Friday, September 23, 2011

Our Continuing Discussions Continues: What is Self Evident?


Bill Gates:  "The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

George Washington:  If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Annie:  "The sun will come up tomorrow."

Albert Einstein:  "One sees that in this paradox the germ of the special relativity theory is already contained. Today everyone knows, of course, that all attempts to clarify this paradox satisfactorily were condemned to failure as long as the axiom of the absolute character of time, or of simultaneity, was rooted unrecognized in the unconscious. To recognize clearly this axiom and its arbitrary character already implies the essentials of the solution of the problem."

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "The unconscious.  Yeah, Right."

Phil:  "What's on the other side of our Universe?"

John McLaughlin:  "Many universes?"

Phil:  "We need a place and time before spacetime."

M. C. Escher:  "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check."

Salvador Dali: The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

Phil:  Multiverse. Right.  An infinitely variable spiral hyperchronospheric cosmological mobius strip.

Donald Trump:  "As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big."

Carl Jung:  "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

Gypsy Rose Lee:  "Let me entertain you."

Phil:  "From a quantum dramatics perspective her quarks are astonishing! Galactically speaking, of course."

McMurphy:  "I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this."

Groucho:  “Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?”

Phil:   "Reality!  A dynamic equilibrium of Multiversal (infinite universes) Mandelbrot curvature in ID (infinite dimensions)."

Janet Jackson:  "Wardrobe malfunction."

Phil:  "The PolyMcMurphic Law:  In our Multiverse, everything that can go wrong has already gone wrong...an infinite number of times!"

Yogi Berra:  "It's déjà vu all over again."

Phil:  "Any news?"

Chauncey Gardner:  "I like to watch."

Phil:  "Strunk said it best."

Albert Einstein:  Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

Phil:  Where did all that energy go?  Oh dear, what's the matter now?  Dimensional phase change?"

Stephen Hawking:  "However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem."  "My goal is simple.  It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

Phil:  "There are limits of course.  Abstraction is always incomplete. There is only one complete model of Reality.  Full scale."

Stephen Wright: "You can't have everything, where would you put it?"

Isaac Newton:   “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

Phil:  "Did you see the Darryl Hannah version of 'Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman?'"

Barbara Seaman:  Condoms should be marketed in 3 sizes, jumbo, colossal, and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.

Werner Heisenberg:  "It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms. Furthermore, it is very difficult to modify our language so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental pictures, and this ability, too, is a result of daily experience. Fortunately, mathematics is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a mathematical scheme - the quantum theory - which seems entirely adequate for the treatment of atomic processes; for visualization, however, we must content ourselves with two incomplete analogies - the wave picture and the corpuscular picture."

Phil:  "What's the matter?  Dimensional differential juxtaposition? Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?"

Ben Franklin:  "Time is money."

Phil:  "Can the human mind grasp a what's-sa-ma-giggy-do-hickie?"

Thomas Carlyle:  "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden."

Phil:  "Did you take two aspirins?"

Anonymous:  "Love makes the world go 'round."

Phil:  "If it's real, it has an electron volt equivalent."

Donald Trump:  “It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”

Rosalind:  "Thou speak wiser than thou art ware of."
Phil:  "For a discerning standard model, that's a massive proposition."