I swear I'm not lazy!

I'm making my list for the A to Z challenge. I know what the first week will be, and a few other days. As of right now, I have 14 out of 26, so a little more than half. Woo. Since this is the first time I've participated in this, I'm going to stick with what I've been writing about. So expect math, science, and random thoughts about letters. I've been working on some new tricks in the free time I have, and I hope to try a couple this month. We'll see what happens.See you on the first.

Something short.

The mathematician sees the world as numbers, charts and graphs. The world can quantified, growth can be plotted, and there are patterns and reason that dictate the shapes of things.
The physicist sees reality as things that you can touch, smell, see, and hear. They break the world into small parts, and the world exists as electrical impulses and microscopic particles.
The world lives, breathes and changes in the mind of a biologist. An artist sees the meaning behind the object while writers tell the stories of them. The musician hears all of this, and writes a soundtrack for it.
The philosopher see all of this, and thinks that he is dreaming. With the right state of mind; space around him can be bent, time is sped up and slowed, laws can be changed. All this can be done because what is real only exists in the mind.

Black-hole day!

Oh, wow. Today is the wormhole day, isn't it? When I started this blog, I was a farmer with an interest in science and math, and I had access to a co-workers textbook for thermodynamics. Now I'm working in research at a mushroom spawn farm and am trying to juggle my hobbies(still math and science), life, and trying to remember to write this.
 I started my last post with black-holes, hoping to work my way to wormholes. It has been put off, but for now let's forge forward. If I found a wormhole on this side of the closed space loops, I would go forward to the time when Matrix technology would allow me to download information into my brain. Or just replace it all together with a synthetic brain that can be switched on and off at will. Really, I would love to move forward in time. What the future would bring is interesting. I'm interested in seeing what will become of me and the world around me. And I would travel back to the distant past, because I think the Greeks, Romans, and Mayans had fancier technology than we think they do. And really, who would pass up the opportunity to just keep going forward or backwards? You could see if the universe ends, or begun, or if it moves in a circular pattern of expanding and shrinking, with the same events being played over and over with small variations each time, until the 5 x 10^1000000 time when chaos has finally made a world so unlike our own.
Wouldn't you be interested in the world around a wormhole though? I mean, assuming a collapsed wormhole exists at the center of a black-hole, then the world that exists around it would be fascinating to see. Space would be so drastically dilated, it would seem, that the things we think of normal would be different. Since it would take light longer to travel a distance that seems short, the person standing next you may seem shorten and stretched. He probably couldn't hear you either, since I doubt sound travels fast enough to traverse the long distance. I'm speculating though. Nothing stops me from writing, posting is another matter completely. When I get system to remember to post, I'll dive deeper into the world of black-holes, biology, and a little programing and math. If I don't see you until the A to Z challenge, then be safe and take care.

Force and Black Holes.

Exercise is the most important tool in the tool box of writers and thinkers. The increased blood flow benefits a properly exercised mind. I've asked in the past, but how do you stimulate your creativity? Besides puzzles and problems, I like meditation to help with focus.It comes in all shapes and sizes, from sitting quietly and breathing, to reading the same passage over and reflecting on it. Even taking a quiet couple of hours to sit and focus on writing helps with focus.
My meditative writing state will help my transport back into the world of science. I want to take the opportunity to explore the lands of time travel, a world explored by many minds; some talented, some imaginative, and others that make little sense.
I know by looking at my traffic for this site, that these post aren't all that popular. It's what I think about though, and this gives me a chance to talk to myself. Let's get started, shall we?
I want to talk about time dilatation, first. Black holes were my introduction to the deeper world of astronomy and astrophysics, so it would be some what fitting to start with black holes and the massive gravity they create.
Gravity is a force. An object falls to the earth due to this force. It not only falls, but it accelerates. People who took a high school physics class can usually recite at least one of the three laws of gravity. But how many can recite the equation "The force of gravity is equal to the gravitational constant multiplied by the ratio of the product of two masses over their distance squared." And that, my imaginary friends, is how calculate the force of gravity. If you wanted to know the force between, say, the sun and the earth, then all you would need to know is the mass of both objects (1.9891 × 10³⁰ kg for the sun and 5.972E24 kg for the earth) and the distance (1 AU or 149,597,871 km)  between their centers of gravity and plug it into that calculation. A funny thing happens with an equation like this. If the gravitational constant is just that, a constant, then the way you would increase the force of gravity is by increasing the product of the mass of two objects (which is easy to do with a mathematical error) or to decrease the distance between them. The other thing is, when the distance of the objects has reached 0, then you have reached the limit for the equation.
A black hole shrinks in size, but the mass stays the same, allowing you to draw closer to its center of gravity. So the force of gravity is greater. This was the way black holes were explained to me.
So how does time travel work with black holes? 
Well, I guess that's a topic I can save for next time. Until then, I need to post this otherwise it will sit in my drafts folder with the hope that "Someday I'll edit it and publish it!", and I can't have that. So hopefully I'll keep you in suspense until then.

February's Post for Insecure People.

