Exploring the Infinite
Science News The concept of infinity intrigued Escher and he wanted to capture the notion in an image somehow. Then in 1957, he read an article containing a diagram of a hyperbolic plane written by H.S.M. Coxeter, a mathematician at the University of Toronto. This was the inspiration that caused Escher to create the Circle Limit prints which in turn
“I consume, digest and excrete information for a living…As a committed infovore, I need to eat roughly six times my weight in information every day or my brain starts to starve and atrophy.” – Cory Doctorow
http://feeds.feedburner.com/rudyrucker Interviews and talks by author Rudy Rucker, who has a Ph.D. in the theory of infinite sets and is also a well-known science-fiction writer who enjoys painting.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Hybrids_in_the_Universe_999.html Scientists re-think their theories on gamma-ray bursts – the most powerful cosmic explosions. Are stars that produce hybrid bursts inherently different from the kind that make supernovae? “This is brand new territory; we have no theories to guide us,” said Dr. Neil Gehrels of NASA GSFC.
When in the course of organic evolution it becomes obvious that a mutational process is inevitably dissolving the physical and neurological bonds which connect the members of one generation to the past and inevitably directing them to assume among the species of Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a
“There is no question of Mandelbrot’s genius and contribution to the science of fractal geometry. However, it is only fair that credit go where it is due. According to James Gleick's book Chaos (pp. 111-112), Mandelbrot over the years has been accused by colleagues of habitually taking credit for far more than he should. We believe that this time, he
“Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time – and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself –
“We insult her everyday on TVAnd we wonder why she has no guts or confidenceWhen she's young we kill her will to be freeWhile telling her not to be so smartWe put her down for being so dumb” John Lennon – 1972
“… I do indeed believe that there is a certain contrast between, say, people in scientific professions and people working in the arts. Often there is even mutual suspicion and irritation, and in some cases one group greatly undervalues the other. Fortunately there in no one who actually has only feeling or only thinking properties. They intermingle like the colours