13 October 2010

random thoughts and photos

I was washing the dishes today and as i washed the inside of a pot, going around the rim in a very ordered way, i began to think about the "arrow never gets there" concept. for those of you unaware, it's this thoery, i have no idea what it's point is, but it goes something like: an arrow is shot towards a target. it gets half way there and it still has half way to go. then it gets half of the distance between the half way point and the target. it still has half that distance to go. the arrow always has half of some distance to go so how does it ever reach the target?

i was thinking about this, and a new thought came to me. it's because of the fourth dimension. the target and the arrow are both moving in time. the arrow never even gets half way to the target, because by the time it's flown the smallest fraction of a particle, everything has changed. time has moved forward. the target has changed. the arrow has changed.

and that's how i could get my pot washed and not worry about being stuck on smaller increments forever.

yeay.

anyway. does anyone remember when i mentioned my chocolate cake? well, i finally got around to putting up the photo of it. and while i'm at it, i decided to put up a few others too.



yummy!


this is a small representation of my perfectionism. yes - i did sort and chop all that dried fruit and line it up like that before i added it to my granola.



i found a microscope and took a pic of some dust on a bit of fabric.
no i didn't. i wish i did.
this is mould growing on some sour cream.

5 comments:

  1. Your last two photos made me laugh. Well it was more the comments on them.

    I'm going for a walk now... bye

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  2. Zeno's paradox

    It's a very famous mathematical paradox regarding the convergence of the series 1/2n. (It does converge, as n tends to infinity, so for all intents and purposes the arrow reaches the target.)

    For more such fun:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes

    And if you are feeling really masochistic you should read Godel, Escher, Bach and /or The Emperor's New Mind.

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  3. Re: Zeno's paradox

    Thanks. I remember learning about it in college, but I learned it in Philosophy, so that's why I didn't connect it to maths.

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  4. yep, i was feeling a bit whimsical.

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  5. Chocolaty cake was yummmm.

    That mold shot still freaks me out!

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