[Title riffs on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"]
Rule #3: Cosmological Art
LIGO-Virgo GW170814 Skymap, A. Mellinger, et al. on APOD
Post 3,790 “Spacetime Ripples in the Sky with Big Al”
Showing posts with label You had me at bacon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label You had me at bacon. Show all posts
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Spacetime Ripples in the Sky with Big Al
LIGO-Virgo GW170814 Skymap, A. Mellinger, et al. on APOD
Post 3,790 “Spacetime Ripples in the Sky with Big Al”
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Take Big Al and Give the Points
Gravitational Waves Detected on Earth!
Related source » [This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
Cosmic breakthrough:
Physicists detect gravitational waves from violent black-hole merger
“Scientists announced Thursday that, after decades of effort, they have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space. The detection was hailed as a triumph for a controversial, exquisitely crafted, billion-dollar physics experiment and as confirmation of a key prediction of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. […] ”
— By Joel Achenbach and Rachel Feltman February 11, 2016 (washingtonpost.com)
"In March 1916 Einstein completed an article explaining general relativity in terms more easily understood." Coincidentally, that was just one month short of a century ago!
Big Al never ceases to amaze!
Big Al never ceases to amaze!
Post 2,854 “Take Big Al and Give the Points”
Friday, June 12, 2015
Fascinating Innovation at MIT
• LABELS:
You had me at bacon
Technology rules!
Related source » Robot Origami: Robot self-folds, walks, and completes tasks - YouTube: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“A team of MIT researchers have developed a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and measures about a centimeter from front to back. (Learn more: http://mitne.ws/1HwBZro)
[…]
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional footage: Shuhei Miyashita”
— Published on Jun 11, 2015 (youtube.com)
These are the young people who will save Western civilization.
Post 2,665 “Fascinating Innovation at MIT”
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Have It Your Way
… make it a Whopper!
Related source » Ungrateful Husband Smacks Pregnant Wife With McChicken Sandwich: Cops: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“Hill said his wife woke him up around 1 p.m. with a McChicken in hand. He admitted to police that he became upset and threw the sandwich at her, then picked up some of the bun, throwing it at her again.
[…]
Police apparently found Hill's wife with 'mayonnaise on her shirt and face'.”
— Aleksander Chan, Dec. 3, 2014 (gawker.com)
The "mayonnaise on her shirt" must have been the final indignity.
Post 2,486 “Have It Your Way”
Monday, November 24, 2014
NY Giants' Willie Mays Catch II
• LABELS:
American cultural literacy,
Duuude,
You had me at bacon
60 years later ...
NY Giants' Supercalidigitistic Odell Beckham, Jr.
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| Willie Mays makes his Great Catch 1954 World Series at Polo Grounds |
Real talk...it looks like Odell Beckham Jr caught that with 3 fingers! 3 FINGERS!!! pic.twitter.com/8L1z0QAlQR— His And Hers (@HisAndHers) November 24, 2014Post 2,473 “NY Giants' Willie Mays Catch II
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Brussels Sprouts Large Minister of Health
• LABELS:
WTF?,
You had me at bacon
You can't make this stuff up …
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| Image via popol.punt.nl (She's the one on the left.) |
Related source » Is she too fat to be a Health Minister? Critics attack 20-stone woman leading Belgium's battle against obesity: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“Among her duties as Belgium's new Minister of Public Health, Maggie De Block is tasked with tackling obesity. […] ”
— Mirror Online (mirror.co.uk)
Not sure about her tackling "obesity", but a charging rhinoceros …
Her favorite proverb is, "Do as I say, …"
Post 2,432 “Brussels Sprouts Large Minister of Health”
Her favorite proverb is, "Do as I say, …"
Neighbor of Brussels Sprouts a Pair
• LABELS:
Strong letter to follow,
You had me at bacon
[Just for the pun of it …]
Related source » Netherlands says OK for biker gangs to fight Islamic State: 'via Blog this'
Members of the 'No Surrender' biker gang are
fighting against Islamic State militants
in northern Iraq (AFP Photo/Olaf Kraak)
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“The Hague (AFP) - The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurds battling the Islamic State group in Iraq are not necessarily committing any crime.
"Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it's no longer forbidden," public prosecutor spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP.
"You just can't join a fight against the Netherlands," he told AFP after reports emerged that Dutch bikers from the No Surrender gang were fighting IS insurgents alongside Kurds in northern Iraq.
The head of No Surrender, Klaas Otto, told state broadcaster NOS that three members who travelled to near Mosul in northern Iraq were from Dutch cities Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Breda. […] ”
— Yahoo News, October 14, 2014 (news.yahoo.com)
'Nuff said!
Post 2,431 “Neighbor of Brussels Sprouts a Pair”
Sunday, June 29, 2014
This Week's Best of Rule2
• LABELS:
Rule2,
You had me at bacon
Rule #2: Everybody loves a fun pic!
Bacon is better! from Rico on Theo Spark
Post 2,289 “This Week's Best of Rule2”
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
TheBigHenry Discovers Television
Rule #4: "Easy greasy — there's a fungus among us!"
[Junior-high catch-phrase, back in the day. Everybody said it; nobody knew what it meant.]
Boy watching TV for the first time
in an appliance store window, 1948
via @HistoryInPics
Post 2,277 “TheBigHenry Discovers Television?”
Friday, February 28, 2014
Kendal Loves Chocolate
• LABELS:
You had me at bacon
My youngest granddaughter's essay, "Desserts", is published in the Barrington Times:
I love chocolate, too.
Post 2,127 “Kendal Loves Chocolate”
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Bridge: The Incredible Competitive Sport
Related source » ACBL Hall of Fame - Robert (Bobby) Hamman: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“Interview with bridge great, Bobby Hamman”
— Uploaded by American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), Oct 27, 2009
[I became an ACBL Life Master in October, 1999.]
Post 2,126 “Bridge: The Incredible Competitive Sport”
Sunday, February 16, 2014
This is America, yo!
Related source » Allen West “This will send chills down your spine”: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“These talented singers gathered on the balconies of 18 floors and chose to sing our National Anthem. I defy you not to get choked up watching it.”
— Published on February 8th, 2014 | by Allen West Republic
Even if you watched it already, watch it again and then share!
Post 2,120 “This is America, yo!”
Monday, December 2, 2013
A Star Is Born
Wow! Just wow!
Related source » Amira Willighagen - for English-speaking viewers - YouTube: "http://youtu.be/qDqTBlKU4CE" 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.] h/t Newmark's Door
“Amira Willighagen sings 'O Mio Babbino Caro' on Holland's Got Talent and delivers an astounding performance which results in her being awarded a 'Golden Ticket'. This ticket allows her to proceed straight to the Live Show.”
— Talented Young Musicians, Published on Nov 6, 2013 (youtube.com)
Video clip extract © RTL Netherlands and Fremantle International
Nine-year-old Amira Willighagen’s rendition of Puccini’s O Mio Babbino Caro, October 26, 2013.
Post 2,085 “A Star Is Born”
Monday, October 7, 2013
State Slogans Improved
I'm just keeding!
