Pilachi_Sketch [ BLOG ]

Earlier today, I began to hint at a major breakthrough that happened last night while documenting the significance of spiderman… in understanding the logic of the deterministic chaos models I have been working on (for the past three years this month). You see, there are a bunch of guys who focus on string theory… which until today, I knew very little about… other than hearing about it over a hamburger one Wednesday night, a few weeks ago.

Now, I think I have stumbled on a more appropriate way to come to terms with the disparities between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of Relativity; some of the things that String theory begins to suggest.

Personally, I love Star Trek and the whole bit, but I do not buy into the whole worm-hole bit.

I recognize from the fractal models, that there are specific points in the model [which roughly translate to moments in space and time... even though technically it is a topological model and the concept of space and time are irrelevant], where major change can potentially occur. I call these moments easter eggs… I will tell you more on that later.

The way that I was able to clearly explain it today, was based on a few analogies: (a) the path of the sun and the moon (b) a juggler (c) and the trusty old web slinger… spiderman
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I have always referred to my instincts as my spider senses. Just about 10 years ago I had a very vivid dream: a dream that repeated itself verbatim at an important point when I needed a reminder, soon thereafter. That dream outlined very significant events as though narrated by a game show host outlining what would happen if I went through door number one or door number two… marked by the critical decision of staying with or breaking up with a girlfriend who, funnily enough, I had already broken up with… the year earlier.

As it turns out we got back together… and the night of consummating our reunion… I had that vivid and almost violent somnambulistic reminder.

So without proper reason or explanation, I broke up with her. I am sure I came across as a real “round-hole” [as opposed to a square peg].

But it was uncanny. Every single thing that was hinted at in that dream, has happened in the past ten years.

One useful example, which was important to me at the time was… I either failed architecture, or I was awarded a first class honors degree in architecture. So when the external examiners told me that my studio professor made the recommendation that I be failed because I was, disruptive, lazy and would otherwise make no significant contributions to the profession… mainly because I disagreed with him… and designed a 30ft cantelever into my final building design proposal.

When the examiners told me that I was being failed… I was not phased… because I knew that I could change the outcome. So I told them to look at the 17 sketchbooks that I compiled in the duration of that semester and indicate from their observations whether I should indeed be failed. I presented a model that I built from instinct, expecting that verdict… and explained the design to them. The chief examiner… a head honcho architect from London who I now forget [John Jones or some equally bland cardboard name] left the exam, went to see the head of the school [Nadine Isaacs] and returned with a new verdict. I had until the end of the summer to resubmit two designs. At the end of that glorious summer in the office of Audrey Knight, my secret project supervisor, [where I slept on the floor for two months with Chip and Deon], I resubmitted and was awarded the first class honors degree [before Ivor Smith... later discovered to be bigot and racist] dropped my grade by 2% points, back to an upper second class honors degree.

That did not matter as much. In that summer, I had an “easter egg,” I had a dream that lead me to look for Euclidean Geometry… and find the postulates that helped me to understand the launching points to transition into hyperbolic and curved space geometry. The basis for everything I am describing today.

Another [and one of the final] easter eggs in that dream was to avoid a ghostly blue building set in a pre-developed European town with open gutters narrow corridors and bromide colored street lights. In that dream, as a result of not following the instinct, I “killed spiderman.”

Last night, after deciding against a lease in probably the best building to open an office in Accra, based on the manner and nature of the landlord’s tone, manner and general attitude towards me, A weight was lifted… and in trying to come to terms with what happened, the idea of spiderman flying through New York, gave me the biggest Eureka that I have had in years.

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The models that I have been generating and runing fluid dynamic simulations on, can be read in many different ways; because the quadratic equasions [developed by Clifford Pickover and Peter De Jong] have what appears to be simultaneous patterns of embedded logic… frozen in the models.

So back to the three ways of describing this. (a) the sun and the moon (b) the juggler (c) spiderman.

Lets start with the Juggler.

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THE JUGGLER

The beauty of watching a juggler perform his/her art… is in the watching of the balls fly through space, creating patterns based on their relative locations and the rhythm created by their synchronization in space based on the timing of the jugglers hands.

If we were to map the path of each ball as it flew through space, giving each frozen moment in time a point (that we can later triangulate to determine its location relative to a fixed point, and can sequence, based on the time frame frozen relative to its rising or falling along its trajectory)… then we created a catalog of those points… 1a 1b 1c… iterations. Once we have done a full “motion capture” of the juggler’s performance, we can retrace and reproduce the trajectory of each ball independently, change the timing, reverse the sequencing and or manipulate it in any way that we choose.This would be an educational simulation that can very easily be done with existing technology.

