Good morning! Dr. Hypatia. What is the topic today in our classroom? How about observing stars we all together tonight then, please tell us about their movements in mathematical manner. Or shall we talk about Diophantus’ theory? ”Arithmetica” Dr. Hypatia, you are respectable “scientist”, who are still reminding us a spirit of scientific approach to everything.
Hypatia: I came to know her just a few years ago on some YouTube contents.
And then I have been so admired at those stories on her that this time on this science monologue, I can’t help writing about her eventually. Although I have just a few knowledge about her.
Alexandria, the place of a Big Bang of human knowledge: She was living in Alexandria in late 4th century to early 5th century.
Don’t blindly believe things without deeply meditating on by yourself! It is reportedly said that she often said something like that.
Her science and philosophy, that were destroyed by violence.
Stars in the sky, standing next to next we all there, all spirits huddled together, among those who are standing there, found is she I believe. Her spirit, with an astrolabe in her hand.
I have been admired at stories of revolutionary scientists who in their life were criticized as an outlaw, bothering the commonsense of the society such as Galileo Galilei. But in reality, it is quite difficult to be a person who tries to bring in an idea not exactly of revolutionary yet even of an improving something. They were courageous. And Hypatia was maybe I think one of those.
Now a days, world society looks shifting toward accepting new and revolutionary ideas than did in the era of Galileo Galilei. But in reality, the same expelling of new idea by conservatives actually is still being practiced of course in mild and gentle ways still exists, I believe.
I like star gazing. Whenever I look at stars, I can feel a kind of strength flows into my mind even if I am suffering from a negative thought caused through my daily life as I am not such competent person in my society. Dr. Hypatia, please give us the strength to carry on!
Sustainable and Development. These sounds to me somewhat conflicting. Developing something means generating entropy. Therefore, sustainable means to throw the entropy that is generated through development away as distant as possible from us. Herein, a self-proclaimed amateur scientist murmurs something that might have already been well stated by real specialists, in a way of pretending to know. But anyway, somewhat of a manner of ignorant yet eager to learn outlaw. (But maybe reading this gives you a good distraction. )
Is everything necessary?
Everything which is presently available is really necessary? Is tobacco, as somewhat tangible example, necessary? “But then tobacco makes up certain portion of economy and the tobacco economy supports people who need what is necessary therefore tobacco is necessary.” Is this logic flawless? OK then, what if tobacco is fully prohibited because it is considered unnecessary thereby people who are supported by tobacco economy are completely extinct? If those people are the consumer of modern communication network then having lost this considerable consumer block, the modern communication network, which might be one of necessary things, will be in the blink of extinction. Is this scenario practical? This kind of domino-effect is my very point in thinking of establishing a civilization in sophisticated balance. If minimizing CO2 emission needs to delete certain economic block, can other economic blocks be kept?
Feedback effect between each other; Technology, Economy, Manpower,
Of course, if energy or other industrialized system that are the source of CO2 emission are fully replaced with new system which CO2 emission is absolutely zero, then that sort of concern will be solved completely. But is that really possible? The more sophisticated balance is sought the more manpower will be needed and thereby another phase of entropy growth might be caused. The more streamlining of consumption is sought the further the vulnerability of economy might matter. The above two could be in a feedback loop; The more manpower is mobilized, the further the vulnerability of balance will extend. This could be a case in streamlining vs vulnerability of economy as well. Sophisticated is not synonymous to luxurious, of course. But can streamlined be really of innovation? After all, quantity matters, isn’t it? Otherwise, frugality overwhelms sophistication, civilization or innovation, maybe? We all would be driven to return simply back to of primitive, obsolete and then rudimentary life if it were inevitable to resign innovation because of sustainability.
Quantity matters?
Does quantity matter? But knowledge is the vital tool for sophistication and civilization and knowledge is grown in an atmosphere of diversity. Diversity needs sufficient or say, large quantity. Is this true?
A specific work necessitates another specific work
Let’s Imagine, we are now enduring primitive life and then one of our kids is suffered from a kind of ailment which normally is easy to cure if it is modern world. Although now we have knowledge on it, any facilities to cure it is no more available and therefore the kid died of it.
