Hope

 

Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart

I still recall the thrill, guess I always will
I hope 'twill never depart
All nature seemed to be in perfect harmony
Zing! Went the strings of my heart

Do you HOPE, or are OPTIMISTIC, that the thrill will never depart?

The difference between Hope and Optimism is that Hope is outward looking for a group while Optimism is inward looking for an individual.  The saying "Those that can do, and those that can’t teach" is IMHO from a User Optimal, individual, perspective.  From a group, System Optimal, perspective it would be "Those who care only about themselves do, those who care about others teach." 

My native state, Rhode Island has a motto, featured on the state flag, of Hope.  The iconic Barack Obama print featured the word Hope.  Corinthians, 3:13 “Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love.”  Long live Hope.

Polling III

 

Something

Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

Do Something?

According to Game Theory in economics, it takes three players to form a perfect game.  (Yes it is seems like there are only two teams, but what about the refs?) N users can try to serve as a system, but the rule of three remains.  Let's call one third of the system "Do Something".  Let's call one third of the system "Burn Everything".  That means that any decisions will be up to that the remaining third.  Let's call them "Burn Some Things, but Keep Some Things" 

That means that any unbiased poll should at least be 44.4%, 1/3 + just under half of 1/3; and that same poll should be no more than 55.6%, 1/3 + just over half of 1/3.  I would not get to excited about any single political poll that shows less than 50%.  It is the trend which shows how that middle third is leaning that is important. A single poll for a single political event is no better than touting a horse race.  It is better to BE the house than to try to BEAT the house. 

But having said that anything can happen at a single political event, say on election day in November, this is my fantasy scenario.  The Democrats take the House of Representatives AND the White House, but the Republicans take the Senate by 51-49.  Bloodshed ensues as promised.  But the Electoral College meets, votes, and the combined House and Senate certifies.  But even though the Senate is controlled by Republicans, there is no deadlock in the ensuing years.  Either Senator Murkowski or Senator Collins change parties and become independents and caucus with the Democrats, making the Senate 50-50 and Vice President Harris goes back to breaking ties. Maybe both will switch parties and it becomes 51-49 the other way and VP Harris gets a rest.  Will I be betting on this?  Don't be silly.  Will I be surprised by this? Absolutely not.

Classifications

 

Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful

Do I want you because you're wonderful,
Or are you wonderful because I want you?
Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream
Or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

Why can’t it be both? Wonderful AND Beautiful.

There is a basic tendency to classify things. If you are to classify anything there have to be at least two classifications: odd and even; day and night; yin and yang; side one and side two; etc. There can be more than two classifications, but not fewer.  But how should an absolute be classifed? There was an advertising campaign for Miller Lite Beer in the 1980s: Less Filling, Tastes Great. The advertisements typically took place in the form of an argument by each side as to which side the beer belonged. The punch line is that it belonged to both. It was Less Filling AND Tastes Great.

The concept of being both things is hardly unique to Miller Lite Beer. Certs Mints had a similar advertising campaign. Is it a candy mint? Is it a breath mint? It’s two, two, two mints in one. 

In mathematics, infinity is an absolute. An integer might be classified as odd or even. So is infinity odd or even? This is not a trivial question. If an integer is even, then at half of that integer there is an equal amount above and below that integer. And half of an even integer is still an integer. By contrast, if an integer is odd, then at half of that integer there is also an equal amount above and below that value.  But half of an odd integer is no longer an integer. If odd and even behave differently, how is infinity to be classified? The answer is that it is classified as BOTH. For any odd or even integer, the median and the mean need not be the same. But at infinity they are defined as being the same, and thus infinity can be defined as both odd and even.

This insight is not unique to advertising and mathematics. St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians, 3:18, according to the King James version is translated as

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

That does not mean that there are no differences. People can have a religion or an ethnicity. People can be free or slave. People can be male or female. But as far as the absolute is concerned, these classifications do not matter and they certainly don’t apply to the absolute. The absolute is both.

