Line 9

We can only approximate.

Line 8

No one cares about the truth.

Line 5

It seems like much of the troubles of quantum physics rest on the human bias for the number one.

Analogy

I know I once was not,
and so, that I will someday not be,
becomes easier to grasp.

So this is the world…

what you see,
what you get,
and nothing more.

Line 3

I can feel it,
I can taste it,
that nothingness…

a bang from that which pushed against your ear
a snap, and the end begins
the world gone, even the knowledge that it is

How heavy the thought,
how irreversible the act,
yet how terribly inconsequential to the world.

Line 2

The thing with a human is that he can always take a step back, seemingly infinitely.

Inseparable

O humans!

Our perception
science,
Our expression
art!

Art
with a shade of science,
Science
with a touch of art.

Fetishes

Taken from: xkcd

Je t’aime, Einstein

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

A reply

There was this news story at digg about the relation between beauty and health. I found this very interesting and relevant. I’ve always held such view and felt it’s somewhat accepted and a given, but this study made me double check whether it was premature for me to do so when research was still underway and many more.

Anyway, some of the comments, as usual, put me off. One of my pet peeves is when people dismiss a study or opinion of an expert as obvious, stupid and pointless, among others. It’s utterly disrespectful to the people who spent years of studying and researching about that subject. At one particular comment, which said (not in a rude way) that the study is pointless, annoyance got better of me that I wrote an entire treatise in reply. I exaggerate of course.

Yeah, you’re a genius. You can judge how relevant a study is by just sitting on your couch so these scientists with years of education, not to mention research, should sit by your side and scribble hastily as you recite your infallible words of wisdom.

Filler.

Just another filler,
until Utopia.

Let us salivate collectively

Through means I won’t tell for fear of being sued, but which will be stupidly obvious anyway, I now possess gazillions of scifi novels. My new collection includes Amazon dreams like Rendezvous with Rama and, OMG I JUST LEARNED NOW, The Illuminatus and Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogies! Then there’s also my forgotten love, the Christomanci series, other classics most notably Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheeps?” and a whole heap of a lot lot lot lot lot moreness. I am still in awe.

I’ll post a list of noteworthy novels later. I swear I’ll really update this time. Tee-hee.

The partial wonderfulness:

RIP, Sir Arthur Charles Clarke

My favorite science fiction writer passed away today. It really surprised me; I had no idea. I was browsing through a website I visit almost everyday when I read a comment: “R I P Arthur C. Clarke. But don’t worry – your ghost will live on.” My head jerked at this, in shock, and began muttering “Oh my god. Oh my god” while typing in at wikipedia to confirm. And it was:

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008)

I didn’t cry or anything, but this is truly sad. He, more than anyone else, wanted to live as long as possible to see as much as the future he dedicated his life to imagine. In fact I’m quite sure there’s a quote somewhere that, in usual Clarke fashion of simple profoundness, placed these exact thoughts into words. I must find it.

In the meantime, let me repost my favorite quote of his ever:

“And because, of all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere.” – 2010: The Second Odyssey

I LOVE Xenocide

Die you bloody scoffers. It’s great in its own right! Sure:

a. storytelling is terrible
b. characters are such pain in the ass
c. including Ender

But it still has a LOT of redeeming qualities. Forget the narration and the characters, the whole new world of science that opened left me amazed. Or maybe I’m just too gullible?

Warning: Ender’s series up to Xenocide spoilers ahead.