Thought dump
Created | Updated May 16, 2006
Rather than cluttering up my diary I have decided to put any interesting opinions I come up with, spawned by other entries or whatever, here instead:
That has nothing to do with what Connie is on about. Time may be the medium as you say, but the 'particles' within that medium are still an intrinsic part.
So any A+ particles losing energy as they go past the 'now' would certainly become A- particles, the trouble with this theory is that the massive buildup of energy within the 'now' would cause a total existance failure without some form of dissapation. Perhaps applying the circular time theory, the energy rejoins the A- particles at the exact opposite end out time, a sort of anti-now, thus becoming A+ particles ready to start the process all over again.
This is another fun comment I made within a fresh entry I found particularly stimulating (Time-a bi-directional entity, I think or whatever it was called):
Without doing any research whatsoever, I had always assumed to fifth dimension to be the concept of multiple time lines - If the 4th is an object moving through a set of fixed points, then would not the fifth be the capability for the same object to travel through an alternative set of fixed points depending on the 'outside' persepective?
Analogy, analogy... a train goes along a track (2nd dimension), a train goes over and around a hill (3rd dimension), the train track is a fixed object moving within a whole, being the earth (4th dimension), so the fifth dimension would be that whole deciding to allow the track itself to scuttle about across its surface while the train is still travelling along it.
Thats what I always thought anyway.
This entry was actually a posting I put elsewhere, and I thought it so good I didnt want to lose track of it, so I put it in the diary. Marvellous
I did actually consider removing myself a few years ago (nice way to put it, no?). The trouble was at the time the only methods I had at my limited disposal were either using the old steam and knife, or to jump off a terribly high thing called a ladder. At this point I found myself giggling insanely for I knew instinctively that these were two quite stupid methods of suicide because both had a strong possibility of failure and would leave rather a mess.
I pictured the look my mother would have if and when she found me and it was not a look of grief she had, but one of exasperation because of yet another mess of mine she had to clean up. This caused hysterics to me, and since then I have not even contemplated the matter because life is too funny to pass up on.
Incidentally I have also nearly died 5 times, through various methods such as falling off a cliff and having a shoplifter with a gun get terribly friendly with me. After each time I didnt beat myself up because of what I did or didnt do, I merely found each experience a morbidly funny learning curve. Seems to have worked.
This ditty was in the Last One To post Here thread. It is an acrostic is you cant spot it by yourself:
Laugh all you want
Only you are the fools
Otherwise I would laugh too
Kind of like a monkey in a zoo
In a cage. Like you should be.
Winning is what I do,
In here and everywhere else.
Nyayanana!
This got thrust upon the "Why puts people off posting on h2g2"
I am now going to tell a heartfelt story entitiled 'Newbie to Amused Masses'.
When I first signed up to h2g2 it took three tries because I was scared of the house rules and the (heh) rigourous checks needed to gain an account. Then, I was awrded my own personal space and I thought, ooo what a nice feature, I wonder what happens if I...? Oh dear.
A day or so later I got a nice letter from an ACE offering help, which is possibly the best thing to happen to newbies anywhere on the internet. Next I spent a little while browsing the GuideML pages trying to figure out how the hell I was supposed to go about making a mark on this glorious place via my personal page. Im still none the wiser.
Next, another couple of days later I leafed through some entries and fiddled with the search box and to my delight i found things which I could read about that actaully taught me new things. Then I made my fatal mistake. I clicked on "The Manifesto for the Campaign to Rename Thursday 'thing'" I managed to get through a few hundred posts before my brain broke and I put the N3 thread to the use for which it was intended. The responses were not helpful, the elitist bunch of goits.
Much later I had discovered the joys of Mornington Cresent and limerick pages and various other diversions I could read and giggle at. My last post on N3 has been responded with a threat to roast me on an open fire (hurrah!) and I am happily rubbishing Nighthooverism whenever I can.
I may even finish one of my own entries one of these days.
The point of this is, I realised what a lot of newbies never realise, the the H2G2 community is so vast, that even if one section is all about spouting poop, there are hundreds of other sections where learning and avid discussion can take place. There are even threads Ive posted to where I have made a 'contribution' to a discussion on stuff I actually knew about.
So this is to all you newbies, young and old, experienced and pooping pants: Persevere. There really is something for everyone.
Now I must go copy this and dump it on my personal space otherwise I'll forget I even wrote it.
