Mirrors

 

The Man in the Mirror.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change

What if we live in the mirror!

In a prior blog post, I despaired that teenage Trekkie me would be very disappointed because I proposed that rather than moving to hyperspace when we exceeded Warp Factor 1, we were already in hyperspace. I would like to now propose that we are also living in a mirror in which case the teenage Trekkie me would be very happy that we are living in the episode Mirror, Mirror of Star Trek TOS (the one where Mr. Spock has a goatee), in the universe of the Imperial Star Ship, ISS, Enterprise. This is hardly a new concept. Lewis Carrol explored it in his novel where Alice went Through the Looking Glass and proposed that the behavior outside of what can immediately be seen in the mirror would be very different than what we ordinarily experience. Again this is hardly a new concept since the ancient Greek philosopher Plato proposed that what we can perceive is only the shadow of reality on the wall of our cave. In other words our universe is an  example of the Analogy of the Cave in his work the Republic.

If we live in hyperspace, within one sheet of a two-sheeted hyperboloid, then what we can perceive will not be what happens in the other sheet. While the other sheet has to be the opposite sign of the one from which we are observing, the question is whether that sheet is normally positive or negative. The conventional wisdom has been that the sheet we are perceiving is positive, which makes the other sheet negative. If instead it is negative and what we perceive is in hyperbolic space, then a normal distribution can explain almost all of the infinite domain but finite range of the  absolute. However if what is perceived is positive, then the absolute has to be ABnormal and can NOT be a wave, filling all of the unobservable but known range. The  problem is that a wave function has to be definable and cyclic, repeating, in every quadrant. An absolutely false distribution can not be a wave, normal, because the second derivative of a wave function, has to be the same as the integral of that wave function. If it is positive then that its second derivative, the fourth quadrant of a wave's cycle, has to be undefinable, the negative of a logarithm.

While a winning, true and NORMAL distribution can satisfy the wave function, a winning, true and ABNORMAL distribution can NOT. Thus the behavior of a group of individuals emulating the entire range of the absolute must be winning, true and NORMAL. That also means that at most the individuals acting as a group can achieve 96% of an absolute and still be normal, which is where false losses are equal to false wins. But not all normal distributions are true. Individuals in a group emulating an absolute must follow a distribution that is winning, normal and TRUE.

{.96, .02, 0, .02} is the maximum right-handed skew of the normal distribution,
{2/3, 1/6,  0, 1/6}.  But  {.97, .01, 0, .01} is ABNORMAL. Solutions that are greater than
{.50, .25, 0, .25} will  winning, normal and TRUE but the maximum, left-handed skew,
{2/(4.52), 1/(4.52), 0, 1/(4.52)} is winning, normal and FALSE, In order for it to be winning, normal and TRUE, it first has to be the negative portion of the full cycle of the absolute in hyperspace. If we insist on perceiving this as the positive portion of a wave of the absolute, then the wave that is inferred is only one line of the observable, not the entire range of the absolute. The man in the mirror is not only in hyperspace, but he is also the negative of the absolute.

The Middle

 

Bein’ Green

It's not easy bein' green
It seems you blend in
With so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over
Cause you're not standing out
Like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky

But thank you for being green!

There is an over emphasis today on Red states and Blue states, two positions.  That is not very different than seeing things in only Black and White, in 2-D.  To see things in color, three positions, 3-D, it does requires Red and Blue, but in the middle of those colors, it also requires GREEN, RGB. When things are in color, 3-D, we consider them normal.  Adding Green does not merely add one to the number of shades which are possible.  It does not even double the number of shades which are possible. It squares the number of shades which are possible. 

But green's the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like an ocean
Or important like a mountain
Or tall like a tree

Let’s hear it for Bein’ Green.

Hyperspace

 

Hyperspace

My life is hyperspace

Summer days

Out of phase

From the praise

Gamma rays

Touching base

Just in case

What if hyperspace is real and flat space is the illusion?

One of the cooler Visual Special Effects, VFX, in cinema is the jump by a spacecraft from flat, normal, Euclidean space to hyperspace.. That jump is why Chief Engineer Scott in Star Trek TOS, when asked to provide Warp Factor 10 says “Aye, and maybe a wee bit more”, where Warp Factor 1.0 is v/c=1, when you leave flat, normal, Euclidean space and enter Hyperspace. Thus the Trekkie in me would NOT be happy to hear that we are already in hyperspace and it is Euclidean space that is the illusion.

But if there is

One Absolute,

Two outcomes for truth, true and false, but  

Three outcomes for a contest: Win, Loss, and Tie, and only two of those outcomes (Win and Loss) are observably stable, and the three dimension of space are width, length, and height,   

the Fourth  dimension of time is  connected to the three dimensions of space by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. Then reality might be represented by a single absolute shared by those dimensions, and . 

the Fifth dimension is imagination/mind/√-1, and the coefficient of a surface in reality is kept constant by making its coefficient zero.

Then, rather than a pair of inverted light cones in Euclidean space, the result would be consistent with a two-sheeted hyperboloid with a single absolute at the center of those two sheets,  shared by the two sheets, and the separation between the two sheets is zero. Then …  if  a surface passes though the center it would exist in both sheets but would be perceived from each sheet as never leaving that sheet, even though a formula could exist slightly in the other sheet.

Thus rather than flat, Euclidean, space where each dimension has two absolutes, one at each end of the dimension, a two-sheeted hyperboloid where the surface was hyperbolic; the dimension of time would be a differential equation of the three dimensions of space; and there would be zero separation between the two-sheets. This would give the same results as inverted light cones in flat, Euclidean, space where the apexes of perpendicular elliptical light cones touch.

