Facts and Fiction

All immortals will be struck by lightning


Sorry, there are limits for growth...



Mayby the title sounds like a weird quote from a classic drama, but actually it is a quite normal consequence of the weather. Thunder is not rare in Denmark, and each time thousands of lightnings are let loose. And yet only one person is hit annually. However, if you have infinitely much time at your disposal, every possibility will one day be released. Beware of the rare...




The 4 Elements


Are there more than four?



The idea of 4 elements are usually seen as obsolete metaphysics, that finally collapsed centuries ago. However, this is only partly true. The original theory made physical sense, but created nonsense when applied chemically. Above Fire was supposed to exist a mysterious substance phlogiston, with a negative weight to make equations work. (And you thought modern physics were weird?).

However, the idea of 4 elements still makes sense as the four physical states of matter: solid, fluid, gas, plasma. If understood as principal levels, Elements are still valid today...



Optical illusions


Your eyes adjustable like television



There are many possible optical illusions. Some are just a trick to fool the eye, or a gimmick in the filmindustry. But art has also found them usefull sometimes, fx Escher, Magritte, Dali...
If your eyes were adjustable like television...
However, all illusions I've seen did have one irritating drawback. Each time I was left with the impression that the illusion was an effect of the picture, not the eye. Thats actually an extra illusion by itself. The optical illusion is caused by the optics itself (=eye+brain), no picture is required. In other words, you may create an optical illusion merely by manipulating your own eyes.



Eon


Worlds largest number



EON

Some entities are small, but numerous. Some are incredibly high, but only rarely used. But both ends are necessary, and we need the full spectrum. Is it possible to touch the sky, while keeping your feet firmly grounded? At least one may attempt it, so here's my suggestion...



A chair is a chair?


A thing beyond definition



A chair is an object that everybody knows. We have all seen lots of them. Such an ordinary thing, and yet it is beyond definition: How does a chair look like a chair?

100 words


The essential dictionary



The number of languages on Earth is falling. But the number of words is rising. In order to investigate this evolution, I suggest a linguistic experiment: the minimal dictionary. If you should choose one and only one word, for a dictionary with only 100 words, which one would you choose..?



The Woman who
Turned into an Oak


Absurd story or what do you not



One day Sylvia discovered that a small leaf had sprouted from her left elbow. Next day she found another on her right arm, she suspected a change. And the rest of the week she increasingly found herself in the garden, branching out in silence, panorama!

Doing nothing at all, standing still while admiring the suns speeding arc, yet strangely yearning for rain to fall; I'm leaving, she thought... When her friends asked Sylvia if she didn't find all this difficult, she answered: No, not at all. It's as easy as one, two, tree...



The urban fugue


A parable



The urban fugue

He turned in his dream, his sleep was disturbed and something moving around up his sleeve. He couldn´t recall it all, reminded by the half. He was listening to a friend of his, a philosophical blacksmith, and in the dream such a title seemed quite natural. More...



The end of all the birds


An escatological Pile of feathers



A vulture pierced to pieces by winds of prey
A canarys decline is often feline
A blackbird blacked out at the dead of night
Bats bleeding in the belfry
Swarms of pigeons getting lost in the big city
An ostrich burying its entire body in sand
Sparrows wither in flight in bleak winters light
Read more...



Matrix goes fo(u)rth


Synchronicity indeed



Some weeks ago I dreamt I was watching a film. Not on TV, but in the cinema. Since dreams are a kind of visual fantasies, dreaming of films is almost too convoluted. But perhaps it still made sense, since the film was Matrix. Not the first one, nor was it the second or third. Nope, it was the fourth matrix-film which to my knowledge hasn't been made yet. Don't ask me what the film was about, as I only saw 1-2 minutes. When I woke up...



The parallel world


A traffic accident on the hyperway



Time is change. But all things do not change equally fast. An example: fashion is a perennial production, architecture last centuries. Everything evolves at its own internal speed. Thus time moves on in a myriad of separate but interwoven roads... Sleeping one night in the 90'es, I had a parallel dream: It begins in a future, where teleportation is normal and widely used... I'm about to travel to another place, but this should only take a few seconds since I'm going to 'port' myself. I step into the transmitter-box, my body dissolves. In the shape of pure code my body (and mind) is sent to the corresponding receiver-box. Then an accident happens on the hyperway...



Making order
making sense


A cognitive comment



This dream was long ago, and extremely short. Nevertheless, it certainly had a point to make: I am sitting in a room, watching TV. At least I'm trying to watch, but the screen displays only noise, chaotic dots. It's impossible to see the film I wanted. Impossible to see any thing at all.
Then I suddenly realize...




The sky, the Sun
and the Ocean


The word for world is water



Long ago I had a most unusual wet dream, but not in the usual sense: I lie on a raft or similar, no need to swim, I'm floating somewhere in the middle of an Ocean, no land in sight in any direction: The word for world is water. Only me and the ocean, I look at the sun, I see the sea, skies. I look around and I know, I know....



English is not everything


Here's the other half



Read the danish section...



Litterary links



Library of unwritten books




Infinities


Infinity is just as easy as one, two, three...



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Before Infinity.

Simple sequence of natural objects 1, 2, 3. Also the max number of concepts most people can mentally juggle simultaneously.

Natural examples: 3 generations in a family, trinity, trio, triads, trinary, triangles.

Things need only 3 legs to stand, but animals mostly 4 to move.

Originally we also had no more numbers than 3, the rest was "and so on"...

Space, Time and Energy.

Tese + Antitese

Syntese

...

1

First Infinity.

Sequence of natural numbers: 1, 2, 3 etc. But here 'etcetera' literally means forever, cause there is no such thing as a "highest number". You can always add one more. Always.

Natural numbers can easily be arranged; start with one, keep adding. They are also automatically indexed; 1 is the first, 2 second, 3 third and so on...

In older days we believed in numbers so high we couldn't know them, that there was such a thing as 'The Highest number', reserved for Gods. In math it's not true; no limits to size, always another.

But biologically we have limited senses and sense.

Who can visualize a trillion, or grasp all stars of a galaxy..?

We're beyond our horizon and always out of range.

2

Second Infinity.

Sequence of real numbers are all kinds of numbers, like 7 or 5/100 or 3,14159 or phi.

Real numbers contains any number of digitals, even infinite many.

But there is no obvious way to index them, no simple way to arrange them.

Imagine two numbers 0 and 1.

Half is 1/2, the first number. Half again gives 1/4 and 3/4. And so on...

Repeating this procedure forever will create more and more numbers - yet even if run infinitely most real numbers would remain untouched.

Even between the two most basic numbers, 0 and 1, Second Infinity creates an infinite number of numbers that cannot be indexed along a line.

3

Third Infinity.

Combined sum of all combinations.

Everything combines with everything in any possible way.

No longer a sequence, can't be indexed or arranged. Even hard to create them all, not missing any.

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Further Infinities..?

Concepts of even higher magnitude. Do they exist..?

Which aspects can be lost, to abstract more meaning.

Wider, higher, more general, universal ...

Relativity


Rules absolutely