Paul Ford's essay on how our stuff grows more stuff really resonates with how it feels to buy pretty much anything lately.
>I asked a friend what kind of case she planned to buy for her shiny new flip phone. She paused, a little offended. “I don't like to buy stuff for my stuff,” she said. Those words drilled directly into my hippocampus, never to depart.
[...]
>The problem is that certain kinds of stuff simply attract more stuff. The home is an obvious one: It craves sofas, sweaters, buffet cabinets, chandeliers. Computers are another; they grow USB tendrils. Smartphones beget earbuds, cloud backups, and music service subscriptions.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-grand-unified-theory-of-buying-stuff/
What is the justification for choosing the ten-dimensional representation of SU(5)?
Is there any reason other than simply filling the first generation fermions?
"Tell me more about this perpetual motion machine." Asked Nurse Rached
"It's not a perpetual motion machine! For the thousandth time, it's an equation, the distribution of angular momentum is equal to the curvature of space-time! all forces are curvatures in space time. Einstein believed that because Gravity was not felt by the body and normal force was, that therefore gravity was a curvature of space-time whereas the normal force was not. But forces are felt when they disagree with one another across the rigid body. The universe is a kinetic fractal geometry, described as a meta-rotation." Said the patient
"Do you believe you're name is Albert Einstein?" Asked nurse Rached
"No, it's Andrew, never mind!" said the patient named Andrew
"How would you feel if we upped your dose?" Asked Nurse Rached
"No medications! I am not crazy! Listen when you look at a single atom under an electron microscope, it's of negative spatial dimension, only if you were to measure it with some kind of measuring device, it would appear positive, because regardless of whether the dimension is positive or negative we observe it, measure it based on a scalar quantity, the dimension is important when describing it's affect on other mass, when it has some degree of angular momentum. it's kind of the nonsensical construct of reality, that you can take two or more atoms locked in a single rotational frame, while independently rotating themselves, and that body would be of positive spatial dimension, and then two of those rotating in a rigid-body would constitute a negative one, and so on and so forth"
"Uh huh, I picked up on the nonsensical part." The Nurse motioned to get restraints
"Mach's principle is the notion that you take an ice skater and twirl around, the ice skater notices two things, one relative to him or her, the background stars are spinning around, and two, that his or her arms fly out due to centrifugal force. Mach's principle, as it's understood, is these two things are not a coincidence. Your arms fly out, because relative to the background stars, you are spinning. But there's an asymmetry, why would the background frame dictate the foreground, and the foreground have no influence on the background frame? Suppose that it does, where would the symmetry lie? it is not with the angular velocity, but rather the angular momentum. There is symmetry of angular momentum."
"Nurse Gretchen is going to inject you with medicine now, in order to calm you down. I get
... keep reading on reddit ➡Remember when Eric Weinstein finally revealed his grand theory on Episode #1628? That he's been promoting since 2013? Kinda?
Well at some point, his brother Bret claiming to defend the "I-drug" might as well do the same and engage in the same rigorous and thoughtful research that he claims is being covered up. Plus, he's not working full time at a university, so why not fund and carry out that research solo? Wouldn't it be easy for him to fund? He's an "expert," right?
For the record, here's a nuanced convo with a topical expert of Eric Weinstein's theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86WIfRfPDk. It doesn't go well for Eric.
Whats better than lightning striking twice?
Two brothers changing the world.
A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory
Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)
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As someone who has read a great bulk of the theories related to George's A Song of Ice and Fire, for a long time I have felt that many theories lacked one of many necessary elements I feel are necessary to make a credible theory. Firstly, they must be supported by textual references. One cannot make claims that something can happen in the universe without George's intention. And thus for a claim to be made, it must draw directly from the text. Further, I cannot claim credit for much (if any) here, all I have done is put together other theories and joint a dot or two (perhaps). I cannot remember all of the posts I have read which I have drawn from, but the two most prominent are: Russell's Grand Unified Theory and What if Nissa Nissa became the Night's Queen. Read these two if you are unfamiliar with the theories, as I will for the sake of brevity, not be making textual references.
Secondly, they must make thematic sense. George is writing a fantasy novel, which has similar themes repeated over, and over again. In order to be credible then, a theory must fit in with one of the major themes of the books. There are many themes explored, but some of the greater ones are: duty vs love, anti-slavery, fake virtue vs real virtue.
