Reason

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The current crisis is a test to our intelligence. Other mammals do not spend their time finding a way out of the world crisis. I myself have problems. People around me go about their lives with a business as usual attitude. I feel unsettled.

The Latin word I have in this note means to predict, to say it before it happens. That is what reason is for.

My reason is hard at work to find a valid prediction, for me and for the world.

Discrete Quantum Cosmology

One can read from Chew:

"Although consistency requires slice width to be an integral multiple of arc step, the huge-integer ratio will not be addressed by the present paper—which ignores arc steps and number theory. Before attending to path arcs this paper chooses to address the single-preon Hilbert-space path basis. Nevertheless the termination of path arcs at exceptional (ray-age) hyperboloids might be taken as defining the path basis of preon Fock space."

This is one place where number theory may enter into play for Chew's Theory.

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Geoffrey F. Chew

This UC Berkely Professor believes that:

"number theory may eventually render non-arbitrary the integral ratio of spacetime-slice width to path step. Particle scale would thereby, like path step, become set by the trio of universal parameters G, h and c, whose values Planck realized do not require ‘explanation’."

I do not yet understand what Professor Chew is saying. I know that he has looked into the conundrums of particle physics longer than I have. Nevertheless I also believe that number theory has something to tell us about why the world is as it is.

For me the main problem of Physics today is to explain stability. Why in a Hydrogen atom is an electron always moving around a proton and never going inside the proton? To say that that is forbidden by Quantum Mechanics, is philosophically a poor practice. What is first stability, or Quantum Mechanics?

Totally-Relativistic Elementary Particles

Macroscopically-Discrete Quantum CosmologyGeoffrey F. ChewGreat Physicist proposing new ideas

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Amateur Astronomer Spots ‘Cosmic Ghost’ Unknown Until Now

A Dutch primary school teacher and amateur astronomer has discovered what some are calling a "cosmic ghost," a strange, gaseous object with a hole in the middle that may represent a new class of astronomical object

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Mexico and Brazil Now Top 10 Creditors to US Government!

As the US external debt continues to spiral out of control, nations that were previously severely indebted to the US are now lending money to their former creditor.So when will the American public come to its senses and DEMAND major budget cuts and an end to the war?

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Ubuntu wins “Best Desktop Solution” at Linux World Expo 2008

I just wanted to extended a huge “thank you!” to all of the Ubuntu community. Today Ubuntu won the “Best Desktop Solution” Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2008 in San Francisco, California for a second consecutive year.

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24,000+ signatures for Mexico's iPhone 3G Petition (English)

Telcel's plans include a ridiculous 100-200 MB for data. Once you go over, they start charging you $4 dollars per additional MB. Plus, their 'unlimited' plan offers you 3GB @ 3G speeds, then slows down to a crawl (128Kbps). The national media is ignoring us. Help us Digg, you're our only hope!

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Physicist's Verified Quantum-"Uncollapse" Hypothesis

In 2006, Andrew Jordan, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, together with Alexander Korotkov at the University of California, Riverside, spelled out how to exploit a quantum quirk to accomplish a feat long thought impossible, and this week a research team at the University of California at Santa Barbara has tested the

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Strong Bad coming to Wii and PC

It's a little later than everyone expected, but Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People is finally coming to both the Wii and PC next week. Adventure Gamers is reporting that Telltale has announced the game's imminent arrival, which is sure to have Homestar Runner fans chomping at the bit.

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Olé! This Spanish Summer

As the Olympics begin, Spain is reveling in an extraordinary string of sporting triumphs that owe something to the knowledge that sports are also a fight to the death.

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Ubuntu

My son revived an old Dell computer that had gone out of commission some time ago. He made two partitions one for Microsoft, and the other for open source. He has "some" old games, and he needs the MS partition.

He is using the Ubuntu distribution for the Linux side, and XP for the MS side.

I guess I'll hear about the distribution quarrels from now on.

I am proud of him.

Learning to Speak Climate

The three phrases of climate change are easy to learn. The first is: “Just a few years ago ...”

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An Illegal Immigrant, in Need of Care

To the Editor:.

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Shiretoko Alpha

I am experimenting with the alpha version of the Mozilla browser. Also I see that my ScribeFire looks different, I guess I have not used this combination before.

I see a right window with Blogs, Entries, etc.. The Entries Section shows me other pieces I'd written in this blog. The Options Section allows me to add Technocrati tags, and TrackBack URLs. The Blogs Section allows me to add other Blogs. I just added my other Blog. It is in Spanish if you are interested:

Matemática Educativa

OK, here you have it.

Mexican Peso Continues Dramatic Surge Against US Dollar

And beleive it or not, the United States Government now OWES MEXICO money. You know that the US is making bad monetary decisions now. "Mexico's peso firmed to a six-year high on Monday as lower oil prices eased some economic fears and investors bet on higher local interest rates, while stocks sank to a six-month low."

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Going to Mexico? Better pack more dollars

The Mexican peso’s value surged against the dollar today and crossed a milestone: At the official exchange rate (i.e., the rate for big-money transactions) one dollar now buys fewer than 10 pesos.

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Curvature

Long ago I thought that curvature was a deep concept we owe to Carl Friedrich Gauss. Then I saw that phase-space was deep also. It seems that now more people are coming to the same conclusion. Here I try a simple interpretation in my understanding of Julian Barbour's ideas.

Pattern is time. We know what comes next because of our expectations. The arrow of time is as real as the persistence of objects. Linear predictions are called common sense, but Ray Kurzweil has shown us to extrapolate with non-linear functions. Gauss then is the master of prediction. If we know the curvature in a local region, we know if linear or non-linear predictions are needed. Einstein also saw in curvature the key to a theory of physics.

Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and now Perelman's Theory of Ricci Flows, must be related. The relation may be Barbour's idea that there is no time, only patterns.

More to come.

Poincaré's Conjecture 1

"This conjecture states that the only compact three dimensional simply connected manifold is a three dimensional sphere."

Also we can say:

"that every compact and simply connected 3-manifold is a 3-sphere".

I am back. I was away from a nice place where to think and write. I found this statement in:

Christina Sormani's, piece on this intriguing piece of Mathematics.

I hope I can understand the General Relativity and Thermodynamics implications of Perelman's work.