What this simulation would show is based on the premise of the juggler’s skill. If the juggler is skilled, then the entire performance will take place without interruption or collisions. It is these collisions that are NECESSARY for understanding. So, by adjusting the sequencing of the simulations, we can create theoretical collisions, where the uninterrupted topology created by the motion trail of each ball flying through space and time is graphically overlain on the motion path of each of the other two balls (or even if the timing of the each video sequences or playblast for each ball was changed to simulate collisions) we could begin to understand the nature of “easter eggs” or what Einstein called “worm holes”

So it is not that we break the topology or space or time, we simply adjust our understanding of the sequencing of things, read the intangibles and get a better sense of how the system works.

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THE SUN AND MOON

An easier and more tangible anecdote would be the imagined path of the sun and moon in the sky and the orbit of the earth. This is the simple premise for the predictability embedded in systems.

Every day with certainty, we can say that the sun will be in the sky in a similar position today, relative to where it was yesterday. We can then make predictions on where it will be tomorrow and the next day and next year at this time, based on simple and standard deviations, and assumptions made by marking and cataloging the position of the sun in the sky at 2pm today relative to its position at 2pm tomorrow. Then we can make a catalog again.This is easier to imagine because we all appreciate that the sun has a fairly regular path… and by that I mean… we see the sun moving around us… and imagine ourselves as the fixed point [we all know better... but based on our self involvement, it is easier to say where the sun will be relative to us]. Work with me.

The sun’s path is similar to the juggler’s ball, but it never changes its pattern on the sun diagram… once the full cycle is completed, it begins again… so we can plan equinoxes and all that fun stuff.

Consider the moon cycle as another or the juggler’s balls. If we are able to understand the orbiting of the moon, we get an understanding of its cycles.

I said the sun had a cycle because it gets too complicated to include the earth’s rotational orbit at this time.

If the sun and moon spinning in simplified and overlapped cycles can be seen as the juggler’s balls, then the instance of overlap… that we can predict based on our understanding of their relative cycles… gives rise to significant events. Full moons, solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, no moon etc. These are “easter eggs.”

I do not know with certainty that there will be a lunar eclipse on any given day… but someone does… and invariably they will be right.

I just go along like a trusting sheep and look to the sky at the prescribed time. It is a kind of faith that we overlook.

The stuff that we do not understand, form the basis of another type of faith… that leads us to ask not to be blind sided at midnight on tuesday, when the cycle of your position in space and time collide with my position in space and time.

How many of you wish that there was something that you could go back and change, if you had the ability to choose differently?

I honestly do not believe that we can go back and forth. What I do believe with relative certainty, is that if we are able to understand the cycle of how things work, we can begin to see, understand and appreciate “easter eggs.” We all get them… the chill that runs down your back when someone you cannot see, but who presents a threat to your existence, passes you in a dark alley. We all get easter eggs… a notion that something significant is about to happen… good or bad. And when that good or bad thing happens we say, I should have trusted my instinct and done or not done. Some of us blame fate, deity or significant other.

If you know what to look for, you can understand it. It is a matter of confluence.

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SPIDERMAN

Aside from his uncanny ability to sense the presence of the hob-goblin and thereby avoid the careening pumpkin bomb without ever seeing it, is the absurd version of hyper-sensitive instincts. This we will get to, but this is not the point of spiderman’s significance at this time.

Spiderman flies through the sky over new york performing incredible acrobatic feats, swinging like tarzan from contemporary vines… super-strong spider webs.

Did you ever think about the environmental impact of Spiderman’s abandoned webs? I don’t either. Nor do I look at the juggler’s hands.

And that is why, I did not get it.

The answer lies in the collisons. The Beautiful Collisions [Bic Runga's new album].

Spiderman, though incredibly acrobatic and incredibly adept, avoids the careening bombs because his uncanny instincts are so well honed that he can sling a series of webs, constrained by nearby buildings and avoid the otherwise imminent collison in space and time. This is the very same thing that 60 years ago the father of Cybernetics tried to come to terms with when developing weapon guidance systems in World War Germany. I will do him one better.

Spiderman avoids the collisions by sensing the position of the trajectory and based on its velocity (mapped as points in space over time) he is able to predict with certainty, the position of that threat, at a future position in time. In the same way that the bomb thrower anticipated Spiderman’s position based on his web slung trajectory. This is all active, this is all exciting… and it is only partially relevant.

