Aug 26

What we call fundamental changes with time. Atoms were once thought to be fundamental, elementary building blocks of nature; protons were then thought to be fundamental, then quarks. Now we say the string is fundamental. So there still are fundamental building blocks: they are the different modes of the string.

- David Gross

“Strings” also happen to be the basic building blocks of computer languages.

In a somewhat humorous tone, I think this raises the following possibilities about the nature of the universe:

  1. There is a God. He likes to mess with our heads.
  2. Computer and Physics guys like to name things the same way.
  3. We are living inside a computer program.

Seems only logical.

Blake

Aug 21

I am a terrible cook

Well, technically, I’m not terrible… A more apt description would be not a cook. I just usually get home and want to do other things.

Pretty much the same thing happens to me during lunch.

I’d just rather go eat somewhere. Their food is usually better than mine.

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Aug 19

This is my first blog entry. Look for lots of crazy, innovative, and funny ideas to come up on this blog. Some of them will be good, some of them will already exist, some of them will boggle your mind because they are so dumb. All in all, the site should either drive you crazy, or get you thinking. Hopefully the latter.

Enjoy,

Blake