Related source » List of U.S. state slogans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
| State | Current Slogan | Better | Best |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Share The Wonder | Share the Wonder Bread | Everybody chairs things, man. |
| Alaska | North to the Future | Upper U.S. | Shove it! |
| Arizona | The Grand Canyon State | The Grand Poobah State | We got the biggest ditch, bitch. |
| Arkansas | Land of Opportunity | Land of Bubba | We put cigars in their place. |
| California | The Golden State | That Bat-shit Crazy State of Mind | That's right, we sleep upsidedown. |
| Colorado | Rocky Mountain High | Higher than a kite. | Far out, dude. |
| Connecticut | Nutmeg State | Smaller than MA; bigger than RI | We're chock full of nutmeg. |
| Delaware | It's Good Being First | It's Better Being Bigger | We'll settle for second smallest. |
| District of Columbia | Celebrate and Discover | Confiscate and Visa | Progress, Congress and regress to the mean. |
| Florida | Sunshine State | The Land of Bugs | Swampland and gators! |
| Georgia | Georgia on My Mind | I Never Get Peaches | Birthplace of Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili |
| Hawaii | The Islands of Aloha | Aloha is Ahola Spelled Backwords | The living is easy; the spelling, not so much. |
| Idaho | Great Potatoes. Tasty Destinations. | The mellons are so-so. | The meat is to die from. |
| Illinois | The Land of Lincoln | The Land of Obama | Lincoln Would Be Appalled |
| Iowa | Is this heaven? | Not exactly. | Heaven's far above the Mississippi's waters. |
| Indiana | Enjoy Indiana | I've made other plans. | I'd rather sit in traffic, naked, eating glass. |
| Kansas | Kansas, as big as you think | But not as big as you'd like. | Size does matter. |
| Kentucky | Unbridled Spirit | Bridled Spirited Horses | Ubiquitous Horseshit |
| Louisiana | Come as you are. Leave Different. | Come as you like. Leave spent. | Vidi. Vici Veni. |
| Maine | There's More to Maine | Part of it's in Canada | Fuggedaboutit |
| Maryland | More Than You Can Imagine | Part of it's in Maine | We've got Delaware surrounded! |
| Massachusetts | Make It Yours | The Kennedys Own It | The Kennedys Stole It |
| Michigan | Say Yes to Michigan | Or else. | We'll make you an offer you can't refuse. |
| Minnesota | Land of 10,000 Lakes | Actually 10,037 | Lakes R Us |
| Mississippi | The South's Warmest Welcome | It's also humid. | We used to have air conditioning. It broke in '57. |
| Missouri | Show Me State | Show me yours. I'll show you mine. | We're buck naked! |
| Montana | Get Lost in Montana | Get lost, buster. | Where the f*ck are we? |
| Nebraska | Possibilities ... Endless | Probabilities ... Negligible | Go farther west, young man. |
| Nevada | Wide Open | You can check out anytime you like, but your money stays. | Better to get lost in Montana. |
| New Hampshire | You're Going to Love it Here | I liked the old one better. | You're Going to Leave It |
| New Jersey | The Garden State | The Poor Man's New York | What's that smell? |
| New Mexico | Red or Green [chili peppers] | Little Boy and Fat Man | It's the bomb, yo! |
| New York | The Empire State | The Rich Man's New Jersey | Our NFL Stadium Is in New Jersey |
| North Carolina | First in Flight | Also first in fight, bitch! | D'you wanna Duke it out, Ohio? |
[More to come …]
Further improvements are welcome via comments.
Post 2,048 “State Slogans Improved”
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Quantum Mechanics; Classical Mechanics; Music
• LABELS:
ipso facto,
Say what?,
Schrödinger,
spoof,
You had me at bacon
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| Image via Wikipedia |
Related source » 20 Jokes Only A Physics Nerd Will Appreciate: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
h/t Newmark's Door
- Quantum Mechanics:
- Classical Mechanics: (Question #9)
- Music:
On an oral exam, a music major is asked: "Tell us everything you know about Beethoven's 4th Symphony."
The student's answer: "It's the one between the 3rd and the 5th."
Correct Answers
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
50,000 Visitors to My "Remembrance in Spacetime" Blog
My visitors have come from more than 150 countries:
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| My "Remembrance in Spacetime" Blog: Country Share (Image via SiteMeter) |
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Super-Spacetime Reality
• LABELS:
Life (and Other Concepts),
Schrödinger,
You had me at bacon
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| Spacetime (Image via Wikipedia) |
In the beginning …
In the beginning, the Big Bang sparked the emergence of: time, space, energy, matter, mathematics, symmetry, entropy, self-organization, and the classification of everything. And it seemed good for about 14 giga-years.
In the twentieth century, BigAl Einstein unified: energy and matter within the Special Theory of Relativity; space and time into spacetime; spacetime and geometry within the General Theory of Relativity. Other greats, including Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Pauli, Dirac, et (Big)al., ushered in Quantum Mechanics. It was great physics, but physics seemed incomplete without a unified theory, comprising General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and everything else; a so-called Theory of Everything.
Then along came String Theory, and the promise of a Theory of Everything. It has made great strides in the last few decades, but it continues to be a work in progress.
