Longest Thread Ever

[babe]

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? ~ Hawking

I'm calling for this one. . . . .

Because of the non-zero, meaning non-trivial, results of the wave equations. . . . . .

solutions with zero value are in the mathematical language "forbidden" and corresponding "don't exist".

matrices are often used in this kind of mathemathics/ / / /

 

[PearlWatson]

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
— Joseph Campbell

Damnit!

 

[PearlWatson]

 

[babe]

“The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness." ~Einstein

aha. . . . I always thought there had to be a better solution to the equations. . . .

 

[PearlWatson]

 

[babe]

rep-worthy.

 

[PearlWatson]

To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power. ~ George MacDonald

 

[babe]

well, there's another aspect to this.

I'd say the best teachers do show you something in the picture that perhaps, unaided, you wouldn't have seen. . . . . .

Correspondingly, the best students are those who go on from seeing what is being shown by the artist, and see other things as well. . . . see more, understand more. . . .

 

[babe]

To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power. ~ George MacDonald

well, this has a certain truth all right, but it's not the kind of power the Obamas of the world want. it's the kind of power the Gandhis achieve.

 

[PearlWatson]

"Affluenza"= an attempt to fill a spiritual vacuum through material means.

 

[babe]

To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power. ~ George MacDonald

This refers to the kind of power over self, over our natures perhaps. . . . . that can sustain a person on a diet. . . .or a budget. . . . or a person who is ostracized or bullied. . . . .

 

[PearlWatson]

well, there's another aspect to this.

I'd say the best teachers do show you something in the picture that perhaps, unaided, you wouldn't have seen. . . . . .

Correspondingly, the best students are those who go on from seeing what is being shown by the artist, and see other things as well. . . . see more, understand more. . . .

rep worthy