The uncertainty theory

The Uncertainty Theory

I know that you are lost in foreign ordered chaos,

And that's alright.

That's alright.

Take my hand to see every silver lining there's to be,

'cause we're alright.

We're alright.

To be by yourself is uncertainty.

To travel with another is accuracy.

Remember those words when times are tough,

Remember, we can help you off of your knees.

And everything's alright.

To my daughter

                My priceless daughter who I do not yet know. I love you. I love you because I can already empathize for your future.  I know what you will endure because there are constants in life that everyone will experience. These constants are hard to face sometimes, and I am sorry because I am using my will to decide that you will intersect with them. But forgive me because once these obstacles have been overcome the reward is far greater than any work you had to put in, do not forget that. I tell you this from my own experience.

                 I have seen a great amount of obstacles and I am still receiving these in a grand experience. I know that you will experience these. I hope that you will inherit my wit and be stronger than I have been. I want you to succeed me. Become better than I ever will be. Give me something I can be proud of creating. Life is overwhelming, but we have it, which means all of us have the ability to hold on to it for as long as entropy will allow. And we have instinct that says we will do anything to survive. I know you will not give up. Your instinct will not let you. Accept that and keep moving forward. I will teach you everything I know. I will tell you what to expect. Keep my words in mind, but most importantly: Enjoy yourself and take only what you need from it. 

read carefully.

This is a lie

Once there was a boy who ran around town saying that he was a compulsive liar. Nobody believed the boy. However the boy came to a particular man and said that he was a compulsive liar. To which the man replied, no I'm not. And the boy believed him.

Four-dimensional 'nonsense'

Thinking In Four Dimensions

            Height, width, and depth are three very important dimensions that allow us to judge shapes on a three dimensional plane. Through seeing this we are able to measure the surface area of an object, and/or its distance between another object. If we had no depth, and could only see the height and width of things, then we would constantly be bumping into everything! So that third dimension is a very important factor. Using it I will explain why hypercubes are not truly four dimensional, and I will show what one will look like on a geometric plane.

            Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity said that Measurements of various quantities are relative to the velocities of observers. Velocity is a measurement of change, which happens over  time. If the quantities were to be our three dimensions of height, width, and length then the fourth dimension is velocity which we can say is time. What we have now are geometric shapes named "Hypercubes" which are said to have four dimensions. There are many Hypercubes that can be made, but a 'Tesseract' is one of the most simplest of the shapes. A Tesseract is a cube with a cube inside of it creating a total of eight cubes within itself. In short, it is cube-ception:

            People have put this in a three dimension simulation of where it rotates within itself which in essence would give it velocity, however on a two dimensional plane the shape remains stagnant, and a cube could also be rotated on a three dimensional simulation. In a two dimensional plane, as you see above, it only becomes an exploitation of depth to create an object within itself. So I believe that it is not a true four dimensional shape.

            A four dimensional shape will have to be something that does not remain the same in any plane of conception. So I formed a theory that a four dimensional shape could be drawn if our perception of it was constantly changing. One way this could work would be to draw it as a paradox like the "Penrose Stairs" drawing. So after a long night of critical thinking, simple line drawing, and lots of erasing, I was able to place a four dimensional shape on a two dimensional plane:

            As you look at the shape your vision of it teeters between it being a cut out of four squares connecting to each other, and a cube. It fails to make sense of how it would exist in three dimensions, but you perception keeps adjusting itself to try and make sense of it. This constant change in perception of the shape gives it that fourth dimension of velocity. And through this knowledge we can create a hyper four dimensional shape:

Which creates a total of eight four dimensional shapes, like the Tesseract does with making eight three dimensional shapes.

            I feel that modern math has missed conceived what four dimensions really look like. Hypercubes are only an exploit of surface area in three dimensions. True four dimensional shapes maintain constant change over time which gives it velocity. And velocity is relative to the other quantities being measured. This is my understanding of 'outside the box' thinking and I hope this inspires you to think critically about how dimensions are formed.

Works Cited

Einstein, A. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, New York: H. Holt and Company (1916     (translation 1920)), Print.

Ernst, Bruno. The Eye Beguiled: Optical Illusions. Benedikt Taschen. 1992, Print.

T. Gosset: On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions, Messenger of         Mathematics, Macmillan. 1900, Print.

Hanson, J.R. International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science & Technology.    Harrisonburg:  Taylor & Francis Ltd. 2014, Print.

Grosse, Harald. Communications in Mathematical Physics. Munster: Springer Science &      Business Media B.V. 2014, Print.

DeVito, Jason. Differential Geometry & its Applications. Tennessee: Elsevier Science, 2014. Print

Fly into tomorrow

BREAK. THE. SPEED. OF. SOUND.

Rise up from this deep  fissure!

Break your wings of dispair,

weighing you to the ground!

And break the fucking speed of sound.

FLY INTO TOMORROW

FLY INTO TOMORROW!

FUCK WHATEVER'S BEHIND YOU

AND  FLY INTO TOMORROW.

Remember what you've learned

Look at what's ahead

Prepare for the worst,

and you might not end up dead.

We all see the same thing.

All from different angles.

We all think the same thing,

but no one wants to speak up.

That's why we sing:

Rise up from this deep  fissure!

Break your wings of dispair,

weighing you to the ground!

And break the fucking speed of sound.

FLY INTO TOMORROW

FLY INTO TOMORROW

FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK

AND FUCKING FLY INTO TOMORROW.

