RobotRipping
Bluelighter
i don't see how numbers have any significance. Learn other number systems, like hexadecimal, octal, binary and you'll get what i mean.
the number 23 in binary is 10111 or in 8 bits, 00010111. I can't be bothered to convert them to octal and hex in my head but either way, doesn't this show how insignificant numbers are as having any inherent meaning? Our number system is simply based on our fingers, ie. base 10 instead of base 16 like hexadecimal or base 2, binary. Maybe you'll start seeing the binary numbers everywhere now but still it's that precognitive thing the above poster talks about.
i like math and how numbers work and find it fascinating but assigning any arbitrary meaning to these numbers isn't significant to anyone else. The golden ratio, and universal constants are cool and shit but i don't think they mean anything. Look into logarithms and the constant e, that kind of math can let you calculate all kinds of fucking cool shit, like finding the voltage of a capacitor after a certain period (time) of charging lol (Vc=Vs(1-e^-t/rc). Like what is that e doing in there? And what the fuck is e doing in the equations for radioactive decaying atoms? it's the same thing as in electronics, how fucked up is that. I know it represents an exponential relationship and the whole time constant thing but that time constant t=rc pops up all over the place.
now that i find FUCKING weird and amazing, the constant e is used in many, many other applications as well. That is a number that is significant to me, like pi and other fun ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_constant there's another one to obsess about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category
hysical_constants there's a whole page
anyway, the reason i came to this thread was to report my own instance of synchronicity. Waiting for pizza to be delivered, been like 40 minutes, something must be wrong, call the store, while calling the store, the pizza guy calls other phone to say he's here! Holy shit my pizza is here. It's weird but that kind of thing happens so much that i tend to ignore whether it is significant or not, you get caught up in that shit and you've got a ticket to schizophrenia.
During a semi-psychotic break i was obsessed with synchronicity and patterns, to the point it was irritating people but maybe i was actually on to something - that's the mystical thing about this crazy shit, there's no reason to believe that i wasn't. Of course drugs wore off and my life got back to normal and my enlightened sense of such things dissipated but deep inside i still don't know that what i found/saw was real or not.
i think obsessing over the patterns with numbers and their relationships to each other is how these genius's find these physical constants in the first place. I can see the relationship of the numbers and know there's something more to it but they somehow figure it out and put it all together.
the number 23 in binary is 10111 or in 8 bits, 00010111. I can't be bothered to convert them to octal and hex in my head but either way, doesn't this show how insignificant numbers are as having any inherent meaning? Our number system is simply based on our fingers, ie. base 10 instead of base 16 like hexadecimal or base 2, binary. Maybe you'll start seeing the binary numbers everywhere now but still it's that precognitive thing the above poster talks about.
i like math and how numbers work and find it fascinating but assigning any arbitrary meaning to these numbers isn't significant to anyone else. The golden ratio, and universal constants are cool and shit but i don't think they mean anything. Look into logarithms and the constant e, that kind of math can let you calculate all kinds of fucking cool shit, like finding the voltage of a capacitor after a certain period (time) of charging lol (Vc=Vs(1-e^-t/rc). Like what is that e doing in there? And what the fuck is e doing in the equations for radioactive decaying atoms? it's the same thing as in electronics, how fucked up is that. I know it represents an exponential relationship and the whole time constant thing but that time constant t=rc pops up all over the place.
wikipedia said:e is an irrational and transcendental constant approximately equal to 2.718281828.
now that i find FUCKING weird and amazing, the constant e is used in many, many other applications as well. That is a number that is significant to me, like pi and other fun ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_constant there's another one to obsess about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category

anyway, the reason i came to this thread was to report my own instance of synchronicity. Waiting for pizza to be delivered, been like 40 minutes, something must be wrong, call the store, while calling the store, the pizza guy calls other phone to say he's here! Holy shit my pizza is here. It's weird but that kind of thing happens so much that i tend to ignore whether it is significant or not, you get caught up in that shit and you've got a ticket to schizophrenia.
During a semi-psychotic break i was obsessed with synchronicity and patterns, to the point it was irritating people but maybe i was actually on to something - that's the mystical thing about this crazy shit, there's no reason to believe that i wasn't. Of course drugs wore off and my life got back to normal and my enlightened sense of such things dissipated but deep inside i still don't know that what i found/saw was real or not.
i think obsessing over the patterns with numbers and their relationships to each other is how these genius's find these physical constants in the first place. I can see the relationship of the numbers and know there's something more to it but they somehow figure it out and put it all together.
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