Ok bods, this is another bit out of the Time: A bi-directional entity convo thread:
Ok, thinking out loud here so try and keep up.
Time is a point which used to be over here, and now is over here, and now is over here. Now, if time can move through the additional dimensions it can now move over there, or over there.
So, then for each point that can exist in the timescale, there must be alternatives for it to travel along otherwise time would stop and nobody would be able to account for anything at all (the human brain requiring time to function due to its electro-chemical reactions).
There may however be another version of thought processes out there, for as the dimensions get more complicated in their observations of each other, logically there will be a degree of complexity that allows a different version of 'thought', which will be so utterly alien to us that I can quite happily say will be beyond our comprehension no matter how pretentious one claims to be.
Anyway, so as a dimension in order to function must exist in another dimension beyond it, and another beyond it, ad infinitum. Unless fair enough there is a cutoff point where the process loops on itself, so say Dimension 26 exists within Dimension 1, which is part of Dimension 2 which is a part of Dimension 3, which moves in Dimension 4, which alternates in Dimension 5.
This would send a body (aha) loopy, just attempting to quantify them all, because there are only so many degrees of complexity that physically CAN be represnted from our perspective, no matter how many greek letters are used.
Haikus from Boardroom for General Mayhem...
Confused people,
Often take their painful woes,
To a big steeple.
Look within yourself,
See the llama within you.
Feed it llama treats.
Poke fools with big sticks.
Avoid retribution soon.
Aim for the soft bits.
More from Time: Bidirectional thingy...
Ok, heres the logic.
Power = Potential
Potential = Ability to do something
Ability = Inclination to do something
Inclination = Making stuff happen.
So every living and non-living thing is assigned an energy quotient based on their ability (and inclination) to affect the world around them, say for instance an inanimate staple gets a 2-3 because it can still rust and interact with things, while an ameoba gets a 7 because it mucks around with nutrient uptake and so on. Humans would probably get 19-22 because they can delibrately do things to change the world around them. Continuing to scale up, a being that can manipulate pretty much anything would be human power squared (cos we can only do things to the limits of our resources, while God would have EVERYTHING to play with).
Hence, if God had an energy quotient of 42, then he would be quite inclined to do a spot of creation and manipulation, simply because He CAN. Same as a bloke with an energy of 20 climbing a mountain, because that is within his ability, thus he may be more inclined to do it.
This next one is spawned from a discussion about Joseph Campbell, which was brought up in an essay about the Jedi:
I have a talent for archery bizarrely...
But anyway yes, the trouble with making accurate myth study mandatory is the problem with any story and creative work. Being that unless it is in utterly specific technicia the work will be open to interpretation along the lines of whatever the studier thinks at the time.
What I feel is the problem, (and this could easily be construed as being deeply sexist, for which I apologise) is that SOMEBODY has to do tasks viewed as 'feminine' whether it be cleaning or child rearing or being able to disinguish colour of poisonous berries. And the trouble is, men are disinclined to do the tasks, and women are told they dont have to do them if they dont want to, so it ends up that nobody does them and we get the charming entity known as disaffected youth.
Hmm, I may have wandered in the point there, but hey.
A nice not very well thought out bit of fun from "Anyone else sick to death of green issues" encouraging 'utopia'
Two birds with one stone approach:
Take the vast numbers of leaflet droppers and junk mail creators and offer them jobs on huge conveyor belts lined with people picking out rubbish and chucking them into bins going to the appropriate recycling depot.
"How do we pay for this?" cry the bean counters. A wonderful scheme called council tax, which when formerly used to spend large amount of money supplying homes with useless wheelie bins
(we dont actually have one, most of my area has black bags at dawn collection, but when I lived elsewhere, woe betide not putting wheelie bin on the pavement instead of a whole half metre away on front of drive, the bags backed up for weeks cos you arent allowed to overfill the wheelies and so on and so on...)
and wonderful offices are set up to "improve public safety" by chopping down unsightly trees and so forth (I could make a list, but you get the gist, every town has things where everyone living there goes "Why the hell did they do that?")
instead has its funds diverted into paying people to stand around all day with big gloves on. Hell, the very companies which make the leaflets could change their direction and have all the business funds they would usually make stuck into a sweepstake, which goes round all the businesses, and the greater strides they make towards helping out, the bigger share they get out of the fund, thus encouraging 'Competition'.
I know the whole shebang is not entirely economically viable to start with, a bunch of bods with business degrees probably needs to go through the details, but the point is, the environment needs to be made profitable.