In this case Einstein’s complaint about quantum mechanics that God (the absolute) does not play dice with the universe could instead be God (the absolute) DOES play dice with the universe, but God uses loaded dice and only He knows their true value, and thus only God knows the result of each roll of the dice.

A 5^th dimensional volume with a single shared absolute between the two-sheets of a hyperboloid and hyperbolic space as a surface between those sheets, is solved by hyperbolic trigonometric equations. Any formula can approach the absolute but never have its results be the absolute,  i.e. a group of x individuals can emulate but not be an absolute. The solution to x²=a²+b² is NOT a single solution √(a²+b²) which can be real or imaginary depending on the values of a and b, but is instead 
x=(0 ± cosh(√(a²+b²)) and that is a complex number with real and imaginary components but two solutions, one of which is the negative of the other.

AI?

 

Well Respected Man

Cause he's oh, so good
And he's oh, so fine
And he's oh, so healthy
In his body and his mind
He's a well respected man about town
Doing the best things so conservatively 

What about an Artificial Man?

The Kinks had a hit with Well Respected Man.  They were less fortunate but had something to say about Artificial Man in their album  Preservation Act 2 that had way less critical acclaim but was just as insightful.  Things aren’t always what they seem.  Just because you call it Artificial Intelligence does not mean that it is INTELLIGENT.  It is definitely Artificial, we can all agree on that.  But AI is only Artificial INFERENCE in that it can only be trained on data which it has encountered, NOT on what it has NOT encountered.  When it encounters something unexpected, then its inference can be correct, or it can be hallucinating, making the wrong inference from that input. What it choses can never be better than its training data.  It has no more than a non-artificial, a real, intelligence chance of being correct.  At most game theory and statistics tell us that an individual agent can have no more than a 5/6, 83.33% chance of being correct.  If you want to rely on what the AI tells you to do then understand that the AI deserves no more respect than you do.  You individually might be only 50% certain.  But collectively a group of 12 individuals, an unbiased jury, might be 99.99...% certain.  So a group of humans are still better than a single AI. That single AI can not be more than 83.33% correct.  A single AI can never be more certain than a jury of unbiased humans, but that jury approaches 100% certainty.  

Free Speech II

 

Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

All at once, the moon clouded over,
We heard a gurgling cry.
A few seconds later, the captain's helmet
Was all that floated by.
The Sergeant said, "Turn around men!
I'm in charge from now on."
And we just made it out of the Big Muddy
With the captain dead and gone.

A Big Fool is free to speak, but you have to be free not to listen.

Peter Seeger’s song was about foolishly following a Captain into the Big Muddy when the Captain did not have the correct information. This action cost the Captain his life.  The Sergeant and the men of his platoon would have also paid that price if they had listened to, obeyed, the Captain. And that is what free speech is all about. No one is absolutely certain unless that person is also the absolute. Everybody , not just the  absolute,  is free to state their opinion, but it is just that,  their opinion, not the facts. Free Speech is your opinion. Acting if that opinion is the Truth is what has consequences, not the opinion itself. You should follow the truth, not obey an opinion.

You are free to give your opinion, but your opinion is NOT an order, nor should it be. If you follow that opinion, act as if it were the truth, then you will share in the consequences of that opinion if it is false. I will defend your right to free speech, opinion, to the death. But you, and everyone that accepts your opinion as the truth, has to accept the consequences of that speech. It is the action, not the speech, that has consequences. Free speech? Yes. Actions without consequences? No.

Sports

Wide World of Sports Theme Song

Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports:
The thrill of victory
And the agony of defeat
The human drama of athletic competition
This is ABC's Wide World of Sports.

In anticipation of the upcoming Olympics I want to honor some of my favorite sports clips.

Sports are a group activity, not just for the players and their owners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIzLllotJpk

The group is stronger than any competitor. Watch Canadian hockey fans sing their national anthem before an Edmonton Oilers game.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XfMdiwd_LA8

Even when the power went out at a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game with the Nashville Predators, the Canadian fans took over in singing the national anthem of the USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSaHRd4Q48

But this was before the current picking of a fight with Canada,.  Here are Canadian hockey fans booing the US national anthem.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXkRNnvs2S8

Do you know how bad you have to be to get a Canadian sports fan mad at you?

Theme songs by fans are a tradition in sports. Here is a version of  Take Me Out To the Ballgame which is sung by the crowd in the seventh inning stretch at baseball games,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Jim3U8ylE

or Sweet Caroline during the eighth inning stretch at Red Sox Games,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYBrZkyK1g

or the singing of You’ll Never Walk Alone before Liverpool futbol matches.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zVe7bvDkhbc

The summer Olympics traditionally finish with the Marathon because every runner who competes is a winner. Life is a Marathon, NOT a Sprint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYnNOA9U3cM

Remember “When the game has been decided, and you’re just burning out the clock” hold tight to your anger and don’t give into your fears. Play on and you'll never walk alone.

National Anthems

 

This Land is Your Land

This land is your land, and this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters|
This land was made for you and me.

My country right or wrong?

The anthem, This Land Is Your Land, of love for  the United States of America was written by Woody Guthrie in response to the adoption of God Bless America by Christian Nationalists.  Christian Nationalists should also be aware that God Bless America was written by a  Jew, Irving Berlin, who was born Israel Isidore Beilin. ( the fact that he also wrote White Christmas, where White referred only to snow, and Easter Parade might also surprise those same Christian Nationalists)

Rather than dueling anthems, each  thinking that they alone are correct, as the Buffalo Springfield sang “Nobody’s right, if everybody’s wrong.”  A better statement is that "My Country, Right or Wrong" is correct, but this is statement alone is INcomplete.  The correct full statement should be “My Country Right or Wrong.  If it’s Right, KEEP it Right, but if it’s Wrong, MAKE it Right."  That is real love of country that both sides should find correct.