Tom

“If you can’t trust the founders to be truthful in their profiles, how can you trust what anyone says on the site”

TechCrunch on speculation about the age of a MySpace co-founder

I know people who are twenty or thirty years old that lie about their age - they say they are twenty or thirty, when really they are closed minded crotechety old geezers of sixty or more

i know seventy year old men who could whip the ass of strapping young man with one hand tied behind their back, a wink and a smile

i know teenageers and even kids years young than me that know as much as i know about life, get how the world works - enough to cause you wonder if they've been here before

i don't believe your age relates very closely to the number of laps you've made around the sun -

“People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.”

Douglas MacArthur

invariance

"Code is Poetry"

it's a cool little quip.  but the point, whether we are einstein or not, is that we each develop an intuitive feel of how to approach a problem *before* we work out a logical replication of that as a rational thought.  they way we work out something intuitive, is art.

it struck me then - that if code is poetry - then the code of reality - revealed in say mathematics - would display God's intuitive sense, and be his poetry, his art.

Psalm 19:1-9 (The Message) A David Psalm
God's glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures each evening. Their words aren't heard, their voices aren't recorded, But their silence fills the earth: unspoken truth is spoken everywhere. The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together. The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road. The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy. The directions of God are plain and easy on the eyes. God's reputation is twenty-four-carat gold, with a lifetime guarantee. The decisions of God are accurate down to the nth degree.

there are a number of lines of God's code that have revealed themselves - accurate and also elegant to the nth degree. at the top of the pack are Einsteins Mass-Energy Equivalence and Maxwell's Electromagnetism Relationships.  But I would argue other lines of code have revealed themselves and are evident to all... love, redemption, beauty, grace, mercy, his infinite power, and goodness. these lines of code run rampant throughout all human experience - and they remain changeless regardless of your frame of reference.  this idea is called invariance. and it's a bombshell.

what i want to rail against, is that we pretend like we live in a newtonian (or flat euclidean) universe - but we don't.  we really live in an einsteinien (or curved minkowskian) universe.  but that doesn't mean that there aren't things that are changeless.  we've just been looking in the wrong categories for things to anchor ourselves to.  

for instance, we've been looking at facts-as-parsed-by-language to be True-from-all-perspectives-and-sides, and failed to recognize / respect the dimensionality of reality.  we need to recognize the ramifications of what Einstein learned about God and reality a hundred years ago - and start to graple with its meaning for us.

This is God's code.  This is God's poetry.  This is his art.  It's breathtaking in it's beauty, magnitude, elegance, and invariance.

p.s.  and of course, an einsteinien universe is not the last most correct understanding / revision of reality - there is a problem ;-)

bwaha hahaa haaaa

facts

This image represents changing views of spacetime along the world line of a rapidly accelerating observer.

In this animation, the vertical direction indicates time and the horizontal direction indicates distance, the dashed line is the spacetime trajectory ("world line") of the observer. The lower quarter of the diagram shows the events that are visible to the observer, and the upper quarter shows the light cone - those that will be able to see the observer. The small dots are arbitrary events in spacetime.

The slope of the world line (deviation from being vertical) gives the relative velocity to the observer. Note how the view of spacetime changes when the observer accelerates.

(taken from this page on wiki)

i would like to equate events (represented here as dots) with facts (i don't believe this to be an egregious error).  from our point of view - our experience of reality is holistic, consistent and intuitive.  from our perspective - reality doesn't feel like this image (even near the speed of light).  But God's-view-of-our-perspective looks precisely like this image.  The same would be true for every event given every person who has ever lived.

So the full truth (or Truth is you prefer)... the full reality - from e.g. God's perspective, would require every world line to be mapped in a similar manner - simultaneously.  This mapping would require many more dimensions to accomplish ... and still may not exhaust the full dimensionality of truth / reality that is God's.

this image isn't anti-truth. this is truth.

these ideas aren't anti-christian. this is christianity.

and this isn't anti-God. this is God's nature.

next episode - invariance!

i love a good humbling -

wired magazine - which is kind of like my farmers almanac if it were written by a smarter version of my subconscious brain - had a cover story last physical issue (just hit the virtual shelves) - that is through da roof... stuff i love - a much more comprehensive list of things we don't know than i have ever been guilty of trying to assemble.

my favorites?
- time, kind of a gimme, almost a cliche, if you know me
- consciousness, like my all time fav
- gravity, good clean fun stuff
- turbulence, yeah baby! delightfully lovely chaos
- entanglement - my idea of romance. no really

i also thought the "is the Universe actually made of information" bit was pretty cool - and pretty postmodern too -

I'm feeling slightly vindicated because I asked a medical doctor friend this quandary once - and got a very unsatisfactory response... seriously, look at the math predators like cheetahs are doing on the fly to intercept their accelerating dodging prey - and it would suck to solve those problems by hand. how do their lightweight "inferior" brains do that stuff so stinkin quick.

also - if i haven't mentioned this before, i really want to live for a thousand years (and live on Mars to maybe help terraform it to learn more about complexity and chaos) so i'd like us to make some progress on understanding this one.

i was a little surprised they didn't mention the astounding gap of knowledge in how many species are on the planet. dudes...

although, they did add the catchall - which does raise the killer question - how deep does the rabit hole go?

i'm thinkin - pretty deep

sweet dreams -