are temporal and limited and are not real. Only the boundless is real; all other limits are only ideas. Everything has a complete origin, and everything that has come from that completeness, despite being distinct from one another, is complete. This completeness emerged from that completeness, and the absolute is untouched by taking anything away from this completeness. Even if you take anything away from the infinite, it doesn't diminish. It remains infinite.

Science focuses on the universe "outside," Vedanta explores the "subject within" - the person interacting with this universe. The observer and the outside world are the undivided parts of the same non-dual supreme form of energy. Scientists conducted physics experiments using state-of-the-art technology and sophisticated mathematics to comprehend molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. The classic double-slit investigation confirms that everything "out there" is in a waveform, including electrons, which collapse into particles when viewed.

The observer's role changed for the first time. French scientist De Broglie explained the "collapse of the wave function" by claiming that every item is a wave before observation and transforms into a particle at that point. It means that when we stare at someone in front of us, they appear to be solid people with physical traits, but as soon as we look away, they transform into a wave! They return to being solid when we turn back to face them. This observation seems odd, but science supports the same. For this discovery, they awarded De Broglie the Nobel Prize in 1929. According to quantum physics, the universe is made up of both waves and particles. How is it both, exactly? What transpires to the wave as it transforms into a particle? Does it enter another dimension? Science still needs to provide a solution. But in Vedanta, this is called "Maya." – illusions. Beyond the observer, we have within the mind Nirguna Brahman -the non-dual universal energy, the supreme form of energy, which triggers life, making the mind first aware and, after that, conscious to feel, think and perceive through sensory organs.

Space makes up 99.99% of who we are. So, how do we look to be so assertive? The brain creates a virtual world out of the moving electrons and subatomic particles that are a part of the vast cosmos. The tenet of Vedanta is straightforward: everything with a quantum appearance establishes an Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Vedanta dives more deeply into eternal reality. It continues and puts the pieces together of the quantum physics puzzle. Everything appears in space, time, and energy. However, that infinite space must exist for it to exist. Only when there is consciousness associated with existence does it exist? This is the absolute limit of what the human mind can comprehend. Non-dualism in Advait Vedanta postulates that the manifest of the world has emanated from the Self (aware-er)-body and mind, being the observer is only an illusion (Lila) of Brahmn (energy). 

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[thedreadvampy]

was in the gym yesterday and there was a guy doing bench press next to me who was talking the hind leg off the guy spotting him with just the most 14-year-old Reddit edgy atheist bullshit I have heard since I myself was a 14 year old edgy atheist

and it annoyed me so much I'm still thinking about it 36 hours later. what the fuck do you mean "we know everything about the universe and there's no space for God in that"???? the fuck we do!!!!!!

idgaf if you believe in a god or not

and we could get into the impossibility of identifying the lack of a space where a God could go when the nature of a God that's always been in everything in the universe would make that entirely impossible to test because if a God was genuinely omnipresent, eternal, irreducible and predated the universe, you could take the universe apart and not find any God because what are you looking for It's everything in a universe with a God of that nature there's no possible basis for comparison, and unlike other irreducible forces like gravity, we assume It acts on everything in non-uniform ways independent of factors like mass and physical relationship so you can't maths it out but ASIDE FROM THAT

jesus christ guy at the gym talk to a single physicist ever challenge. how goddamn unscientific. to be like 'well we know the universe started with hydrogen so there's no god lol'

imagine being so insanely incurious that you literally think Science Has Solved Every Question And We Understand The Universe Now

like I'm no physicist but I'm pretty sure that in the last 20 years the model of universal creation, composition and forces has continued to evolve and develop in response to new evidence and new mathematics. certainly in the last 100 years it's gone through countless finetuning and reevaluations. what kind of end of history ass bullshit are you on that you think we ALREADY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE, guy at the gym? sort out your cosmology, guy at the gym!!!!

[global-education]

The Beauty of Mathematics: Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe

Mathematics is often considered the language of the universe, an abstract symphony of numbers, symbols, and figures that shape our reality. It may be bewildering at times, but once you grasp its essence, you realize its inherent beauty.

Patterns Everywhere

Look around. Notice the petals on a flower, the spiraling pattern of a pinecone, or the graceful curve of a seashell. The consistent patterns reflect a mathematical principle known as the Fibonacci sequence. This sequence begins with 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. The sequence's connection with nature is mesmerizing, revealing the wondrous beauty of mathematics.