Thirdly, repetition. George never hides mysteries in one spot. He has a style, which is basically taking information about an event, a person, a creature, etc, and then revealing fractions of that total dataset. As we do not get the whole picture, we initially assume that is all we will get. However, somewhere else, he will include missing parts of the puzzle, with a linking piece, and omit the known details from other references. E.g, The Last Hero, AKA Brandon the Breaker, AKA Brandon the Builder
The one thing that I feel was inadequately referenced or explained, was Meris the Maid, i.e. the Corpse Queen. The Children made her in response to the Long Night? That seems erroneous. If we consider the Azor Ahai/Dragon side of the Long Night myth, dragons are created as a result of the blood betrayal. So the Children do something to create balance? It makes more sense to me that Meris the Maid was the opposing consequence of creating dragons. Full credit goes to this theory [credit missing, cannot find in my search history :(] for working out
... keep reading on reddit ➡Introduction
Hello! Herein lies all you need to find everything contained in my Grand Unified Theory of the Dawn. This is a large set of theories and long-form series that support each other, and form a cohesive story and picture to the events of the past (and future) of A Song of Ice and Fire.
I make liberal use of literary logic, and in general I assume there are no innocuous details (although I do also try to avoid the trap of over-analysis where I can). There are many points in my theory-crafting where I’ve come across seemingly unimportant details that actually provide critical insight into the lore of the series, upon further examination.
I will also build ideas across chapters, theories, and even series. If something seems like a stretch, keep reading, as I will often introduce an idea long before I provide all of the evidence for it (for the sake of creating a sensible topic and flow to each post).
My Grand Unified Theory consists of two major series (one eastern, one western) about the distant past, and a few stand-alone theories. Anybody commenting on one of the series, I ask that you read through each prior chapter first, soas not to miss anything critical.
Thanks, and enjoy!
Links and Future Installments
Eastern Series: The Forging of Lightbringer: Its Unnatural History
A storied history of Firewyrms across the world, the evidence that the dragons are Lightbringer, and that their creation nearly destroyed the world in the Long Night. As with all my long-form series, I go deep into detailing the textual evidence for each portion of the broader theory.
Western Series: The Sunset Kingdoms: A True History of Westeros
The full accounting of Westeros' history from the Dawn Age until the Long Night. The story of how Garth the Green was the First King of all mankind, and was first Drowned by the Hammer of the Waters, then slain by his brother the Grey King. The evidence that the Sinking was deliberately done to split Westeros in two, and the evidence that there were two Andal invasions. Finally, the story of Azor Ahai's many-named journey across the world, and his death in the Long Night. As with all my long-form series, I go deep
... keep reading on reddit ➡
Its mathematical prototype is the "water in/out of a pool" problem in elementary school mathematics. When we increase the number of pools and water pipes, the combination of different types of liquids, the time and speed of input and output, and other factors in this mathematical problem. It forms a warehouse/workshop model in the form of a dynamic tree Gantt chart. It should be the IT architecture with the simplest and most vivid mathematical prototype.
It is an epoch-making theoretical achievement in the IT field, it surpasses the "von Neumann architecture", unifies the IT software and hardware theory, and raises it from the manual workshop production theory level to the modern manufacturing industry production theory Level. Although the Apple M1 chip has not yet fully realized its theory, Apple M1 chip has become the fastest chip in the world.
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The Grand Unified Cumspiracy Theory
So I'm inclined to believe, that with all the music videos out now, that this ARG is still kept in mind. I've made a theory that may either sound like bullshit or enlightenment. Put on your tin foil condom, because I'm gonna talk about the grand unified cumspiracy theory. Note that this isn't a joke post, it's an earnest theory that I have. This theory contains all the songs in The Evolution of Tears album, including The First Immortal, lord Charlie's small time series SplashTV, and this sub. Let's get started with the first part of the theory, the dual-protagonist theory.
I do believe that throughout the album, its referring to two people who've I've nicknamed The Heartbroken and The Nerd/Stalker/Truth Seeker. Both have very different paths in life based on both the music and music videos, but both have one common ground on their start, Your Boyfriend Doesn't Scare Me.