An essay of time

Time

                Have yourself look at time, in time, at the wrong time, with time, when it's about to be the right time, in order for time to become time of which time becomes itself while decreasing in time, every time, at a time, until the end of time, around a time when time is about to end because if you look at time then you can move through time for you are a space in time all the time.

Why I continue to dislike Fallout New Vegas

In a previous post I compared Fallout 3 with Fallout New Vegas. In that post I only highlighted the big details which makes the games stand out. Well now I'm going to rant about why I continue to dislike New Vegas.

• Map laziness

The exploration value in that game is beaten down to a pulp. It reduces about 70% of the map locations to small shacks, huts, or camp sites used only for finding star bottle caps. That quest was probably the worst idea for a quest. Not the fact that its a drawn out 'collect this many of this item' quest, but the fact that it is a sorry excuse to fill up the Mojave with unimaginative locations instead of places that could yield interesting stories. When compared to the capital wasteland the size is laughable. Also invisible walls. Seriously? "You can't go any further in this direction" was the best you could come up with? I shake my head at Scott Everette.

Fallout 3 vs. Fallout New Vegas

Whilst playing Fallout New Vegas, the successor to the award-winning game Fallout 3, the question of which game is better kept running through my head. After giving the question some thought I've decided to put said thoughts into organization.

Fallout 3 opens up the main character being born in vault 101 then proceeds to flash forward through significant checkpoints of his life up to the point of him breaking out of the vault to find his father. The 'boy meets world' theme has been set. A boy who has been sheltered in an underground vault has been opened up to a brand new-...irradiated, destroyed, post-apocalyptic world. There's nothing I love more in an RPG than discovery, and boy does this setting scream it. Without surprise the game delivers a wasteland full of mysteries, enemies, and stories to be uncovered. From battling 20-foot tall mutants with a cannon that shoots eight mini-nuclear bombs to assisting a society consisting of only children, roaming these wastes will keep you distracted from the reason of why the hell you left the vault in the first place. Oh right...upon finding your father and watching him die you're continuing his work on purifying the wasteland's water with an FEV virus called G.E.C.K, AKA Project purity. Along the way you get in a conflict with the Enclave, an army decked out in power armor, who wants to use the FEV virus to continue a pre-war super soldier project. Although another army, the Brotherhood of Steel, who is also decked out in power armor comes to your aid due to your similar conflict with the Enclave. By end-game the main character has two choices of whether to blow up the Brotherhood of Steel HQ, or the Enclave HQ.

Fallout New vegas pans West from Washington DC to Nevada and centers in on a courier staring death in the face. A man in a checkered suit stands before the courier holding a platinum poker chip in one hand and a gun pointed directly at the courier's head in the other. Bam. The courier is shot. But the courier survives the shot to the head and is stitched up by a local doctor. Now the Courier will travel across the desert to get some answers on why his/her delivery was hijacked and why the man attempted to murder the courier. Along the way the courier learns of a war over the Hoover Dam power supply between the New California Republic, an army trying to restore democracy in the Mojave with diminishing resources, and Caesar's Legion, a tribal army who believes that democracy is a failure. Behind the scenes is Robert House, owner of Robco Industries and New Vegas, who wants the damn's power supply to power New Vegas so he can rake in more profits. While the Desert isn't much to explore, and much smaller, the courier has more options on deciding the fate of the Mojave. The courier can join with the NCR, Mr. House, Caesar's Legion, or choose to be neutral between each faction. Whichever faction the courier chooses drastically changes the outcome of the mojave making the storyline significantly less linear than Fallout 3.

So when deciding which game is better the decision boils down to the player's opinion of gameplay. If the player favors more cinematic situations, sci-fi, and exploration then the player might prefer Fallout 3. If the player favors having more options on how to progress through the story-line then the player might prefer Fallout New Vegas. Both games are great and I highly suggest playing both.

Me.

So I've decided to start blogging my thoughts, obviously. So I'm just going to speak my mind. I see blogs as an online diary that's private and public at the same time. Private in the sense that I'm guarded by the internet wall and public that other people can read it. I can't see who reads the blogs so I obtain no self-consciousness about letting others read it.

That's good for a person like me. I'm so heavily introverted that sharing my deep thoughts, important or not, are rarely expressed. Having no outlet for my thoughts and feelings I think is unhealthy.

Let me talk a bit about myself. I'm a rare human being. My brother once used the perfect metaphor for me. He called  me a 'shiny', referring to a shiny pokemon. Why am I shiny? I'm left-handed with a blood type of O-.

But more importantly, I strive to be as peaceful as possible, but I also lust for adventure! My sign is the Taurus, and boy does the sign fit me. I crave serenity, but offend me in any way be ready for a rampage!

 I have little close friends whom I treat with much respect, and many acquaintances. Often I change best friends. I have yet to keep the same best friend for more than 2 years.

I lack motivation which I'm really trying to work on. So far the only way to get me motivated is to give me a command.

In 9th grade I started telling people I went by my first name 'James' when really I go by my middle name 'Trevor'. Most of the time I would introduce myself to people as 'Trevor' if I felt they owed some importance to me and 'James' if I knew they weren't going to be anymore than someone that I knew.

As I said before I'm very introverted. I hardly say much because I keep my words in my head. I feel more comfortable in a small group when in a social situation.

That's about it for tonight. Thanks for reading to whoever read this!