For Covid-19, vaccination was quite quickly developed as we have the knowledge on what is virus and how it can be mitigated and how to produce vaccination. Of course, not only the knowledge but also facilities, energies and manpower were necessary. Then furthermore apparently, even during normal days when such things as Covid-19 does not emerge these things should be kept on waiting mode. Could such industry as pharmaceutical be kept at a level that is always ready for such situation as Covid, while well minimized and shrunk as necessary for frugality the infrastructure and economy is kept?
Initially human started introducing agriculture which gave human surplus amount of food supply. The surplus further gave human opportunities for extending its activities to things other than purely food obtaining ones. That then further enhanced the human survival and at the same time generated quite a nuisance of anti-environmental byproducts.
Minimum condition of Population to Minimum Items to be in function
Returning to the theme today, let’s see how a well balanced civilization can be. Enhanced survival needs knowledge. To practice the knowledge whenever it is required needs well stand-by facilities. Well stand-by facilities need well grown economy which causes large amount of energy. The energy generates entropy which causes anti-environmental emissions. How can we minimize the anti-environmental emissions to a level that can be absolutely evaluated as no harm at the same time that the level of civilization is kept at higher level? Structure of the system should be kept. Then the quantity should be reduced. putting it another the quality is kept while the quantity is reduced. How? How about our population?
Population matters most?
The word “population” suddenly has come to my mind. To make population under control in order for it to be the best suits to balancing between creation and conservation, number of births control system will be an option. Number of births control? Yes number of births control! But how!? Oh don’t impose such a tough question! Anyway, Ok how about this. For instance, what if a government issues the right-of-giving-birth ticket to some people who were chosen in a way that can keep whole population almost constant. Calculation, of course, would be necessary taking into consideration on matters; quantity, knowledge, sophistication, innovation, civilization, diversity and minimum required volume of economy. But, number of births control? Only chosen people? Probably some people would oppose, insisting that everyone has the right to have their own children. So, the government would introduce a measure against that opposition. In the measure, all the babies born through that government birth program are raised and educated by a public organization so that no child belongs to any particular family. Immediately after being born, each and every baby is isolated from its parents with no traces left. uuuuu, Is this correct in terms of humanity? However rational its logic can be, it looks to me somewhat wrong.
Greta Thunberg, her yacht
Her yacht sailed to New York. The yacht was equipped with telecommunication and power generation device that had not been available in an era of sailing ships. I mean her yacht somehow is representing balance between creation and conservation in a way that minimizes the increase of entropy. Thanks to that telecommunication and power system on board she was able to safely navigate through once a dangerous ocean field at the same time then with minimum emission with such energy source as sun right, ocean tide and natural wind. Anyway its very strengthened hull is made of, maybe, fiber reinforced plastic which might lead another and diverse technology, thereby may consume so much of energy, economy and therefore a considerable quantity of something. Here then quantity matters again? The idea of the yacht could highly be evaluated as message since I myself has also been inspired of an idea of balanced civilization anyway. Then at the same time, it implies the difficulty as well, I suppose.
What are necessary for making semiconductor? What are required for making medicines? What are essential for making food?
For semiconductors; silicon, and other metals, energy, chemicals, clean room, factory, people who design it, procure, fabricate etc. Medicine as well and then food. Thinking of such a diversity of ingredients and facilities, I can’t help posing a question: After all, “Quantity matters most”, isn’t it? Minimum required quantity is determined at the quality which human think necessary. If the quantity is put as the most prioritized factor then it represents quality. Can the nature be in a best balance with civilization while human never give up “Fake Luxury”. Fake Luxury?! No! True luxury is I think surrounded by beautiful nature peacefully.
Future, optimistic or pessimistic?
They say world population may turn in a decline in a future. If so, naturally quantity of civilization will be suppressed in a way that can keep things at a sustainable level while quality of civilization is best ever highly sophisticated. But maybe that will be too late, comparing the speed of entropy which human is presently experiencing, with a decline rate of world population. Also to bear in mind is the way of seeking economic growth. I can’t describe it practically, but I think it should be of more spiritual. Oh, I am scarily. I am not such specialist that can speak of such a difficult thing. Everyone in the world seeks happiness although the way of realizing happiness sometimes quite a bias, yet I want to trust in human.
Once I was a lazy ant. No name nor ID was given but I was being fed with enough food. They were working. I was not. They were feeding me. There were lots of ants like me. How could I know the word “lazy”? Because an ant who once fed me said “I know you are not working at all, you are so called lazy ant”. One day, l was hit by sudden sensation of workaholic. I don’t know why but anyway I am working now and feeding another lazy ant.
