Del apuro solo queda el cansancio

Learn

LAO-TZEc.604 - c.521 BC

Chinese Philosopher
Lao-tze is the reputed author of the'Tao Te Ching' and founder of the Taoist religion in China. His name means 'Old Master' and 'Tao' means the 'Way'. The 'Tao Te Ching' teaches a nonagressive approach to life and a stoical indifference to the powers of the world. It called for a return to an imaginary simple way of the past and for a style of life in harmony with the universe. It says that man must imitate the universe, which endures because it does not live for itself. Lao-tze worked as a librarian at the court of Chou. When the kingdom showed signs of decay, Lao-tze left and was never heard of again.
Legend says that Lao-tze, saddened by the evil of men, set off into the desert on a water buffalo leaving civilization behind. When he arrived at the final gate at the great wall protecting the kingdom, the gatekeeper persuaded him to record the principles of his philosophy for posterity. The result was the eighty-one sayings of the 'TaoTe Ching.'

Baseball Education

The always Big Leaguer Andres "El Gato" Galarraga retires (in a way) from professional baseball only to restart to teach baseball to children in Venezuela.

Bravo!

More Leibniz

I have rediscovered Leibniz by rediscovering Chaitin who also rediscovered Leibniz (but I don't know by rediscovering who, sorry, hmh, probably Goedel) , anyway, Leibniz dixit

"Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity
but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity."

Then I read this essay by Chaitin and then he says:

The simpler the theory, the better you understand
something. A very
complex
theory means something is wrong.

No more also-reads

in the adsabs.harvard.edu, why?

Not swinging yet

http://arxiv.org/abs/math.DG/0505634

The paper has been withdrawn by the author due to the inappropriate formulation
of the main theorem used in the paper. We do hope the gap can be fulfilled in
the near future.

I read some and it *would* be really nice to fill that gap.

Some Also-Read articles

1
2004math.....12125A
141.000
12/2004
A X U
Alayon-Solarz, Daniel
On Some Modifications of the Fueter Operator
2
2004math.ph..12013A
31.000
12/2004
A X U
Alayon-Solarz, Daniel
A Very Brief Note on Some Commutative Algebraic Properties of a Dirac-Fueter Modified Equation
3
2005astro.ph..3200C
16.000
03/2005
A X C U H
Chapline, G.
Dark Energy Stars
4
2005hep.th....4078W
11.000
04/2005
A X U H
Witten, Edward
Two-Dimensional Models With (0,2) Supersymmetry: Perturbative Aspects
5
2005math......3081T
11.000
03/2005
A X U
Thurston, William P.
Mathematical Education
6
2005hep.th....3249F
9.000
03/2005
A X U H
Fox, P. J.; Kaplan, D. E.; Katz, E.; Poppitz, E.; Sanz, V.; Schmaltz, M.; Schwartz, M. D.; Weiner, N.
Supersplit Supersymmetry
7
2005gr.qc.....3097S
9.000
03/2005
A X C U H
Susskind, Leonard
Wormholes and Time Travel? Not Likely

The (scientific) world swings again (??)

I think that if Leibniz was alive today he would be certainly reading this paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/math.DG/0412316

Look to this beautiful simple idea: S^6 is contained on the imaginary octonions and then he somehow evades the old non-integrability stuff.

Questions:

1) Exotic diphemorphism in S^6 are expressed with the use of quaternionic exponential, a function is defintely ruled by the Class II. What is the relationship between this complex estructrure and the exotic diphemorphisms? I guess there is something here having to do with the riemann manifold that result as the analytical continuation of the Class II. The dimension is also 6.

2) Why Ed Witten wouldn't answer my emails about his paper?:

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504078

named: Two-Dimensional Models With (0,2) Supersymmetry: Perturbative Aspects

In my case the perturbation comes after his silence. What do people have email for? Can't they just have courtesy and say: "I am busy, sorry" or "I don't care/ I am not interested" or "your mirror operator and my mirror operator are very alike, maybe there is some sort of bridge here". I am afraid this smoke signal of blogging will supercede private non-communication.

Quaternions and phenomenology

A New Family Symmetry: Discrete Quaternion Group

by Michele Frigerio

Animations II

Peter Woit landscapbashes with dexterity this 16 may.

Lubos Motl shows us some amazing plugin that will change the way he writes his own blog. Install it now!

I am unemployed and enjoying. Looking for a jobb, you know. Here you all have a warpy, is twistie that has more to do with logarithms than anything else.