Oh and more flower farms, I like flowers.
That has nothing to do with what Connie is on about. Time may be the medium as you say, but the 'particles' within that medium are still an intrinsic part.
So any A+ particles losing energy as they go past the 'now' would certainly become A- particles, the trouble with this theory is that the massive buildup of energy within the 'now' would cause a total existance failure without some form of dissapation. Perhaps applying the circular time theory, the energy rejoins the A- particles at the exact opposite end out time, a sort of anti-now, thus becoming A+ particles ready to start the process all over again.
This is another fun comment I made within a fresh entry I found particularly stimulating (Time-a bi-directional entity, I think or whatever it was called):
Without doing any research whatsoever, I had always assumed to fifth dimension to be the concept of multiple time lines - If the 4th is an object moving through a set of fixed points, then would not the fifth be the capability for the same object to travel through an alternative set of fixed points depending on the 'outside' persepective?
Analogy, analogy... a train goes along a track (2nd dimension), a train goes over and around a hill (3rd dimension), the train track is a fixed object moving within a whole, being the earth (4th dimension), so the fifth dimension would be that whole deciding to allow the track itself to scuttle about across its surface while the train is still travelling along it.
Thats what I always thought anyway.
This entry was actually a posting I put elsewhere, and I thought it so good I didnt want to lose track of it, so I put it in the diary. Marvellous
I did actually consider removing myself a few years ago (nice way to put it, no?). The trouble was at the time the only methods I had at my limited disposal were either using the old steam and knife, or to jump off a terribly high thing called a ladder. At this point I found myself giggling insanely for I knew instinctively that these were two quite stupid methods of suicide because both had a strong possibility of failure and would leave rather a mess.
I pictured the look my mother would have if and when she found me and it was not a look of grief she had, but one of exasperation because of yet another mess of mine she had to clean up. This caused hysterics to me, and since then I have not even contemplated the matter because life is too funny to pass up on.
Incidentally I have also nearly died 5 times, through various methods such as falling off a cliff and having a shoplifter with a gun get terribly friendly with me. After each time I didnt beat myself up because of what I did or didnt do, I merely found each experience a morbidly funny learning curve. Seems to have worked.
This ditty was in the Last One To post Here thread. It is an acrostic is you cant spot it by yourself:
Laugh all you want
Only you are the fools
Otherwise I would laugh too
Kind of like a monkey in a zoo
In a cage. Like you should be.
Winning is what I do,
In here and everywhere else.
Nyayanana!
This got thrust upon the "Why puts people off posting on h2g2"
I am now going to tell a heartfelt story entitiled 'Newbie to Amused Masses'.
When I first signed up to h2g2 it took three tries because I was scared of the house rules and the (heh) rigourous checks needed to gain an account. Then, I was awrded my own personal space and I thought, ooo what a nice feature, I wonder what happens if I...? Oh dear.
A day or so later I got a nice letter from an ACE offering help, which is possibly the best thing to happen to newbies anywhere on the internet. Next I spent a little while browsing the GuideML pages trying to figure out how the hell I was supposed to go about making a mark on this glorious place via my personal page. Im still none the wiser.
Next, another couple of days later I leafed through some entries and fiddled with the search box and to my delight i found things which I could read about that actaully taught me new things. Then I made my fatal mistake. I clicked on "The Manifesto for the Campaign to Rename Thursday 'thing'" I managed to get through a few hundred posts before my brain broke and I put the N3 thread to the use for which it was intended. The responses were not helpful, the elitist bunch of goits.
Much later I had discovered the joys of Mornington Cresent and limerick pages and various other diversions I could read and giggle at. My last post on N3 has been responded with a threat to roast me on an open fire (hurrah!) and I am happily rubbishing Nighthooverism whenever I can.
I may even finish one of my own entries one of these days.
The point of this is, I realised what a lot of newbies never realise, the the H2G2 community is so vast, that even if one section is all about spouting poop, there are hundreds of other sections where learning and avid discussion can take place. There are even threads Ive posted to where I have made a 'contribution' to a discussion on stuff I actually knew about.
So this is to all you newbies, young and old, experienced and pooping pants: Persevere. There really is something for everyone.
Now I must go copy this and dump it on my personal space otherwise I'll forget I even wrote it.
Ok bods, this is another bit out of the Time: A bi-directional entity convo thread:
Ok, thinking out loud here so try and keep up.