Super-Spacetime Reality
Perhaps the most "inconvenient" truth about string theory is its insistence on at least six additional spatial dimensions, besides the three that are near and dear to us all. If you have difficulty visualizing time as the fourth dimension of spacetime, try to visualize reality described by ten dimensions! I'll wait …
It's not possible to visualize a 10-dimensional reality, because visualization is, by nature, conceptual sensing in three dimensions. There’s the rub. You can no more fit a 10-dimensional square peg into a 3-dimensional round hole than you can square the circle.
And yet it is relatively straightforward to mathematically conceptualize systems of arbitrary dimensionality, because mathematics is not constrained by visualization. Mathematical dimensionality is a generalization of the 3-dimensional visualization concept. This generalization is analogous, albeit in the opposite direction, to the simplification of 2-dimensional rendering for 3-dimensional objects, as is routinely accomplished in graphic imaging (e.g., above image).
What if we generalize not only the traditional 3-dimensional concept of visualization to its associated multi-dimensional mathematical concept, but also generalize the corresponding terminology, namely: generalize 3-dimensional visualization to multi-attribute mathematical analysis. This seems to me an enabling of interesting speculations.
If I may be so bold, I wish to consider the potential clarification enabled by thinking of 4-dimensional spacetime as "4-attribute" spacetime, instead. In so doing, I merely associate three of those attributes with the three dimensions of space, and the forth attribute with what BigAl called the "fourth dimension" of time. Seems less confusing, n'est-ce pas?
Here is my really bold speculation: Suppose that the 10-dimensional spacetime of string theory is conceptualized as our 10-attribute reality itself! I have coined such a description of reality "Super-Spacetime Reality".
Now for some fun speculations. What specifically would I attribute to those impossible-to-visualize additional six dimensions of string theory? Well, instead of how they are usually conceptualized (point-like "curled-up" dimensions), suppose we imagine they are those attributes of reality for whose existence we currently have no explanations.
For instance, what if symmetry, a very commonplace attribute of reality for whose existence we have no explanation, is in fact one of those six exotic dimensions that string theory postulates? Another intrinsic attribute of our reality is entropy, a fundamental concept of thermodynamics and information theory, but whose raison d'etre is unknown.
Yet another very interesting property of both animate and inanimate objects is the propensity for synchronization. That propensity is a form of the propensity for self-organization, namely the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos. It is possibly the essence of negative entropy. And like entropy, negative entropy or "negentropy" (as Schrödinger termed it) may also be an attribute that can be linked with one of the six additional dimensions of string theory.
What fun it is to speculate reality's in sight. Oh, such jingling of bells and whistles …
Perhaps the most "inconvenient" truth about string theory is its insistence on at least six additional spatial dimensions, besides the three that are near and dear to us all. If you have difficulty visualizing time as the fourth dimension of spacetime, try to visualize reality described by ten dimensions! I'll wait …
It's not possible to visualize a 10-dimensional reality, because visualization is, by nature, conceptual sensing in three dimensions. There’s the rub. You can no more fit a 10-dimensional square peg into a 3-dimensional round hole than you can square the circle.
And yet it is relatively straightforward to mathematically conceptualize systems of arbitrary dimensionality, because mathematics is not constrained by visualization. Mathematical dimensionality is a generalization of the 3-dimensional visualization concept. This generalization is analogous, albeit in the opposite direction, to the simplification of 2-dimensional rendering for 3-dimensional objects, as is routinely accomplished in graphic imaging (e.g., above image).
What if we generalize not only the traditional 3-dimensional concept of visualization to its associated multi-dimensional mathematical concept, but also generalize the corresponding terminology, namely: generalize 3-dimensional visualization to multi-attribute mathematical analysis. This seems to me an enabling of interesting speculations.
If I may be so bold, I wish to consider the potential clarification enabled by thinking of 4-dimensional spacetime as "4-attribute" spacetime, instead. In so doing, I merely associate three of those attributes with the three dimensions of space, and the forth attribute with what BigAl called the "fourth dimension" of time. Seems less confusing, n'est-ce pas?
Here is my really bold speculation: Suppose that the 10-dimensional spacetime of string theory is conceptualized as our 10-attribute reality itself! I have coined such a description of reality "Super-Spacetime Reality".
