"Wait a minute, 24-5 is 19....."
( That is really funny if you are long time Rush listener :-) )
Posted on 05/09/2011 3:21:35 PM PDT by decimon
John Baez expounds on what makes the numbers 5, 8 and 24 so special
In the May 2011 issue of Scientific American mathematician John Baez co-authors "The Strangest Numbers in String Theory," an article about the octonions, an eight-dimensional number system that was discovered in the mid–19th century but that has been largely ignored until quite recently. As the name of the article implies, interest in the octonions has been rekindled by their surprising relationship to recent developments in theoretical physics, including supersymmetry, string theory and M-theory. Baez and his co-author John Huerta wrote, "If string theory is right, the octonions are not a useless curiosity; on the contrary, they provide the deep reason why the universe must have 10 dimensions: in 10 dimensions, matter and force particles are embodied in the same type of numbers—the octonions."
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
I love onions, but I’ve never tried an oct onion. Are they sweet?
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don’t.
Someone had to say it.
Including Life and the Universe.
Now, where shall we have lunch?
Know a good, out-of-the-way restaraunt, by chance?
"Wait a minute, 24-5 is 19....."
( That is really funny if you are long time Rush listener :-) )
Where ever you want just don’t forget your towel. ;-)
bfl
Loved that drum solo ever since I was a kid.
And, always puzzled about the phrase - what the heck was "6 to 4"?
Then after a mere 30 years or so of contemplating it, I realized...
oh.
But One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do...
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Two can be as bad as one, it’s the loneliest number since the number one.
Nnnnn-na-na-na, nnnnn-na-na, Nineteen....
the only other member of the “octonions” keyword:
Magic Remote Influencing (mighty strange)
Very strange web site | 2002 | Tim Rifat
Posted on 05/13/2003 8:23:44 PM PDT by dark_lord
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/911037/posts
Lol.
3:35 or 3:34 ?
Wick rotation, extended past quaternions.
I don't watch TV, but research indicates that it may be so. Be careful out there.
According to songfacts, the songwriter wrote this song from the point of view of another songwriter trying to write a hit. Its about being up late writing lyrics and “waiting on the break of day.”
For the numbers, it means the time it was written was either 3:35 or 3:34 am, which would be either 25 or 26 minutes to 4 am.
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