Several years ago, I read a short article about “lazy ant” on some kind of news article. Then, I came up with an idea of expressing it in a personification way as above.
Lazy ants make themselves useful in unexpected ways
In that article, being described was a fact that scientists found that lazy ants exist indeed, and they are being fed by other working (task holding) ants. After all, the scientists concluded that those lazy ants were as kind of reserve work force, that article stated.
So, if some amount of work force is lost somehow, then the lazy ants will turn into working ants immediately. Maybe some sort of secretion process is underway, the article had explained.
Sorry, this is just my unclear memory of that article and therefore if you want to know it precisely and to deepen it further, you should contact real specialist.
Anyway, let me continue.
Initially I thought that those lazy ants are for keeping diversity of DNA. If ant’s population necessary for enough DNA diversity is larger than that for food hunter- gathering and furthermore working ants can collect food sufficient for feeding those idle ants as well, then the system can work. Anyway, OK, they are reserve work force. Yes, it’s quite simple interpretation and consistent logic.
So, can this mechanism be applicable to human society? If so, I want to be the lazy side forever. (You would say; You! such a man!) The point is the word “forever”. I know there is nothing being forever. Also. worth notified is that mechanism; lazy ants quickly turn into substantial work force.
Assuming that there are a lot of lazy employees in a company in which only a few people are working indeed in a productive way and then suddenly those working people have moved to another company, can those lazy people turn immediately into productive work force?
It is impossible of course! They don’t have well nurtured skill which normally is attained through out rigorous work life. In Ants case, the skill is in their DNA, perhaps.
So, how can such risk as losing skilled workers be hedged? No reserve, no spare, no standby. You! company top brass bastards! Why don’t you do things on your own!
Oh I should not use such a coarse language. Anyway, you see. The point is the spirit for work. Person who has strong spilites toward contributing a certain company, well determined in devotion, will not leave the company.
Ants do not have work spirit, maybe anyway. Spirit is not a part of system. DNA is part of system. And in ant’s case, those working ants and lazy ants are both a kind of consumable, I suppose.
Communism, capitalism, socialism, corruption-izm any -izms may contain spirit.
What is really “Working”? Imagine, a man who has long endured such hard work as pumping up groundwater from coal mine by driving the pumping device with his own muscle, then one day he invented steam engine to drive the pumping device. So, somewhat in this short story, the point is a question; did he come up with the idea of steam engine in order to escape from such backbreaking hard work and then to be lazy?
Probably, he would further make tremendous effort to invent another new machine that is more energy efficient and more powerful than those initial models. Or maybe he would be really lazy like nobles in corrupted dynasty who are sedentary on his success.
Imagine again, here we see a girl who wants to be a pianist. She then told her lover who is a computer scientist that she wants to be a pianist and therefore she is “working hard” to practice playing the piano. Then, the lover said; My sweetheart, you don’t need to make such “inefficient effort”. I can build a piano control program with a computerized system so any music can be played in piano sound whether or not it is composed by you or others. You do not need to endure hard lessons to play the piano. Frowned, she then murmured, “You don’t really understand what my desire is all about.” ……. She left from him forever. “Good Bye!”
What she wants is simple. She wants to make something embodied within a time and space where she and her audiences can share the feeling powered with the music. And the fact that she is now really and directly playing the piano by her body, nerves, intelligence, consciousness, and memory of tremendous hard work so far etc. further enhance that feeling, a kind of ecstasy state.
Imagin, she and her audiences are in a state of ecstasy.
Oh, what was the theme today? So, lazy ant. The pianist, she doesn’t want to be a greedy company top-brass nor corrupted noble rather she needs hard work only. Her hard work is not for becoming lazy person. Hard work itself is the aim.
Then, could that lazy ant feel such extasy in being lazy? Or for lazy ants, is it possible that there is nothing like ecstasy even after getting transformed into workaholic ants, I wonder. And then, do only the queen and prince gain a sensation of ecstasy when they feel their group of ants thriving? At this moment, I do not know it nor even could imagine it. In case of human, there may be nothing like spares as any idling human can never be replacement in such a quick manner, like ants, as each has its own personality.
For ants, such expression of “lazy” will never fit. For human, ecstasy may fit to the discussion in Knowledge Argument.