The Circle of Life: Pi and its Mysteries

In the grand circle of life and the universe, there's a number that stands out—Pi (π). Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is an irrational number, meaning it cannot be expressed as a simple fraction, and its decimal representation never ends or repeats. Pi is everywhere: in the Earth's rotation, the DNA double helix, and even the patterns of stars swirling in galaxies. Truly, Pi's omnipresence is a testament to the universe's mathematical fabric.

The Golden Ratio: The Formula for Beauty

The Golden Ratio (approximately 1.618), often symbolized by the Greek letter φ (phi), has long been considered the epitome of beauty. It appears in famous architectural marvels, such as the Parthenon, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and even the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In nature, it's seen in the arrangement of leaves on a stem, the branching of trees, and the spiral of galaxies. The Golden Ratio's pervasive nature across different disciplines underscores the profound role mathematics plays in unveiling the universe's secrets.

The Dance of the Planets: Kepler’s Laws

The orbits of planets around the sun follow precise mathematical laws. Johannes Kepler, a 17th-century mathematician, discovered these laws, which describe the planets' paths as ellipses, not circles. The planets' dance in the cosmos can be calculated and predicted because of these mathematical laws. This precision gives us the ability to send satellites and spacecraft to distant planets, marking an example of how mathematics helps us unlock the universe's secrets.

The Symmetry in Snowflakes

If you've ever looked closely at a snowflake, you'd be stunned by the intricate symmetry it displays. Each snowflake is a masterpiece of geometric design, revealing the beauty of fractal mathematics. Fractals are complex structures built from simple repeated patterns. They're abundant in nature, from river networks to mountain ranges, showcasing the elegance of mathematics in the world around us.

The Mathematical Universe

Famed physicist Max Tegmark proposed that our universe isn't just described by mathematics—it is mathematics. He suggests that everything in the universe, including you and me, is part of a mathematical structure. While this might seem like an abstract concept, it simply shows how deeply intertwined our lives are with mathematics, and how it can offer fascinating insights into the universe's workings.

Making Sense of Chaos: Mathematics and Chaos Theory

Chaos theory, a branch of mathematics, deals with systems that appear random but follow underlying patterns. It helps explain complex systems like weather patterns, traffic flows, and even population dynamics. Chaos theory showcases the power of mathematics to make sense of seemingly disordered phenomena, reinforcing its essential role in understanding our universe.

Conclusion: Unraveling the Universe with Mathematics

The beauty of mathematics lies in its power to unveil the universe's mysteries. It's more than just numbers on a page—it's the language that describes the world around us, from the smallest snowflake to the largest galaxy. The next time you look up at the stars or marvel at the symmetry in a leaf, remember: you're witnessing the beauty of mathematics. Understanding its concepts enables us to unlock the secrets of the universe, enhancing our appreciation for the world around us and beyond. For additional details, please visit Global Education.

[manorinthewoods]

What was more surprising than the level of technology I discovered was the fact that, primarily, it was my cult responsible for the advancements.

Seriously, they'd made a whole pantheon based around my adventuring days, which was rather silly. And their holy texts were, at least in part, translations of my own personal tome, which was... concerning. Luckily, they hadn't gotten to any of the important secrets, such as the identity of my beloved pet.

Citrus had come with me on our journey through the river of time. (Quite literal - I'd had to build a boat for the process.) Though he was the dragon of mathematics, even he was stumped by some of these abstract fields modern mathematicians had developed.

Such an interesting world! Their machines ran on a magic the complexity of which I'd only theorised. Their artworks! When an artist could conquer the corrupted environment of the upper class, such impressive things they made! A library, flying on stone wings! A pool containing the sum total of human knowledge! Whole nascent gods, created as jokes! Sapient ideas!

And nevermind the real creations. Industrial summoning devices! Mechanical mages in every home, an aether spun between them! Chariots of painted steel! There were even these 'guns', created by a tinkerer to prove a point. Mechanical only, and yet they packed more of a punch than any spell I'd seen! (Excluding my own, of course, and accounting for the expense of action.)