Now for some fun speculations. What specifically would I attribute to those impossible-to-visualize additional six dimensions of string theory? Well, instead of how they are usually conceptualized (point-like "curled-up" dimensions), suppose we imagine they are those attributes of reality for whose existence we currently have no explanations.
For instance, what if symmetry, a very commonplace attribute of reality for whose existence we have no explanation, is in fact one of those six exotic dimensions that string theory postulates? Another intrinsic attribute of our reality is entropy, a fundamental concept of thermodynamics and information theory, but whose raison d'etre is unknown.
Yet another very interesting property of both animate and inanimate objects is the propensity for synchronization. That propensity is a form of the propensity for self-organization, namely the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos. It is possibly the essence of negative entropy. And like entropy, negative entropy or "negentropy" (as Schrödinger termed it) may also be an attribute that can be linked with one of the six additional dimensions of string theory.
What fun it is to speculate reality's in sight. Oh, such jingling of bells and whistles …
Post 1,996 “Super-Spacetime Reality”
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Peter Stiff on Ponzi 101, Q.E. ∞ and Politics
The Multi-talented Stand-up Economist
Related source » Video: Performing Stand Up For "New York`s Funniest Reporter": 'via Blog this'
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“Peter Schiff … at Comic Strip Live in New York City. Peter jokes about the national debt and the Federal Reserve.”
— Peter Schiff, July 21, 2013 (peterschiffblog.blogspot.com)
It only hurts when I laugh!
Post 1,993 “Peter Stiff on Ponzi 101, Q.E. ∞ and Politics”
Monday, July 22, 2013
A Gigamile 'Hi, Mom!'
• LABELS:
Oh the humanity,
pic = 1000 words,
Rule6,
You had me at bacon
"Hi, Mom!"
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| (Photo by NASA/JPL/Cassini/Guillermo Abramson) “A pale, blue speck below Saturn's rings” |
Related source » Cassini spacecraft photographs Earth from 900 million miles away: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“High above the planet Saturn on Friday, Cassini took photographs of that pixel we live on, backlit by Saturn's rings. If you looked at the skies, chances are you were photographed from space by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, almost a billion miles away.”
— Published July 22, 2013 (foxnews.com)
That's TheBigHenry waving in the upper-right corner of that pale, blue pixel.
Post 1,989 “A Gigamile 'Hi, Mom!'”
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Good, the Ugly and the Fugly
• LABELS:
feed the crazy,
Oh the humanity,
You had me at bacon
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| A woman smoking crack from a glass pipe. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
“There's good. There's not good. This is not good.”
Duplicate bridge is, arguably, the greatest game known to man and, unfortunately, to many vile women as well. It is played the world over by people from all walks of life, including billionaires, youngsters, invalids, the deaf, the legally blind, and some who are certifiably insane. The only requirements for a modicum of success is a functioning brain and a thirst for psychological mayhem. It is, in a word — exhilarating.
And yet, there is also a downside. If you want to observe humanity in action, warts and all, step inside your local bridge club during a typical afternoon game. The self-absorbed ugliness is palpable. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned? Fuhgeddaboudit. Try giving a menopausal bitch a bad score on a deal. It's fugly, bro.
So why continue to engage, you might wonder. Well, for one thing, competitive bridge is more addictive than crack cocaine (or so I imagine it to be). Once you are hooked on the game, you have to get your weekly (often daily) fix, and people have been known to drive 160 miles round-trip just to play for several hours.
Yes indeed, masochism is alive and well …
And yet, there is also a downside. If you want to observe humanity in action, warts and all, step inside your local bridge club during a typical afternoon game. The self-absorbed ugliness is palpable. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned? Fuhgeddaboudit. Try giving a menopausal bitch a bad score on a deal. It's fugly, bro.
So why continue to engage, you might wonder. Well, for one thing, competitive bridge is more addictive than crack cocaine (or so I imagine it to be). Once you are hooked on the game, you have to get your weekly (often daily) fix, and people have been known to drive 160 miles round-trip just to play for several hours.
Yes indeed, masochism is alive and well …
Post 1,966 “The Bad, the Ugly and the Fugly”
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