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CREATIVE UNITY

By RABINDRANATH TAGORE

It costs me nothing to feel that I am; it is no burden to me. And yet if the mental, physical, chemical, and other innumerable facts concerning all branches of knowledge which have united in myself could be broken up, they would prove endless. It is some untold mystery of unity in me, that has the simplicity of the infinite and reduces the immense mass of multitude to a single point.

This One in me knows the universe of the many. But, in whatever it knows, it knows the One in different aspects. It knows this room only because this room is One to it, in spite of the seeming contradiction of the endless facts contained in the single fact of the room. Its knowledge of a tree is the knowledge of a unity, which appears in the aspect of a tree.

This One in me is creative. Its creations are a pastime, through which it gives expression[vi] to an ideal of unity in its endless show of variety. Such are its pictures, poems, music, in which it finds joy only because they reveal the perfect forms of an inherent unity.

This One in me not only seeks unity in knowledge for its understanding and creates images of unity for its delight; it also seeks union in love for its fulfilment. It seeks itself in others. This is a fact, which would be absurd had there been no great medium of truth to give it reality. In love we find a joy which is ultimate because it is the ultimate truth. Therefore it is said in the Upanishads that the advaitam isanantam,—"the One is Infinite"; that the advaitam is anandam,—"the One is Love."

To give perfect expression to the One, the Infinite, through the harmony of the many; to the One, the Love, through the sacrifice of self, is the object alike of our individual life and our society.

Gutenberg

Rabindra Sangit

Edna Cantoral in Guadalajara

Casa de mi Padre

IMDb

This is a hybrid. Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, are neither Mexican nos American by now. Will Ferrell is in his way to become an honorary Mexican-American.

There is a new country man!

La Republica del Norte.

From a Dear Friend

Constructor Theory

 Consider an automated factory for producing goods to a particular specification. Though its purpose may only be to produce those goods, the laws of physics imply that it must transform something into them and, typically, also use other resources and produce waste products. Very few such transformations happen spontaneously; that is to say, almost all require a constructor, which I shall define as anything that can cause transformations in physical systems without undergoing any net change in its ability to do so. I shall call those physical systems the constructor’s substrates:       
                       
                                constructor
input state of substrate(s)  output state of substrate(s) . (1)

A transformation, regarded as being caused by a constructor, I call a construction.

Prevailing conception:

"everything physical is composed of elementary constituents such as particles, fields and spacetime; there is an initial state of those constituents; and laws of motion determine how the state evolves continuously thereafter."

Construction conception:

" a construction (1) is characterized only by its inputs and outputs, and involves subsystems (the constructor and the substrate), playing different roles, and most constructors are themselves composite objects."

arXiv

Nexus 7

Adrian Bejan and David Deutsch

These two scientists are dealing with construction.

Bejan discovered the The Constructal Theory, and Deutsch The Constructor Theory.

The way I understand Bejan, he asserts:  "matter flows, such that next time flow is easier."

Among other things Deutsch says that: "The most important kind of abstract constructor is knowledge. For knowledge is information which, once it is physically instantiated in a suitable environment, tends to cause itself to remain so: it survives criticism, testing, random noise, and error correction."

I see a similar code for the meaning of time. Persistence is the essence of time.

[1210.7439] Constructor Theory

[1210.7439] Constructor Theory:

 "Constructor theory is the theory of which physical transformations can be caused to happen and which cannot, and why. Several converging motivations for expecting it to be a fundamental branch of physics are discussed. Some principles of the theory are proposed and its potential for solving various problems and achieving various unifications is explored."

"Constructor theory is the ultimate generalisation of the idea of catalysis."

'via Blog this'

Dear Father

I have been thinking of you all day. Today you would've been 94. That was not going to be, you left at the tender age of 62. I am older than that now. I have my own son, he is 20. Khalil Gibran said many years ago:

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." 
And he said: 
Your children are not your children. 
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. 
They come through you but not from you, 
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. 
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. 
For they have their own thoughts. 
You may house their bodies but not their souls, 
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. 
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. 
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. 
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. 
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. 
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; 
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

allpoetry.com

I hope your desire to go to Alaska, when Mexico was not providing you with a decent job, is worth following. Now I am in Illinois.

Thanks.

11/19/1918

My father was born 94 years ago tomorrow.

He died on 12/7/1980 just after turning 62.

My love for my father is great.

Climax?