Time is a point which used to be over here, and now is over here, and now is over here. Now, if time can move through the additional dimensions it can now move over there, or over there.
So, then for each point that can exist in the timescale, there must be alternatives for it to travel along otherwise time would stop and nobody would be able to account for anything at all (the human brain requiring time to function due to its electro-chemical reactions).
There may however be another version of thought processes out there, for as the dimensions get more complicated in their observations of each other, logically there will be a degree of complexity that allows a different version of 'thought', which will be so utterly alien to us that I can quite happily say will be beyond our comprehension no matter how pretentious one claims to be.
Anyway, so as a dimension in order to function must exist in another dimension beyond it, and another beyond it, ad infinitum. Unless fair enough there is a cutoff point where the process loops on itself, so say Dimension 26 exists within Dimension 1, which is part of Dimension 2 which is a part of Dimension 3, which moves in Dimension 4, which alternates in Dimension 5.
This would send a body (aha) loopy, just attempting to quantify them all, because there are only so many degrees of complexity that physically CAN be represnted from our perspective, no matter how many greek letters are used.
Haikus from Boardroom for General Mayhem...
Confused people,
Often take their painful woes,
To a big steeple.
Look within yourself,
See the llama within you.
Feed it llama treats.
Poke fools with big sticks.
Avoid retribution soon.
Aim for the soft bits.
More from Time: Bidirectional thingy...
Ok, heres the logic.
Power = Potential
Potential = Ability to do something
Ability = Inclination to do something
Inclination = Making stuff happen.
So every living and non-living thing is assigned an energy quotient based on their ability (and inclination) to affect the world around them, say for instance an inanimate staple gets a 2-3 because it can still rust and interact with things, while an ameoba gets a 7 because it mucks around with nutrient uptake and so on. Humans would probably get 19-22 because they can delibrately do things to change the world around them. Continuing to scale up, a being that can manipulate pretty much anything would be human power squared (cos we can only do things to the limits of our resources, while God would have EVERYTHING to play with).
Hence, if God had an energy quotient of 42, then he would be quite inclined to do a spot of creation and manipulation, simply because He CAN. Same as a bloke with an energy of 20 climbing a mountain, because that is within his ability, thus he may be more inclined to do it.
This next one is spawned from a discussion about Joseph Campbell, which was brought up in an essay about the Jedi:
I have a talent for archery bizarrely...
But anyway yes, the trouble with making accurate myth study mandatory is the problem with any story and creative work. Being that unless it is in utterly specific technicia the work will be open to interpretation along the lines of whatever the studier thinks at the time.
What I feel is the problem, (and this could easily be construed as being deeply sexist, for which I apologise) is that SOMEBODY has to do tasks viewed as 'feminine' whether it be cleaning or child rearing or being able to disinguish colour of poisonous berries. And the trouble is, men are disinclined to do the tasks, and women are told they dont have to do them if they dont want to, so it ends up that nobody does them and we get the charming entity known as disaffected youth.
Hmm, I may have wandered in the point there, but hey.
A nice not very well thought out bit of fun from "Anyone else sick to death of green issues" encouraging 'utopia'
Two birds with one stone approach:
Take the vast numbers of leaflet droppers and junk mail creators and offer them jobs on huge conveyor belts lined with people picking out rubbish and chucking them into bins going to the appropriate recycling depot.
"How do we pay for this?" cry the bean counters. A wonderful scheme called council tax, which when formerly used to spend large amount of money supplying homes with useless wheelie bins
(we dont actually have one, most of my area has black bags at dawn collection, but when I lived elsewhere, woe betide not putting wheelie bin on the pavement instead of a whole half metre away on front of drive, the bags backed up for weeks cos you arent allowed to overfill the wheelies and so on and so on...)
and wonderful offices are set up to "improve public safety" by chopping down unsightly trees and so forth (I could make a list, but you get the gist, every town has things where everyone living there goes "Why the hell did they do that?")
instead has its funds diverted into paying people to stand around all day with big gloves on. Hell, the very companies which make the leaflets could change their direction and have all the business funds they would usually make stuck into a sweepstake, which goes round all the businesses, and the greater strides they make towards helping out, the bigger share they get out of the fund, thus encouraging 'Competition'.
I know the whole shebang is not entirely economically viable to start with, a bunch of bods with business degrees probably needs to go through the details, but the point is, the environment needs to be made profitable.
Oh and more flower farms, I like flowers.
