Well well well....

...seems that the lass and her family have been released, which means that either it was Palestinians....or Shin Beth got cold feet when the heat came on....either way good news.

I used to love this show.....

Now I may be wrong but...

...3+3 usually equals 6 and I'm talking hexagrams not vauxhall crosses. It seems very peculiar to me that just at a time that Israel needs to gain support in Europe and in particular the UK, that this lass and her parents go missing in Gaza. The paramilitaries on the ground have all rallied against the kidnapping, and this from the very people who have their ear against the ground and should know who has carried it out. It doesn't take a genius to know if they are not released or come to harm who will benefit, like I said 3 +3 = 6. I would wager that it has more to do with the 'House of Spirit' than any Palestinian group, but hey what do I know...

...while I'm on the subject of six pointed stars, wouldn't you know that at the same time a petition is being carried out against the leader of the most vehement supporting party of the Palestinian cause, coincedence or machinations, who can tell, but its certainly an attempt to 'Hex' the party. Wouldn't you know the powers behind the publication, well you work it out.....

If I said 'Arthur James Balfour', in a large entrance-hall, well...that's a damn sight less than six degrees of separation. I guess their side got the money and good looks, while ours got the brains....lol.

(P.S. no sooner had I posted this picture of Ramm (which I of course downloaded knowing the little rat would get it pulled from the site!!!), and emailed their petition, than his picture went 'puff' and vanished. Needless to say the picture of Ms Rothschild remained, seems the little weasel didn't get hers down as quick as his own!!!!! Feel safe behind her skirt tails weasel????)

Geometry and the Philosophy of Mathematics.

I blogged this some time ago, but wish to again, rather than as a record of history, as a thought provoker. It was some time ago that I first pondered the nature of the system which underlies our whole scientific endeavour, that of course being the language of mathematics. I am speaking as it were of the philosophy and underlying principles, rather than the semiotics, i.e. Arabic or Indian numeral systems. There is of course the contention that for Homo sapiens Base 10 is ‘natural’ given we have 10 digits on our hands. This then gives us a real reason for base 10, but are we really to presume that maths exists solely because of our hands, or is it more likely that there exists a philosophy/science that exists in the very fabric of the universe. Our digits as it were simply allowed us a ‘key’ to access a comprehendible aspect, which in turn lead us to a greater understanding of the language itself. It could of course be argued that the first concept of math we experienced was Base 2, while in the womb; asleep and awake, noise and quiet, light and dark, and on our subsequent birth, day and night, warm and cold. The list is exhaustive, but it would seem that our early experience indoctrinates us to a binary concept. Let us then consider binary

0 1

Within this system lies the whole mathematical system, it appears everywhere in science, thought, action, philosophy, mysticism. Zero has a close companion that being ∞ as when a number is divided by either the result is the same as the dividing factor. In the wanderings of the minds of men, and probably in any creature that has a conscious mind, it is the pondering of the infinite/nothing principle that leads man to define, and the concept of one is, not to state the obvious, the first conception, the first ‘defined’. In the same way that night leads into day, the indefinable where are sight is limited, night, leads into day, where we think we see more clearly, and things are more clearly defined. In pondering the movement of night into day, we may consider 0 → 1 , and thus with the drawing in of night its counterpoint, 1 → 0. With this ‘movement’ we are presented with a linear positive progression, but also crucially a movement in the negative, -1, through the same field.

-1 0 1

Thus in pondering the procession of night into day and again its recession we are presented with what would appear as the archetypal dialectic, where 0 is pondered as undefined, then gaining definition with 1, but then producing -1 as it were through a reflection in 0. From thinking upon night and day as 0 and 1, we achieve day and night as -1 0 1. From this movement we receive a further movement and thus concept of 2, as from -1 to 1 is the ‘distance’ which covers that interval, thus, by extension, we achieve the base 2 progression.

-16 -8 -4 -2 -1 0 1 2 4 8 16

Although most commonly binary calculation occur in the positive field its very concept and progression can be seen to have its roots in the above dialectic progression. Although 0 and 1 maybe be seen as the prototypical dialectic the progression -1 0 1, seems to encapsulate dialectical thought more completely as it possesses thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Hidden within this system are the numbers present in the common decimal (base 10) system, both by movement between the numbers present but also when the binary system is considered, i.e. between 2 and -1 is a progression of 3 increments, and 11 in binary is 3 by the decimal. Thus the numbers seen to be missing from the base 2 progression outlined above are present as abstracts if not delineated in symbol. As is often shown in nature the geometric progression above is prevalent. This progession is as it were through one plane, one dimension, what if we extend it to two dimension, or at least two of the possibilities.

16
8
4
2
1
-16 -8 -4 -2 -1 0 1 2 4 8 16
-1
-2
-4
-8
-16

Here the progression takes place in two dimensions, through four vectors. There are however immediate implications when one considers the inherent geometric progression where 1 becomes two becomes 4 etc.. If we consider the decimal system and its progression interesting patterns emerge. This and further manipulations is best represented by the following numerical/geometric diagram

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

This ‘number square’ represents one possibility. If the numbers where multiplied, squared, cubed, in fact any variation, then the fractal/vortex created would subsequently be different in actuality but common in form. Of course this is through four vectors, but potentially there could be as many vectors as could be imagined. The basic vortex concept is shown in simplistic form below.

This then is imagined as the ‘mechanics’ or philosophy that lies behind mathematics or geometry, and that the system known to H. sapiens has nothing to do with systematic addition of one item to another, but is ‘sewn’ into the very fabric of the universe, seen and unseen, our desire to quantify has merely touched upon its surface, most people never progressing beyond 1-10, looking at their fingers, objects visible in the world, and believing that to be the genesis of mathematics and geometry

http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/Complete_graph

There will always be....

...exceptions to the rule. But when it comes to the rule....

That should be plain enough even for you people!!!!

The Da Vinci Code

Just watched the Da Vinci code trailer.Looks pretty cool to me as a movie, tho' Browns of semiotic knowledge in the book ruined it for me. Maybe he should have enrolled at Bologna under Eco prior to writing the book. I did notice a strange combination of letters in the trailer, I'm rubbish at crosswords anagrams, maybe somebody else is better, could be a secret message...

T H S E C D E O

The only thing that I could get from it was 'The Decos' which makes me think of a ten part encryption...but hey maybe I'm looking too deeply...or maybe its because I have 'Applied Cryptology' by Bruce Scheiner on my desk. Under the Rose, weren't there two encryption wheels??? One within another, 5 + 5 = 10, and thus 'The Decos'. That's all I can think of.

Intellectual Capital, Social Capital, and thus...

Capital. I have been following the news recently and it seems that the Government is reconsidering its position on Nuclear Power. This will never happen, by the time the stations are ready to be built, they will be water based molecular stations, green, safe and certainly renewable. Along side this is the fact that Britain has always lacked the ability to profit on good ideas, well not this time. This really is 'eyes only' stuff, and what may be considered a PPP, would certainly allow HM Treasury to ease taxes if they were making major profits from national, and maybe international power provision. I guess that it may actually be a good idea to make sure there are lots of cables across the north sea and the channel, so when our new stations come on line we can sell the excess, which of course would be verging on infinite, to fellow EU states at market price.

And when it's a egalitarian world with everybody sharing what they own or have invented, let me know, till then Foxtrot Oscar.