We

 

We Are The World

When you're down and out
And there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well
Let's realize, oh, that a change can only come
When we stand together as one

WE are, Not I AM,  the world.

My favorite joke is “Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and it's all organized by the Italians.” Heaven on Earth is the same as Heaven in the Afterlife.  But Hell on Earth is when any one nationality or individual, thinks, that they can do every job.  For example, Hell on Earth is where the chefs are British, the mechanics are British, the lovers British, the police British and it's all organized by the British.” Not to pick on the British but I am after all Irish on my father’s side.

We are, NOT I am,  the world, is the moral of the fable “Stone Soup”.  That is the theme of the song “People”.  Ben Franklin said of the Colonies during the American Revolution that “We will all hang together, or We will all assuredly will hang separately.” In the words of Dr Martin Luther King “With this faith we will be able to speed up that day when all God’s children: black men and white men; Jews and Gentiles; Protestant and Catholics will be able to join hands and in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.” That is also the lesson of Galatians 3:28 in the New Testament of the Bible.  So being Christian is not being anti‑immigrant, anti-trans, anti-homosexual, anti-feminist, anti-abortion or anyone that you characterize as “woke”.  You should be PRO-something, not ANTI-anything.  We need each and everyone of us.

Absolutely

 

My Blue Heaven

You find a cozy place, fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest that nestles where the roses bloom
Just Mollie and me
And the baby makes three
We're happy in my blue heaven

My Blue Heaven is where THREE lives!

In the list of prime numbers, the first prime number is 1, the second prime number is 2, and the third prime number is 3. If there is only one absolute, could two and three also be special numbers? If there is only one absolute, and an individual sees things in 1-D, that is said to be seeing things in only Black and White: 0 or 1.  Seeing things in 2-D, seeing shades of grey, is an improvement and there are many shades of grey between 1-White and 0-Black. But seeing things in 3-D, color, colorizing Black and White, is not just adding one to the shades of grey. For example, if there are 256 shades of grey, there are not 256+(0+1) or 257 colors. It does not multiply the shades of grey, for example there are not 256*2 or 704 colors. It is SQUARING the shades of grey, for example there are 256² or 65,536 colors possible.

If there is one absolute, space is hyperbolic, and the absolute is at the center of a two-sheeted hyperboloid, then this is consistent with a Minkowski transformation of the three dimensions of space (width, length, and height) into one combined dimension of "space". If the fourth dimension, time, is a differential equation of "space", per Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity,  but the “space” between dimensions is hyperbolic, then if the coefficient of the fifth dimension is held constant, then it would appear to an observer within a two-sheeted hyperboloid that there are only four dimensions. But it would appear to an observer from only one sheet of that two-sheeted hyperboloid that there are only three dimensions, even when viewing the absolute which defines the hyperboloid. The absolute defines both sheets of the hyperboloid and can, and does, exist in either sheet of the hyperboloid, so it is 3‑D. But to an observer in only one sheet of the hyperboloid even that absolute would appear to be 2-D.

In the game of "Prisoner’s Dilemma", also known as "Tit for Tat", there is a winning strategy for every number of players, if that number of players is greater than THREE. In most games there are at least THREE players: two teams or players AND umpires and/or rules. Any contest can result in wins and losses, stable outcomes, but that contest can also result in ties, a metastable outcome and there can be tie breakers. Engineers know that THREE is a special number. All electrical components can be defined as combinations of THREE elements: resistors, capacitors, and inductors.  All mechanical systems can be defined as THREE elements: sliding motion, a change in position; dashpots, the first derivative of a change in position; and springs, the second derivative of a change in position. A common symbol in engineering is the triskelion with THREE legs. A structure with at least THREE elements, a triangle, is stable. With only two visible outcomes, a solution can only be metastable. The main cable in a suspension bridge appears to follow a parabolic shape in flat space, but it is really a hyperbolic shape. While most chemistry is concerned with the number of protons (the atomic number) and the number of free electrons (the valence), but quantum and nuclear chemistry, and physics, is concerned with THREE particles: protons, electrons, AND neutrons. A proton and neutron is made of up THREE quarks. Excepting gravity, there are THREE fundamental forces: electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear.  Economics is concerned THREE things: buyers, sellers AND the goods that they are exchanging. 