The Sun is in midlife. Intelligent life seems so special, that maybe we are in the climax now. Israel is ready to attack Gaza, I expect more than one hundred dead. For the first time in its history, Israel will have a defeat, just like the US failed recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Arabs know how to do this, just sit tight as Israli soldiers get tired, and Israel will be evicted. There is not much love for Israel in the Middle East, and Peaches Petraeus is more interested in scoring with well proportioned Middle Eastern women, than fighting a war.

I would've liked if the Republican Party in the US and the Likud Party in Israel would've seen this coming.

I am afraid we are in some kind of climax.

:(

[1211.2479] The Dirac Quantum Automaton: a preview

[1211.2479] The Dirac Quantum Automaton: a preview:

"Quantum Information and the new informational paradigm are entering the domain of quantum field theory and gravity, suggesting the quantum automata framework. The quantum automaton is the minimal-assumption extension to the Planck and ultrarelativistic scales of quantum field theory. It can describe localized states and measurements, which are unmanageable by quantum field theory. The automaton theory is a very promising framework for quantum gravity, since it is quantum ab-initio, with relativistic covariance as emergent and not assumed a priori, it is free from all the problems arising from the continuum, it doesn't suffer violations of causality, and has no divergences. It is the natural scenario to accommodate the quantum holographic principle. Lorentz covariance and all other symmetries are violated in the ultrarelativistic Planckian regime, but are perfectly recovered at the Fermi-scale.
In the present report, after briefly reviewing the fundamental principles at the basis of the quantum cellular automata extension of quantum field theory, I will present a preview of recent results on the Fermi scale limit [1] and on the Dirac automaton in two space-dimensions [2]. The automaton in three dimensions is under way."

'via Blog this'

Robert Brout

Robert Brout 

I am reading Englert's speech, at the Award Ceremony of the 1997 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society in Jerusalem. Now I understand a few things more about Robert Brout. First, the broad knowledge of Brout in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, and condensed matter physics. Second why my professor Jean Pestieau went to Cornell for a postdoctoral position; and finally, why professor Brout accepted Jean's invitation to go to Mexico, where I met him.

What a pair of influential and honest guys. I just wish that Steven Weinberg would've been more fair in recognizing Brout's contribution.

On the conspiracy fringe - sometimes I like to be there - maybe Brout's rejection to stay at Cornell had a part to play, in Weinberg's misappropriation of Brout's work to Higgs.

Just saying.

United Family

Some of us are traveling, others on the ground, thinking, doing, and everything to keep the family going.

Together we can last longer, maybe forever ...

For Maya, Climate Change May Have Been Blessing and Curse - NYTimes.com

For Maya, Climate Change May Have Been Blessing and Curse - NYTimes.com:

"The ancient Maya civilization may have risen — and then fallen — in response to climate change, scientists report after creating precise climate records going back 2,000 years."

'via Blog this'

Trust

I do not believe that Mitt Romney told the American public the extent of his tax avoidance. He claimed tax payments of less than 15%. I believe he paid taxes in amounts of less than 10% of what he owes this country.

He lost the election, so we will never know how much the 1% is getting away with. On the other hand Europeans are killing themselves or selling their organ parts. Is Romney willing to sell one kidney to pay the mortgage?

This all seems apocalyptic. I do believe the world as we know it, is coming to an end. There are going to be losers, and winners.

As good measure I do not trust scientific papers coming from Serbia!

Bricio Cuahutenango in Atlixtac

Taken From Aprendiendo Algo de Ciencia

End of the World

Since I was a teenager, I felt these to be special times. My buddies and I used to talk about going to a commune somewhere in Baja California, to start a new era.

I told myself, that unless and until, I understood how I got here, I was not going to know when the world was going to end. Barring a big meteorite obliterating human civilization, I expect hard times, because of uncountable problems our species has to solve before we can go  through the bottleneck I see coming.

On December 21, 2012, the World is not Ending, I know that much, but the general apprehension I feel around me, tells me that the World As We Know It, is coming to an end. There are going to  be losers and winners.

Latinos are going to be winners, white elites around Mitt Romney, are going to be losers.

Barack Hussein Obama

My whole family is happy. I am happy to be with them, this president will make our life better.

They all voted for Obama, I am not a citizen yet. Next time.

Obama won because the world is growing more and more diverse. He comes from a white family, through, and through. His father was from Africa, but chose not to be present as his son grew up. His mother, though, was there until she died. His white grandparents took it from there. What a story!

Romney lost because his worldview is narrow. He is for business, and his Mormon Church. I am not against business, but a Nation is not a business.

Now I have an opportunity to get ahead with my life in the next four years.

Amen!