And now, for your reading pleasure, this month's Insecure Writers Support Group! Not many read my little blog, but the ones who do usually come from the support group. I also get a chance once a month to read other people's blogs. To all the automated bots and confused Croatians that stumble across my page, you should check out Alex J. Cavanaugh's blog. He leads a ninja army will rule the internet someday soon.
Ah, February. A short month of cold days, and home to the holidays I don't like. March was know for it's blizzards where I grew up, so Groundhog Day and it's weather predictions never made sense. President's Week meant the invasion of rich out-of-staters with too much money and not enough patience. It was good if you worked at the ski resorts they frequented, or any of the other winter jobs that depended on their business, but you would think that people on vacation would be friendly and more relaxed. Meh. So it goes.
It seems almost worthless to complain about that other holiday that February is know for. Really, wait a week. The internet will remind you of all the single people and the couples that exist in the world. It is the best time of the year to read the "Seeking" ads. Subtlety disappears this time of year and those ads get hilarious.
Insecurities, right. I'm feeling great right now, thanks to an increase in Vitamin D. The sun is staying out longer these days, and it fills my brain with plans. I start thinking about what I want to do over the coming months, and all the good days spent outside. They tell me an increase in exercise, activity, and brain games helps increase the neurological functions and creativity. Now that I'm getting back into the swing of posting, I could use all the help I can get when it comes to being creative. On top of my usual math and science habits, I'm working on a new language. How about you? What do you do to keep your brain active and young?
Laziness causes the brain and the body to become squishy. Man, when was the last time I read a good book? How a bad one? As always, I feel like I hit a wall, and can't write anything worthwhile. The best way to get over that is to write something down and force yourself thourgh it. Something will come along that works.
Do you want some advice about how to keep it together when the world is falling apart? If you just keeping joking, just keep laughing, and do all the puzzles you can while you sit in your bathrobe, then you'll do fine. The key to writing your short stories, scientific papers, or the grocery list is to just turn off your brain for just one moment and let your fingers talk for you. Let them talk about heat, pressure, and fried chicken. Let them explain the formulas that hide behind the graphics of the world. Listen to the typing noise as they write songs, poetry, and prose. Your brain only stops you by over-analyzing the world around you. It stops you from going forward. In that 2 seconds you stopped to think, the world just moved. To all of my readers, imaginary, real, or just simply complex, the only secret I can tell you today, the first Wednesday in a short month, is to turn your mind off and to just write the words at your fingertips.

Something simple for the week.

Something simple tonight. Just a little bit of biology and math. I'll ease myself back into weekly posts that actually have a theme.
Trying to find biology papers that have the same level of mathematics as physics is not that common. It's a shame though, because the potential is definitely there.
To say that they don't exist would be lying. Go and find a college level paper on DNA. Chances are high that it will be full of topological equations describing the bends and curves of the structure. And DNA is a blast if you want mathematics. The topology of the structure. The logical data structure of how it stores the information that makes you, you. And the chemistry that makes up the strands. How it's built of nucleobases built of molecules, which are described in that beautifully obtuse and confusing language know as Statistical Mechanics.
The way that cells divide and multiply make bacteria cultures look like something out of a fractal geometry textbook. And, if you look hard enough, you can find algorithms describing how genes will mutate over generations. This fits in the equations describing the probability of those genes mutating, as well as the probability of them surviving in a given environment. The more I learn about math, the more I think about the fact that it's an old language that can describe objects with precision.
Really, it can describe the patterns of ants, people, and a four stroke engine, as well as the curves of the body. There are people out there who study the math of biology. And that is the work I want to read next.

Goodnight, and sleep well.

  Being single is easy; there's only one person you have worry about your decisions affecting. Go ahead and buy the junker with no airbags, you have no passengers on a daily basis and you'll have plenty of time to work on it since you're by yourself. Any sort of love is hard, you have to be able to give yourself to another, and learn how to give the right amount of trust and hope they do the same for you. There's so much that go wrong, and so many ways that can end with you sitting on the couch, depressed, or in an unmarked grave in the middle of a forgotten canyon.
Too much trust, and it's all over. The world will eat you up and it will destroy you. You will know pain, and it may become familiar. But no trust at all is cynicism. The world will become nothing but a dark twisted monster that only purpose is to sneer in your face and remind you how it just hates you. Strength gives us the chance to change the world around us, to create something that everyone can enjoy. We must be able to look at what is happening around us, and we must stand up to the challenge. Courage is what we need then: courage to walk up to the girl at the end of the bar; courage to take her home; courage to make it work out in the end. But life is never so cut and dried. We scramble through the brambles of the interlacing branches of other people's lives. Sometimes they snap back in our faces, and other times they simply snap in our hands. It's a confusing mess, and we try our best to find something that makes sense in it. Wisdom is the light we need. Wisdom will help us find patterns in what looks like a confusing mess; wisdom will help us decide what is worth our time and effort, and wisdom will help us decide what the difference is between the things we can change and the things we cannot.
Love has destroy men more powerful than I. Love was the downfall of heroes and gods! Love is one more thing that makes no sense in a world with no meaning and too many coincidences. What do we do? Follow Pandora's lead, baby, and just hope. Hope nothing blows up in our faces, and hope that there is some meaning. Here's to hope; let's hope that it's all we need.