For this theory I'm going to refer Your Boyfriend Doesn't Scare Me to YBDSM and this sub as WATOT for length.
Also, for certain songs we'll get into, some characters in the videos aren't the same ones as in others like in the theory, the Charlie character is different to the Obsession Charlie and Real to Me Charlie. Troy's role is a special one that will be dedicated to it's own part. The side characters such as Andrew, Matt and Tiana are also going to be looked at in the Troy part as well so stay tuned.
Part One: The Protagonists
Character #1: The Heartbroken
list of songs dedicated to this character (Chronological Order)
- YBDSM
- 2019 Guy
- 2004 Breakup
- Here's To Us
- Perfect Oblivion
The Heartbroken sounds like it is, it includes all the songs of a heartbroken man losing the love of his life and falling into deep dark depression that eventually takes his life. Let's take it from the top. In YBDSM, we see Charlie portrayed as the bully/boyfriend, and this character takes the form of Charlie in all these videos, so it will be more coherent. This bully character has a girlfriend that the protagonist of YBDSM wants all to himself, but never succeeds in doing so, having the bully probably stay as the boyfriend of the girlfriend. let's say that time advances and the boyfriend and girlfriend live together now, and either the girlfriend/boyfriend start developing sexually degenerate fantasies such as cucking. This goes onto 2019 Guy, where he sings about being a modern man in 2019 that likes being cucked and won't have it any other way. But,
... keep reading on reddit ➡Let me preface this by saying that this is a rather outlandish theory, but considering various aspects of the UFO phenomenon, this is an explanation that I believe is somewhat reasonable.
Firstly, the sheer distances between stars make interstellar travel very unlikely unless a civilization developed a working Alcubierre drive, functioning generation ships, or autonomous Von Neumann probes. These are all theoretically possible, but require a really advanced level of technology to achieve. For this theory, I will be working under the assumption that UFOs are the result of none of the above.
For me, the simplest, most reasonable explanation (pinch of salt needed) is that UFOs originate on Earth. However, I do not personally believe they are man-made. There are simply too many problems that would be easily solved by using the technology that is allegedly involved in these craft. It does not make sense to me for any government to use their gravity-defying tech to just fly around random airspaces, instead of streamlining their own country's economy and infrastructure.The technology that I'm talking about here is the recently patented 'Inertial Mass Reduction Device' - extraordinary claims are made in this patent - that the craft could move through different mediums without interacting with them on a physical level - passing in and out of water or the atmosphere without friction or contact. This patent, on the surface level, could easily explain sightings of the classic 'black triangles' or diamond-shaped craft. However, if we're looking to explain UFO phenomena, we shouldn't really start with US military patents.
If all the various alleged whistleblowers from skunkworks projects and the like are to be believed, then this kind of technology may have been 'reverse engineered' (hate this term) from a UFO crash in the 50s (whether or not this was the Roswell incident is still up for debate). Metamaterials, if you want to believe Tom Delonge, were recovered in a crash, and they apparently display some unusual properties. This, combined with any other technology that may have been recovered, could have laid the groundwork for developing the Inertial Mass Reduction Device.So we can probably explain at least some UFO sightings by say
... keep reading on reddit ➡Prolegomenon-to-a-Grand-Unified-Theory
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He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf
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A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory
Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)
He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Prolegomenon.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/508721702/Prolegomenon-to-a-Grand-Unified-Theory
A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory
Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)
He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Prolegomenon.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/508721702/Prolegomenon-to-a-Grand-Unified-Theory
A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory
Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)
He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Prolegomenon.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/508721702/Prolegomenon-to-a-Grand-Unified-Theory
A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory
Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)
He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Prolegomenon.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/508721702/Prolegomenon-to-a-Grand-Unified-Theory
A Prolegomenon to a Grand Unified Theory
Magister colin leslie dean the only modern Renaissance man with 9 degrees including 4 masters: B,Sc, BA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, B.Litt(Hons), MA, MA (Psychoanalytic studies), Master of Psychoanalytic studies, Grad Cert (Literary studies)
He is Australia's leading erotic poet: poetry is for free in pdf
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/book-genre/poetry/
http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wp-content/uploads/Prolegomenon.pdf
or
https://www.scribd.com/document/508721702/Prolegomenon-to-a-Grand-Unified-Theory