私は当初、怠け者アリは DNA の多様性を維持するためのものだと思っていました。 十分な DNA 多様性に必要なアリの個体数が狩猟採集に必要な個体数よりも多く、さらに働きアリがそれらの休眠中のアリに与えるのに十分な食料を集めることができる場合、システムは機能します。 とにかく、まあ、彼らは予備の労働力です。 ということで、それは非常に単純な解釈であり、同時に、首尾一貫した論理です。
中国で最近発見された陥没孔は、進化または環境変化からの隔離場所として何らかの形で機能してきたため、生物系の失われた世代をある程度保持している可能性があります。 ——— 一部の Web 記事はそう述べています。
そして、そこでは、太古の森林が発見されたのです。
それで、ご存知のように、これらの記事を読んで「The Lost World」を思い出しました。 私が十分に成熟した大人であると言えるなら（本当に？）、このニュースはその小説の現代の大人バージョンになる可能性があります.。まあ、そこに保存されている失われた世界のほとんどが、動物ではなく植物になることは察しがつきますが・・・・。
How to completely eliminate war? In our DNA, there is a region that drives us to war, isn’t it? So, a vaccination for war DNA pattern? —– Oh, how foolish—- （ここだけ英文）
When I was an elementary school kid, I read that famous novel “The Lost World”. In a plateau in South America, in early 1900s found is a lost generation of biological environment and system where dinosaurs are roaming around. That is the overall scenery of that novel. The plateau provides perfect isolation to the biological environment there from any evolutionary movement. (At that time when the novel was written, collision of meteorite had not even yet on the mind of human.) For such kids like me at that time, this background setting looked somewhat scientific and practical though at the same time I was well aware that it is just a fiction.
Then around 50 years later, I have encountered another, more and further realistic “Lost World”.
A sinkhole recently found in China may keep somewhat lost generation of biological system because of its construction, which somehow has functioned as isolation from evolutionally or environmental changes. ——— some web articles state so.
In the sinkhole, they found ancient forest.
As you now can guess, these articles reminded me of “The Lost World”. If I can say I have been well matured adult (really?), then this news can be modern adult version of that novel. Nevertheless, I know that most of the preserved lost generation will be of vegetation rather than animal.
Oh, somewhere on the globe do I believe there should be a place where dinosaurs are still well preserved alive. (—- Only when I am drunk.)
Isolated Environment that keeps, to some extent, pasts
Regaining my composure, I just have reconsidered that stupid idea in a relatively adult way.
Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world (a maximum depth of 1,642 meters). Deep down its water would be an ideal preservation facility. Of cause such a place will never allow ground animals to be alive. However maybe a kind of things like skin of dinosaur or even the part of its flesh may possibly be preserved well sufficiently for scientific purposes.
So, it comes in my mind that if Lake Baikal is an ideal place, then ocean as well be such place.
OK then, let’s raise a movement among academics and knowledge-seeking billionaires. A movement; Excavate deep ocean floor such as Mariana Trench. Or of Lake Baikal. The bottom of Baikal, which considered once a ground area above sea level, may keep some precious treasure of knowledge for ancient biological system. So, I suppose there would be found might be of remarkably preserved, pickled-in-water like specimen in formalin, —— a remain of dinosaur. There it is pickled Lost World!
Oh, please someone, get me back to sober.
Even with the most advanced technology available for us, it is impossible to undertake excavation in such an extremity of Mariana Trench or the deepest area of Lake Baikal. —– this is quite normal perception. If anyone who can say it possible, then please do it and tell me the result via some kinds of well-known ways like putting an article about it on National Geographic. Or it’s already been done?
Anyway, after all it is not exactly “The Lost World”.
So, in our DNA found would be sinkhole or plateau in the DNA; data bank of our long-forgotten ancestors
Is it possible to resurrect dinosaur? Like in that modern novel and movie.
Maybe we might find in DNAs in some modern life forms including human, “The Lost World” or say, a kind of plateaus or sinkholes, which are well isolated from any shifts caused by evolutionally mutation of DNA. Then by collecting those parts of DNAs from several life forms, we might obtain a set of parts that can be assembled together into another life form, like assembling Lego blocks. It’s like deciphering ancient language by tracing back the origin of words from several modern languages. Words and Grammatical order etc. in ancient language might be dissipated and be hidden in several languages in the cause of history. For instance; If some birds have fragments of DNA that contains information on the spine structure of T-Rex. Then if some specific reptiles have data in their DNA of the internal organs of T-Rex. And if some fishes bring fragments of DNA information for —— of T-Rex.