Power And Glory

 

Sympathy for The Devil

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

Do you really need that warning about wealth and taste?

The absolute’s Power and Glory is an output of the Truth and Justice of the absolute. It is proper to worship an absolute. But not all of the Power and Glory of an individual is because of their Truth and Justice. An individual can lie, cheat, and steal their way to Power and Glory. Don't forget that one of the titles of the Devil is the Prince Of Lies.

Some basic wisdoms are “All that glitters is not gold” and “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” IOW an individual’s wealth and taste is NOT any indication that their Power and Glory is because they are an absolute.

Not all heroes are famous, and not all famous are heroes. Just because someone has wealth and taste, e.g. is famous, it doesn’t mean that they are a hero. Remember that before you worship, or follow, anyone.

Truth and Justice

 

The Power

Like the crack of the whip, I Snap attack
Front to back, in this thing called rap
Dinging like a cymbal, rhyme devil on the heavenly level
Bang the bass, turn up the treble
Radical mind, day and night all the time
7:14, wise divine
Maniac brainiac, winning the game
I'm the lyrical Jesse James

I’ve got the Power!
I’ve got the Power!

Power is an output, NOT an input.

Power and glory are the outputs. Truth and justice are the inputs. Absolute power is correctly associated with the absolute. So if we have absolute power, then we can be absolute too? Uh no, it doesn’t work that way.

If there is no truth and justice, then there is no power and glory. Lord Acton’s adage is that “Power tends to corrupt,  and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.  I don’t think that there is a similar saying that truth tends to corrupt, and absolute truth corrupts absolutely. So the goal should be to create truth and justice, and then hope to get power and glory. Don’t ever accept power and glory without truth and justice.

The Long Term

 

A Hazy Shade of Winter

Time, time, time,
See what's become of me
While I looked around
for my possibilities
I was so hard to please
Don't look around
The leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter 

What seems like a good decision at the time, might not be so good in the long term.

The list of movies that did NOT get an Academy Award at the time of their release is most impressive.  https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/03/07/best-movies-that-never-won-an-oscar/72836637007/.  But in the long run they have become some of the most important and beloved of films. So it often goes. 

What seems like a good decision in the short term, is not always such a good decision in the long term.  Remember that on election day.  You are not just voting for the short term.  You are voting for the long term.  There are no do-overs or mulligans.  The old saying is  "Marry in haste, and repent at leisure".

Pi

Can't Help Myself

Sugar pie, honey bunch
You know that I love you
I can't help myself
I love you and nobody else.

But what about Sugar Pi?

I love pie, but I love Pi, π,  even more. A wave has a repeating form that can be described by its amplitude, its wavelength, and its phase and that typically involves Pi.

Sinusoidal wave functions, such as the sine and cosine, have several distinct characteristics: 

• They are periodic functions with a period of 2 π.
•  The domain of each function is (-∞, ∞) and the range is [-1,1]
•  The graph of y=sin(x)=sin(-x) is symmetric about the origin because it is an odd function.
• The graph of y=cos(x)=-cos(-x) is symmetric about the y-axis because it is an even function.
• A cosine is a sine that has been phase shifted by π/2, one quarter of its period.

It is thus not surprising that hyperbolic sinusoidal wave functions, such as the hyperbolic sine, sinh, and the hyperbolic cosine, cosh, have similar characteristics.

• They are periodic functions with a period of 2 π i.
•  The domain of the hyperbolic sine, sinh, is (-∞, ∞) and the range is [-1,1] and while the domain of the hyperbolic cosine, cosh, is also (-∞, ∞) its range is [1, ∞].
• The graph of y=cosh(x)=cosh(-x) is symmetric about the origin because it is an odd function.
• The graph of y=sinh(x)=-sinh(-x) is symmetric about the y-axis because it is an even function.
• A hyperboic cosine is a hyperbolic sine that has been phase shifted by π/2 i, one quarter of its period.