The thing that NEVER ever happens is… the bad guy never looks at where spidey is throwing his webs. Unlike superman who can fly unrestrained and eat bullets for breakfast, Spiderman CANNOT for argument sake, decide to go careening across the Hudson river. Spiderman needs constraints. The constraints present themselves as the boundaries of nearby buildings and his ability to sling a strong and long enough strand to support his trajectory.

If after all of the fighting was done, we were able to catalog, the millions of abandoned spider webs left strewn across the landscape, we could ultimately recreate Spiderman’s trajectory. So why then, don’t the enemies, stop paying attention to Spidey… and start focusing on his webs?

The answer is simple, when you watch a juggler, do you pay attention to his hands? I did not think so.

The balls collide with a Juggler’s hands in the very same way that the webs collide with the buildings. These collisions are significant moments… that give rise to easter eggs.

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DANCE MUSIC
The other example that I forgot to mention was dance music. You can always instinctively tell if someone knows how to mix music based on the transitions made between two tracks. If you notice the change… the DJ is no good. If however, you do not know when the track changed, the DJ is good, to varying degrees.

The process of mixing music is also called juggling by the way.

A good DJ can go for hours playing one continuous stream of music, by mixing one song after another… seamlessly. This he can do because of a number of things. The music — for purposes of this example — all have the same pitch, tempo and are playing at 120 bpm (beats per minute).

The structure of dance music usually has an introduction, where the instrumentality is introduced in phases, then the primary theme is presented and the vocals begin. Then there is a point when the vocals stop and the instrumentality starts again… then the instruments all cut away leaving the basic critical component of the entire track… THE BREAK. This break is so important it gave rise to Break dancing (bet you did not know that)… where the break from a particular song was continuously looped (recursion is always a good way to begin to understand a system) to allow people to dance in a unique and freestyle manner, uninterrupted by the vocal or instrumental stylings of any particular song. This was often done manually by turntable djs… who then got creative by mixing and scratching. That will be developed later… but for now, lets get back to dance music.

After the break, all of the instruments, and themes are brought back for the high energy climax of the particular song… then the instruments slowly fade away, one by one until the song is done.

A good DJ never mixes while a major theme is in progress instrumental or vocal. Nor do you mix during the climax… that would be like stopping during a sexual climax to reconvene fore-play. It is definitely an no no.

The point… the break is the place where one song should transition to another. If you are building up momentum, you could introduce the themes of many songs, or to be graphic, many sexual positions. Let us keep it clean and simple for the impressionable young minds.

The break is the best place to make a seamless transition from one song to another.

The break is similar to the point where the ball comes back to the juggler’s hands, where spiderman’s webs hit the building, and where the “stars are aligned” and give rise to easter eggs like eclipses. There is credence in much of the old-school pre-Columbian rituals.

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THE POINT OF ALL OF THIS

I dont buy into the worm-hole bit; however we have to use the terms of expression that help us to understand what we are describing. Just as you might say that it is a bit simplistic for me to say that Spiderman holds the answer to understanding how the universe is ordered. I simply use terms that will help me to communicate and understand that which I am in my own way coming to terms with.

It may not be as clearly articulated as I would hope; however it is an exact science.

The point is… if we are able to understand how to make transitions (choices) at appropriate times, we can impact significant changes in space and time. It is that simple.

The descriptions of iterated models and understanding the nature of significant collisions help to inform my developing understanding of fractal models, which operate in similarly deterministic ways as spiderman (traceable by numbering the abandoned webs) or the juggler (by time coding each ball in time) or in environmental mapping… where the Lorenz attractor has already been successful in predicting weather patterns.

My point is this…time and space relative to your current position… are linear constructs used to understand a dynamic and for the most part non-linear system with interwoven “chaotic” rules.

If you can understand the logic of how the system is put together, you will know and ultimately be able to predict with certainty, the opportunities (breaks / easter eggs) that give rise to significant change. Not all moments present equal opportunities for change. Some days will just be sunny, others will just be cold… but we take for granted the fact that we can prepare for each of these days by simply conferring with the contemporary shaman… the weather channel.

It sounds far fetched that we can cycle between tracks of space and time continuum but it is simpler than it sounds.

It is just a matter of knowing when and where a significant change can be made (like spiderman predicting that there is danger looming and if he does not recognize a significant opportunity for tremendous change, there will be a collision)… then trusting our instincts and making the change.

The shift from baboon to whale lies in one strain of dna. The fact that dna has what are referred to as “recombinant strains” that give rise to the ethically ambiguous god-like role play… should at least assuage your disbelief.

It is funny… because at this particular collision of events, I am listening to Faithless [ which is playing on iTunes set to random / shuffle ] singing “God is a DJ… this is my church.”

So I know that this is the easter egg, for me to…

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