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The thing about π
Consider the following setup, from the game ‘Factorio’, the game about factory management and automation: There are two factories visible in this image – the two rectangular, green-walled buildings. Take the one on the left: it’s manufacturing electric furnaces, with … Continue reading
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Tagged ∞, asymptotic, Factorio, factory floor, industrial management, infinity, irrational numbers, Neptune-Pluto resonance, orbital resonance, planetary resonance, resource pressure, π
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Where the Indian infiniteness?
I didn’t know Kenneth Wilson had died on June 15 until an obituary appeared in Nature on August 1. He was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and mathematician whose contribution to science was and is great. He gave scientists the tools to … Continue reading
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Tagged asamkhyeya, Avatamsaka Sutra, inclusivity, infinity, Isa Upanishad, Kenneth Wilson, Thomas Cleary
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