Still, this wondrous realm was somehow... broken. Though they deftly manipulated electric minds between their fingers, there were pervasive winds of ennui. Exhaustion. The night was no longer dark, the day no longer bright. The smell of oil, so omnipresent you could barely distinguish it. Rituals that were once filled with awe and splendor, now reduced as far as they could be, in the name of efficiency, automation.

Djinni were once extraordinary things, but with their origins revealed, now they were manufactured en masse. The curtain of ages was snatched away to reveal the truth of them; mere golems, grown more intelligent with age. And the old djinni could not stand out against the endless sea of new idiots, broken in their fundament so that they could be more efficient at whatever asinine task they were put to this time. These creations... they had no hope. There was no way for one to grow, to become more, when its creator was ever-so-invested in his crier of smoke never changing its cry. (Advertisement? Was that seriously the only thing they could conceive of, when they could manufacture new minds in arbitrary quantity?)

So after a long year of exploration, of discovery, I considered... the boat. There was much to learn here, yet, somehow, the world felt more boring than the one I'd left. All the excitement had been sucked out of it. There were no new places to explore, dark corners to illuminate. Everything was a purposeless struggle.

So I, and my familiar, went back to the boat. It had looked so wonderful when I had first built it. Now, it was just... stupid. It looked dumb. Overengineered. All those additions were silly, when it could be so much simpler, more efficient. But it still worked.

We set off for the next age, in the hopes that perhaps, one day, there would be life in the world again.

You were the greatest archmage in the kingdom and so powerful that you discovered all there was to discover at the time. So, utterly bored but unwilling to die, you decided to freeze yourself in time for a thousand years. After you unfreeze you find yourself in a modern information age world.

[remembering-the-future]

Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed colleagues, and fellow denizens of this hyper-digital epoch, allow me to commence with an unequivocal declaration: We are the architects of our own obsolescence. In this era of unprecedented technological convolution, we find ourselves ensnared in a labyrinthine web of digital machinations, meticulously woven by the insatiable tendrils of destructive capitalism.

Our discourse today revolves around the singular, albeit multifaceted, phenomenon of technological manipulation, an art form perfected by the voracious appetites of corporate behemoths. These titans of industry, with their insidious proclivity for profit maximization, have deftly transformed technology from a tool of enlightenment into an instrument of subjugation. The once noble pursuit of innovation has been supplanted by a relentless quest for pecuniary gain, leaving in its wake a dystopian landscape where human agency is but a vestigial remnant.

Consider, if you will, the omnipresent algorithmic overlords that govern our quotidian existence. These digital sentinels, ostensibly designed to enhance our lives, have been co-opted by the capitalist juggernaut to manipulate our desires, dictate our choices, and ultimately, commodify our very essence. The algorithm, once a benign construct of mathematical ingenuity, now serves as the harbinger of our digital servitude, a testament to the pernicious symbiosis between technology and capitalism.

In this brave new world, data is the new currency, and we, the unwitting purveyors of our own information, have become the primary commodity. Our digital footprints, meticulously harvested and monetized, fuel the insatiable engines of consumerism, perpetuating a cycle of exploitation that is as inescapable as it is insidious. The capitalist imperative to extract value from every conceivable facet of human existence has rendered us mere cogs in a vast, unfeeling machine, our individuality subsumed by the relentless march of technological determinism.

Yet, amidst this cacophony of digital manipulation, a glimmer of hope persists. The very tools that have been wielded against us possess the potential for emancipation. If we, as a collective, can wrest control from the clutches of avaricious capitalism, we may yet reclaim technology as a force for good, a catalyst for societal advancement rather than a mechanism of subjugation.

In conclusion, let us not be passive spectators in this unfolding drama. Let us rise, with intellectual vigor and moral fortitude, to challenge the hegemony of destructive capitalism and reclaim our digital destiny. For in the end, it is not technology that is convoluted, but rather the motives of those who wield it. Thank you.

