Very quietly, the nibbling away at the edges of the “old and familiar” is moving ahead at serious speed this week in the odd intersection between physics, mathematics, and “urge to find truth” as 2014 spins up.
The view is based on a cluster of events in headlines and the appearance of two items in my personal life, one of which comes from the “I Ching” Inbox.
No, you can’t buy an I Ching inbox…they just sort of happen when you’re on the right path of a stupid initiate who seeks truth of all things.
Item #1: In come the disclosures from Ed Snowden’s latest which is about how the NSA is building a quantum computer that’s designed to do a much faster job of breaking encryption keys than present-day technology.
Item #2: Detroit’s Water Department. This is a city agency – paid for by taxpayers – which can actually make money. Talks on its future will be coming next week, but the mathematics tie-in is obvious: Compound interest overwhelms politicians, again, who we’ve always been a little suspect of, when it comes to “running the numbers right.”
Item #3: Next comes the report in the University of Delaware’s UDaily that researchers at the school have developed a new curriculum approach called the “Number Sense Interventions” which, while designed for kids who might not be exposed to math at home. That may be telling us something much more general about society, murmurs the I Ching inbox: Maybe we’re all pretty stupid on math? My buddy Howard is always pointing our numeracy issues, especially with the press, but maybe J-schoolers ended up pounding keys because they couldn’t hack the differential equations to be rocket scientists…
Item #4: A paper on ARXIV.org reports on a search of the internet looking for evidence of time travelers.
Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers. Here, three implementations of Internet searches for time travelers are described, all seeking a prescient mention of information not previously available.
So begins the very interesting paper that you can read over here. Math, quantum mechanics and time travel evidence on the internet…all wrapped up in one paper.
Personal Item #1: Every pair of socks I have put on for the past week has developed a hole in them. Now, if this was just two or three pairs of socks, that’d be one thing. This is the sixth morning in a row, now, and I can’t help but intuit that the Universe is telling me something about runs of events.
The rest of today will be spent deciphering the cosmic meaning of this: Does it mean that I should run into town and buy a lottery ticket? Or, are events telling me I should run into town and buy socks? Vexes me no end.
The I-Ching Inbox Capper: A reader email came in Thursday discussing numerology of all things!
In your column this morning you talked about predictive strategies and mentioned Astrology as the oldest. I believe that you are incorrect. The oldest predictive approach is numerology, however it does go hand-in-hand with Astrology.
I do not know what your full name or birthday are but if I did I could tell you more about your life and Elaine’s than you will ever get out of a web bot.
As an example your last name GEORGE (7+5+6+9+7+5=39, 3+9=12, 1+2=3) URE (3+9+5=17, 1+7=8) (3+8=11) demonstrates that you’re enlightened. If I had you full birthdate i.e. month, day, year I could tell you your life path which is a slightly more powerful vibration than your full name.
All primary numbers (1-9) have a vibration.