A hyperbola is a function that does not change signs because of the sign of its input. A negative or a  positive input always yields a positive output OR a negative or a positive input always yields a negative output. An ellipse can change signs. A negative input can yield a negative or a positive output AND a positive input can yield a negative or a positive output. A hyperbola can change signs, if it is rotated by π radians. (which is equivalent to a rotation of π/2 radians AND a reflection). Euler's Formula is true in an elliptical domain in all cases and in a hyperbolic domain if the phase is less than π/2. It is not true for a hyperbolic domain with a phase greater than π/2. For example, for a complex number that is x+0i, if the phase, rotation of the imaginary axis is π, then Euler’s formula is e^ix which should be positive but is negative, cos(π) + sin(π)*i= -1. It should be restated in a hyperbolic domain as e^ix=cosh(x)‑sinh(x)i and then with a rotation of π when traversing domains, it would be e^ix=1 in both domains.

It is proposed that the entire universe consists of a two sheeted hyperboloid, while in one sheet it is true that e^ix=cos(x)+sin(x)i due to the elliptical identity cos²+sin²=1 while in the other sheet the hyperbolic identity cosh²- sinh²=1 applies. The observable universe is one sheet of this hyperboloid, the sheet in which the hyperbolic identity applies. The two sheets of the hyperboloid connect at the origin. Thus a 2-D Minkowski space becomes a 3-D two-sheeted hyperboloid when an imaginary axis is added to the two axes of space and time, and a hyperbolic surface is rotated by 2π on this imaginary axis. Then the two cones, one of which is inverted, become two connecting sheets of a two sheeted hyperboloid. A hyperbolic surface which passes through the imaginary axis at π and the origin would satisfy e^ix=cos(x)+sin(x)i in one sheet and e^ix=cosh(x)-sinh(x)i in the other sheet. For any equation to be valid in both sheets, that equation would require a rotation by π when it passes between the two sheets at the origin. And that rotation is important and why I love Pi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(−∞,∞)

·        The graph of y=cosh(x

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·        The graph of y=sinh (x

·        A hyperbolic cosine is a hyperbolic sine that has been phase shifted by πi/2, one quarter of its period.

 

A hyperbola is a function that does not change signs. A negative or positive input always yields a positive outputs OR a negative or positive input  always yields a negative output. An ellipse  can change signs. A negative input can yield negative or positive output and a positive input can yields a negative or positive output. A hyperbola can change signs, if it is rotated by π radians. (which is equivalent to a rotation of π/2 radians AND a reflection). Eulers’s formula is true in an elliptical domain in all cases and in a hyperbolic dominance if the phase is less than π/2. It is not true for a hyperbolic domain with a phase greater than π/2. For example, for a complex number that is x+0i, if the phase, rotation of the imaginary axis is π, then Euler’s formula is e^ix which should be positive but is cos(π) + sin(π)*i= -1. It should be restated in a hyperbolic domain as e^xit=cosh(x)‑sinh(x)i=and with a rotation of π it would be e^ix=1 in either domain.

 

It is proposed that the unobservable universe consists of a tow sheeted hyperboloid, when in one sheet it is true that e^ix=cos(x)+sin(x)i due to the elliptical identity cos²+sin²=1 while in the other sheet the hyperbolic identity cosh²-sinh²=1 applies. Th observable universe is one sheet of this hyperboloid,  the sheet where the hyperbolic identity applies. The two sheets of the hyperboloid connect at the origin. Thus a 2-D Minkowski space become a 3-D hyperboloid when an imaginary axis is added to the two axis of space and time, and  hyperbolic surface is rotated by 2π on this imaginary axis, and the two cones, one of which is inverted, becomes two connecting sheets of a two sheeted hyperboloid. Then  a hyperbolic surface which passes through the imaginary axis at π, and the origin would satisfy e^ix=cos(x)+sin(x)i in one sheet and e^ix=cosh(x)-sinh(x)i in the other sheet. For any equation to be valid in both sheets, that equation would require a rotation by π when it passes between the two sheets at the origin. And that rotation is important and why I love Pi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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