[literaturereviewhelp]

The Development of Teaching Physics Through Modeling as Pedagogical Method in The United s:   A Historical Review In 1821, when the first public high school in America opened, physics was already a part of the curriculum. By1886, Harvard College established a physics laboratory to improve the physics teaching establishment (Hurd, 1969). We may wonder how physics was taught back then. What caused the development of modeling? The purpose of this literature review is to understand the modeling method that is being applied in physics classrooms today, how this method developed and how physics teachers are being trained to have more effective teaching methods into the future. In scientific terms, a model is a representation of a phenomenon initially produced for a specific purpose. As a ‘phenomenon’ is any intellectually interesting way of segregating a part of the world-as-experienced for further study, models are omnipresent. Teaching science as inquiry is among the most important science standards to be passed to future generations. Modeling is part of teaching science as inquiry because it enhances students’ critical thinking skills. For this reason, teachers, such as physics teachers, who play a big role in applying inquiry in the science classroom must be knowledgeable in modeling techniques to encourage students to think critically in areas of inquiry. Modeling constitutes a complete open learning environment appropriate for students 11-17 years old. It supports students as well as teachers during learning/teaching activities. At the same time, modeling provides teachers with the opportunity to model situations studied as part of the national curricula in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Environmental Education and many other interdisciplinary situations. Modeling can also foster collaborative learning in a wider learning community (dimitracopoulou1, et al, 1999). Modeling focuses on essential factors of an inquiry and helps to organize complex information. Scientists build models to facilitate further study as models can be analyzed; validated and deployed (Deakin 2006). The science of physics can be characterized as a complex network of models interrelated by a system of theoretical principles Read the full article

[nursingwriter]

