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Thursday, April 17, 2003 The Thursday Threesome: Family Waffle & Grill Onesome: Family- Hmmm... It seems like this weekend is a get together time for some people. How about you? Do you have a family gig to attend this weekend? Hosting one? ...or are you spending the weekend doing weekend things? I live too far away (and have too little money) to do casual things with my family on the weekend. So I'm probably going to do what I usually do: sleep or work at the lab. Twosome: Waffle- Okay, here's the tough one: Waffles or Pancakes? You should hear the discussions in some households! ...and what about those Belgian things? Inquiring minds want to know! I'm not a picky eater, unlike some people. So either is fine since 90% of the time I'm not the one making them. As for those Belgian things, here is a website for those inquiring minds. And yes, geometry does not affect taste! Threesome: & Grill- The outdoor cooking season is close at hand! For those who live large outdoors, are we talking grilling or barbecuing? If you enjoy cooking outside, what is your specialty? ...and for the indoor crowd: do you cook anything reminiscent of outdoor cookery? Grilling? Barbecuing? The closest you'll see me to an open flame will be the bunsen burner on my lab bench cooking some bacteria involved in food poisoning. And for those of you who actually read through the meme or clever enough to skip through it, some links! Parallel Universes. The Multiverse Theory--no longer limited to hard core comic book fans. Assuming that there is an infinite amount of space, it is inevitable that the arrangement of particles will start repeating so at some distance, there is a copy of everyone somewhere. This is the Level I Multiverse. In the Level II Multiverse, the universal constants are different. For instance, in our universe, there are three observable dimensions. In another universe, they might have three completely different dimensions (or maybe three additional dimensions!). The Level III Multiverse differs at the quantum level. Although the author's talk about collapsing wave functions painfully reminds me of some quantum classes I took not too long ago, the easiest way to explain level three is via probability and symmetry. At every point in time, there is a decision that has to be made. The phone rings--do you pick it up or let the answering machine do it? Instead of really doing one or the other, you do both--but at that moment, two different universes split off with one of you getting the phone and the other one of you being lazy. This will also explain the seeming paradox of Schrodinger's cat. The cat is both alive and dead because there is a different universe for each of those states. And then of course, the Level IV Multiverse where anything can be possible due to shear mathematical variety. This means that there can be a universe which solely consists of empty polygons floating around. Or where pigs can fly. Or where humans are actually slimy cannabilistic worms. And perhaps, if the Level IV Multiverse can be proven, there is a universe somewhere where everyone lives forever. Metaphysically disturbing, no? Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst. (via Speckled Paint) This is an exhibit from Duke's medical library. Woodcuts on eye defects galore! William Morris Society. Some awesome 19th century design and illustration. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 4:41 AM : ]
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