In 2-D, individuals may perceive only 5/6 of an Absolute but individuals can act in concert as if they were almost an absolute. (Waves in the crowd at sporting events, anyone?). If the 2-D action is also considered to be winning and true then the Absolute solution is {1,0,0,0} where the value, certainty, of the whole matrix is 1, the value of the columns is true and false, and the value of the rows is wins or losses. But while there is no such thing as a half truth, there is only true and false; there ARE ties in a contest. The result of a contest is a win, a loss AND/OR a TIE: THREE outcomes. Individuals can emulate the Absolute by being winning and true {2/3, 1/6, 0, 1/6} but this is Absolutely True. But Absolutely False is also a solution that is winning {0, 2/3, 1/6, 1/6}, but it is Absolutely False because it almost {0,1,0,0}. But Absolutely True has another characteristic.  The Absolute is in the identity diagonal of the table in Absolutely True while in Absolutely False it is not. That is why the Absolute can have an Absolute Zero AND a repeating zero, while Absolutely False can have one OR the other, but not both. If the space between outcomes is hyperbolic, then Absolutely True repeats if it is rotated clockwise, repeating the sequence i, -1, -i and 1 infinitely, while Absolutely False can not. This is because the absolute is NOT on the identity diagonal and that a clockwise rotation of π/2, is equal to a counter clockwise rotation of 3*π/4, the sequence -i, 1, i and UNDEFINED  can NOT repeat infinitely. A group of individuals acting as, perceiving as, the Absolute to be true  will be .96 ± .02. A group of individuals can also approach the Absolute as -1*(.96 ±.02).

You can not simply add the two of them together and get an Absolute, 0 ± 0. Things just do not work that way. These are matrices AND matrix multiplication is NOT commutative while scalar multiplication IS commutative. Treating the range of the absolute as finite does not make it finite, The observer just finds it useful to treat the range as infinite.  Two wrongs don’t make a right, etc. Below 92% of individuals acting as an absolute are false, but normal. To be true and normal while winning it has  also to be above{.5, .25, 0, .25}.  Above 96% individuals acting as an absolute are 1.0, certain, and  winning but ABnormal. Thus between 1.0, 100%, and .96 or 96%, are ABnormal, but the opposite of True. The opposite of true to the absolute is undefined, NOT false. Acting as if to the absolute, the opposite is FALSE, just as NOT Guilty is NOT the same as innocent, is why there are problems.

Some 2-D solutions are identical to Absolutely True, but most are not. No solutions with only 1-D have a solution. While no solution is black, SOME grays are also a solution, but ALL colors are solutions. Heaven, where the Absolute dwells is thus always in color. 3-D. Heaven is also some 2‑Ds that are also Absolutely True. Undefined is always 1-D. So if you want to go to My Blue Heaven, see things in THREEs even if you are in 2-D.

Marathons

 

Go the Distance

I'll be there someday, I can go the distance
I will find my way, if I can be strong
I know every mile will be worth my while
When I go the distance, I'll be right where I belong

Life is a marathon NOT a sprint.

We celebrate as the fastest man in the world, the winner of the 100 meter dash, the sprint.  But we celebrate EVERYONE who completes a marathon.  It is the Tortoise and the Hare.  The Hare is faster than the Tortoise, but in the fable it is the Tortoise that beats the Hare in the race  and is celebrated. We inherently know this.  I have posted this link before but it is worth posting again.

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

We celebrate the winner of the sprint as the fastest human alive, but we celebrate EVERYONE who completes a marathon as a victor because they have gone the distance.  The winner of the sprint is  among others might who have been an Olympic Medalist,

https://youtube.com/shorts/ODT2tZoVGwo?si=tW2LnTeEO2ch4jpC

but every runner who competed the race, even the one in last place, went the distance, played out the clock, did not bend the knee, IS a winner.

Impossible?

 

Impossible

But the world is full of zanies and fools
Who don’t believe in sensible rules
And won’t believe what sensible people say,
And because these daft and dewy- eyed dope
Keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible things are happening every day!

Think Winning, Normal, and True… be a dewy-eyed dope and think improbable, not impossible.

In the movie Dumb and Dumber the Jim Carey character asks if a guy like him stands a chance with a girl like Lauren Holly, the female lead actress. Wanting to let him down easily the Laruen Holly character said that the chances of a girl like her being with a guy like him were one in a million. To which Jim Carey’s character brightened and said ”So you’re telling me that there is a chance, YEAH”  When we say impossible often we only mean merely improbable. Impossible things,  undefined, would violate a law of physics. Improbable means that it does not violate any known laws, only that it hasn’t been done yet. Often knowing that something is possible, even as a visual special effect, is enough to change it from improbable and make it possible.

Case in point is the sliding doors in Star Trek TOS. The sliding doors were a futuristic effect created by an off-screen stagehand moving the door as an actor approached. What was impossible at the time is now a standard at virtually every convenience store when engineers saw that it was improbable, not impossible, and produced ways to do it in real life not as a special effect.

Can man get to the moon or fly? Improbable, NOT impossible.

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  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 be winning, normal and TRUE but the maximum, left-handed skew,
{2/(4.32), 1/(4.32), 0, 1/(4.32)} will be 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 require 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.