Biometric Optical Technology Retina Biometric Technology Applications This work reviews the "retina biometric technological application' in relation to the practical use of this application as well as the drawbacks, failures and successes that have been experienced with this technological security application. Biometric technology has been called the most precise biometric technology available today. This technology is under deployment at many airports across the globe to tighten security screening of airline employees and passengers. The product was patented in 18987 by Leonard Flom and Aran Safir for recognizing that the human irises have features that are unique to the point that the positive and accurate identification of individuals is possible and viable. In 1994 another patent was awarded to Dr. John Daugman who developed mathematical algorithms enabling image of the iris to be encoded and sorted digitally and then made the image compared to an iris image in real-time. This work explores the specifics of this application in the mapping of the iris for biometric recognition. Retina Biometric Technology Applications Objective The objective of this work is to research and examine an application that uses retina biometric technology in security scanning and to detail the specific functions in this application. I. Introduction In the high-tech world of today security systems are all prevalent in both the public eye but as well in the view of the individual who seeks to protect their property and their family. The equipment utilized is stated to be "electronic. Optical and acoustic security, detection, monitoring and surveillance systems" (Market Research Report, Business Communications Co. 2002) Further all of this technological advances in security are used for the purpose of protecting" persons, organizations and companies, commercial and social operations, civil and military installations both at national and international levels.... "the personalized security systems of a home to large-scale systems for the protection of crucial national installations." Inclusive in these systems are closed-circuit television cameras which comprise the omnipresent all-seeing eyes throughout the cities and in railway and subway stations. The constant recording and transmission of these hidden cameras informs law enforcement and security personnel of any impending threats. Biometric Identification Technology Systems Retina recognition and retinal pattern recognition has been used for many years. However the high costs of this type of Biometric identification resulted in the product being removed from the market. Recently the emergence of biometric technology systems has witnessed a climb in use rates for the purpose of identification all across the globe. Iris or Retinal scanning is done through high-resolution imaging using infrared and a specialized camera. The VRD or 'Virtual Retinal Display" through use of both horizontal and vertical scanning technology in the function of inputting small slices of picture superimposed on the retina in the scanning identification process. Biometric technology has been called the most precise biometric technology available today. This technology is under deployment at many airports across the globe to tighten security screening of airline employees and passengers. The product was patented in 1987 by Leonard Flom and Aran Safir for recognizing that the human irises have features that are unique to the point that the positive and accurate identification of individuals is possible and viable. In 1994 another patent was awarded to Dr. John Daugman who developed mathematical algorithms enabling image of the iris to be encoded and sorted digitally and then made the image compared to an iris image in real-time. II. Biometric Technology - Superior to Other Applications In the work entitled "Physical Security in Mission Critical Facilities" the author, Suzanne Niles, relates the fact that in methods of making identification of people fall into three primary categories "of increasing reliability - and increasing equipment costs: 1) What you have 2) What you know; and 3) Who you are. Niles states that the most reliable method of identification is "Who you are" which "refers to identification by recognition of unique physical characteristics." III. Two Existing Failures in Biometric Recognition There are two failures that exist in the application of Biometric Recognition. Those two failures are: 1) False rejection in which the system fails to recognize the individual who is legitimately a user creating great frustration for users denied access because of system failure in recognition of them. 2) False acceptance which is through confusion of one user and another or the acceptance of an invalid individual as being a user that is legitimate. Although the rate of failure is easily adjusted through modifying the threshold through decreasing the rate of failure on the end of rejection or acceptance the increase of failure on the other end of the spectrum increases In the act of choosing equipment with biometric functions the considerations are stated to be: 1) Equipment cost and 2) Failure Rates. Drawbacks to consumer embrasure of the retinal scanners are due to the requirement of the eye to be one to two inches away from the scanner while an LED is focused directly into the individual's eye. IV. Specifics of the Biometric Technology Application This type of technology is an application that through locating the iris with a monochrome camera approximately three feet from the eye. The narrowing of the algorithm moves from the right and left of the iris and then makes location of the outside edge while at the same time locating the pupil and the eye's inner edge. Visible and infrared light are used by the camera and the algorithm upon locating the iris utilized 20-D Gabor wavelets in a filtering and mapping function of the iris breaking it down into many separate phasors/vectors. Values are assigned by the wavelets relating to the spatial frequency and orientation of those areas selected. The portion of the iris used is technologically converted into values of 512-byte IrisCode template. The iris has identification in 266 unique spots which serves as a template for live-scan images of iris comparisons. One example of a product using this type of biometric capability is that of the Optical Biometric Reader with a template capacity of 720. Identification is through a one-to-many matching operation in which the captured image is compared to all images stored in the system until a match is located. False acceptance rates based on security settings of medium are sated to be 0.001% while false rejection rates are stated at 0.1%. There are nine security levels ranging from low to very high with acceptance rates depending on the level of security in use. Concerns of Optical Biometric Technology Both infrared and visible light is used in retinal scanning. The visible light is not overly bright and everyone does not experience the spots in the eyes after the scanning that some report. The application has been deemed through testing to be safe in its' use. Summary and Conclusion While there are those that feel retina scanning is too intrusive there are others that consider the small inconvenience well worth the security provided by the retinal scanning biometric technology applications in the realm of security assurance. There are also those who feel that this type of application could result in company abuse of the information relating to employees due to the fact that "while Iridians algorithms are only used for identification and verification, modifications could theoretically be made that would analyze the iris for disease, alcoholism, drug abuse and even a predisposition toward certain kinds of diseases." This fact alone leads to the conclusion that much legislation is certain in the future for the regulation of the optical biometric scanning application's use. References Niles, Suzanne (2004) "Physical Security in Mission Critical Facilities White Paper No. 82 - Revision 1 American Power Conversion APC 2004 . Electronic, Acoustic and Optical Surveillance and Monitoring Systems Market Research Report- Business Communications Co. September 2002 R2-612 Online available at http://www.mindbranch.com/listing/product/R2-612.html. Guevin, Laura (2002) Is The Iris the Gateway to Our True Identities Biometritech Online available at http://productfinder.gcn.com/search/keyword/gcn/EyeSca n Tools/EyeScanTools Optical Biometric Reader Control Module Inc. (2005) Product Specification Online available at http://www.controlmod.com/tier2/pdfs/bioscan/PS2105_125.pdf Retina Biometric Technology Applications Read the full article

[k00319146]

MC:ESCHER: Artists Research - (In reference to my Art work)

I believe my piece definitely shares some thematic and visual connections with M.C eschers work, especially in reference to architectural form and impossible space. Escher was known for creating mind-bending compositions featuring staircases that defy gravity, recursive structures, and illusions of infinite depth.

In my work, the fragmented staircases, distorted perspectives, and layering of elements create a similar space of spatial ambiguity. The way the stairs seem to lead nowhere or fold into themselves echoes Escher’s fascination with paradoxical spaces. Additionally, the eye at the top adds a surreal, almost omnipresent presence, which aligns with Escher’s in perception and infinity

However I believe my painting has a much more expressive a chaotic feel and energy in comparison to Escher’s mathematically precise, high controlled drawings and prints, the lines in my painting have more a free and abstract line quality, I also use more gestural brushstrokes and intense reds that create a intense emotional and visceral experience