Hump Day Woolgathering

What I jotted down in my iPad Notes app at 6 am…

Toward a New Paradigm of Science

Primacy of the Terminator’s Arm Paradox

Archetype of “Old Science” as Victorian bookkeepers with sleeve garters, green eyeshades, and quill pens scratching on parchment at their copy desks

Melville’s Parable of “Bartleby the Scrivener”

The Search for Syntropy

The original definition of Quantum Computing:  A system that processes all possible approaches and outcomes simultaneously

The Facts of Life in Our Universe. 

• 95 percent of the visible universe is beyond the ability of our technology to see
• 95 percent of the universe as a whole is not visible but consists of dark matter and dark energy
• The existence of other universes (multiverses, parallel universes, etc) is purely speculative but not disprovable
• The array of constants that underpins the universe we experience is an exceedingly rare combination of set points, the absence of any one of which would produce nothing but a chaotic void

My Contribution: Restoration of the infinite, even divine, powers of two words scorned by the pedagogues of writing in the 20th Century: the verb “to be” and the noun “thing”.

Now it’s time for a nap already…