-cvj

Yes, comment was deliberately left ambiguous.

CIP, I would also wish for a palette chooser for genius (or IQ) coupled to the appropriate palettes. That would help immensely!:-)

So to be fair, I though I would share link for extra thinking that I had incurred by way of “conversation” and recognition of your article.

May I use your picture( of course remembering your photographic talents) and directly link it back to this blog entry?

Thanks,

Has anyone come up with a Maple program that has a palette of clickable surfaces of appropriate genus coupled to the appropriate calculational factors?

-cvj

http://static.flickr.com/5/9028007_b1e093dc16.jpg

Police Detective: Dr. Johnson was murdered last night. Here’s what we found on his blackboard. We think there’s a connection.

Belizean: It looks like he was trying to systematically sum the contributions from various closed string topologies that would…, OH MY GOD!

Detective: What!? What?!!

Belizean: He was trying to calculate an OBSERVABLE! A string theory OBSERVABLE!!

Detective: Could that have gotten him killed?

Belizean: Good God, man. Don’ t you understand! Had he succeeded it would have been the end of everything! A multi-billion dollar global industry of speculative calculation divorced from experimental confirmation could have been destroyed! The elimination of brane world scenarios alone would have caused so much unemployment that…

Detective: Sounds like a motive to me.

Dissident’s link above.

Maybe it was the “freedom” he was referring too, and the simple life, that allowed for such freedoms?:)

Imagine getting paid to draw on blackboards, and about things that are so abstract. It would take a quantum leap?

Plumbers are real people too, with their ingenuities on awards ( I can see Einsteins humour to being awarded such a title). I mean “imagine” Mark Sean, Clifford and the Group describing for us issues about energy and flows, using pipe references.

As part of Cosmic Variance, they are really now offering their plumbing franchise links to Cosmic Plumber Incorporated. I knew they had a plan.

And who said blackboards are outdated? It’s the best way to work out thoughts. White backgrounds don’t offer the best nuetrality; in my world, black grounds the mind.

Thanks for sharing.

And I also missed that it was all about pants, as some suggested. One can even see ( in (3,1,0) ) a man’s pants!

i like the way that you can ‘add’ and ‘multiply’ the tubes and that the ‘equal’ something.

are the quotation marks around the ‘x’ on the lower right eqn, becuase you didn’t know it was valid? or its not really a multiplication sign?

on the blackboard theme… in high school my advanced calculus class figured out that a trig class used our room after us.

so some cruel soul thought that instead of having the good ol’ “SOHCAHTOA” as a method of remembering the trig relationships, he put up “SAHCAOTOH”.

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And no Lubos, I don’t drive a Rolls Royce. That would be a very odd choice of car for me…but thanks, I guess. On the other hand, I could well see myself taking that long and roundabout way of solving such a problem! (Fingers crossed that I don’t ever have to solve that problem……)

Moshe, Sean, erc: It is a real working board from an afternoon at Aspen. It began as a list of things figured out elsewhere (with James Carlisle at Durham), written neatly to see if I could see a pattern in the summary, but then further computations and speculations followed in real time. The board is small so it encourages neatness in order to use the space well.

Then I was moving away form the office and so I took a snapshot to allow me to record my thougths. Always present on my laptop for later reference.

Later….

-cvj

As the mother of a toddler…. pasta shapes.

Intake and exhaust manifolds. and the accompanying pipes.