The point is how to distinguish each specific DNA block that can be the parts of once flourished life form and how to draw the assembly drawing of those specific blocks.
Maybe this kind of concept has already been announced worldwide. Nevertheless, above statement is just an imagination and therefore there is no proof nor theory nor facts that can support it. —– Just a playful ignorant monologue, it shall be.
Whatever. I am longing for live dinosaurs. Those news articles on ancient forest in Sinkholes ignited my imagination. Hang in there! For those who are carrying out research activity for that wonderful sinkhole.
Somewhere there might be sinkhole of DNA?
How to completely eliminate war? In our DNA, there is a region that drives us to war, isn’t it? So, a vaccination for war DNA pattern? —– Oh, how foolish—-
Isaac Newton, in his world, what rules over it is differential calculus. In that mathematics system being the basis is infinitely continuous and theoretically possible always of division, therefore, it is uncountable but quantifiable. Therefore, logically it is possible to describe any small value of energy. Max Planck, a physicist in the later generation in this field than that of Newton, introduced new concept that is different from what Newton had introduced. Energy value takes only values of integer multiple of a minimal element.
Coins in quantifying energy value
Coins can make only fixed discrete value. Assuming that the consumer tax ratio is 0.3% and the price of a product “chewing gum” is 1 $ and then the consumer tax value comes to 0.003 $, how can you pay that 1.003 $? Even if you have 3 of 1 cent coins, you can only make 0.03$. Maybe, you have to cut 1 cent coin into further ten pieces like a pizza shared by ten people. Of course, in case of large amount of money transaction, such value as 1,000,000$ for instance, the consumer tax value in the above case is 3,000$. Then you only need 3000 of 1$ bills. You don’t need to cut each bill into pieces. I interpret it as above; the energy behavior is like our currency system. To specialists, am I correct?
So, space, time, whatsoever, everything has its own the least coin, maybe or ——
So, what if everything should be composed of minimal elements like the least coin? Especially for physics, they are contemplating to establish the theory with elementary particles. As an element it should be, each of them will never disperse, I think maybe??? Can the time also be dividable up to a minimal element? If so, it’s like clock needle for seconds. Probably, such idea had already been taken or rejected by those specialists and they would say, at my rudimentary rough imagination, “If you will pardon me, please let me tell you that you have to study physics in proper manner.” Then, I would retaliate against that statement saying, “How the proper manner be defined while relativity, probability etc. rules your world”. Then I would take another sip of whisky as a preparation for escape operation.
In a cyber would everything has its own the least unit. A bit. Pixel etc
Now a days, computer graphics technology can create visual image of very high-resolution. Movement, color, shapes etc. of the vision, all those look very real. Of cause, that visual image is composed of the least unit such as bits, pixel, system clock pulse (basis of time shift) etc. And as long as every element is synchronized with each other, whole system functions as continuous as Mr. Newton imagined. ——- Maybe I think, without any proof though.
The universe is being like cyber world, isn’t it? Or that is somewhat of crazy idea?
So, here introduced such a crazy, drunken idea. Space (universe), or say, Cosmology is established with a perception of cyber world. Loop quantum gravity might be the one that I imagine, though I have not even taken a glimpse of the theory and I don’t know if it is as I imagined. But considering a fact that cyber world is expanding in an exponential speed like big bang while the development of theory of physics has been not that way, that latest theory of physics might lack something vital which computer scientists have long introduced into cyber world, though maybe computer scientists are not aware of the fact that that ordinally thing for them is quite a vital to cosmology indeed. —– I think so —-, Oh I am sorry, this is a monologue. (In a past I read a book which says there is a theory in which cosmos is modeled like cyber world. Anyway, that book did not show anything of the theory itself. Then, I thought that there might be other people who are as crazy as me.)
Planck constant will finally be described as a converging value of an infinite series, may or may not be, like Pi
Then, once more, let me be in my indulgence. Pi can be calculated by some geometrical way, like a “coin” infinitely divided into infinite numbers of triangles. Maybe someone remembers that in their elementary school age in a math-class did that process to obtain approximation of the value of Pi. So, if cosmos or universe or simply say space can be mathematically modeled then Planck constant might possibly be obtained through calculation only without any value obtained through experiments of physics. What?!Are you ok?! Specialists or academics in this field would exclaim so again.
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