Physics

• The background is my learning in 1960 of a Theory of Time and Space based on intervals of time and regions of space rather than mythical "instants" and "points". This led me on a meandering path to becoming a professional mathematician, turning a math department into a math, statistics, and computer science department which I chaired for 21 years, through a research career in topology, and computer networking to finally realizing how it all fits together.
• whitehead Ron Desmet has spent his career explaining Whitehead, who knew so many of the facts and figures involved from the beginning.
• patterns A short explanation of why formulas have not been the answer. Much more detailed versions to follow soon.
event box picture that convinced me. Trying to describe an event in terms of what I sense about space, we find LR,UD,and NF. This gives the 8 vertices RUF,RUN,RDF,RDN,LUF,LUN,LDF,LDN and 6 faces R,U,F,L,D,N familiar to us all (since the time of Plato) and 12 edges (labelled in appropriate ways by a pair of faces. Thinking topologically of the box with inside and outside, it is easy to iew each edge as a small tube between vertices, and this picture shows some of those tubes. Now seeing "event-particles' as tiny volumes entering or leaving the box at LDN/RUN, travelling one wa or the other along that tube(colored magenta),and coloring the entry/exit edges apropriately red or blue indicating a gain or loss of something(say energy?) and using green for intermediate paths, we find the pattern (that much of my topological career has been buit upon). This pattern can be viewed in terms of singlet-triplet rather easily,and that is something spectroscopists have seen, and quantum-theorist have tried to describe by viewing only formulas. Lets say you are changing energy going between LDN and RUF. You follow the pattern R--B, and to cross that gap you have only green. But following green you can go straight or visit some neighbors, but only by singlet-or-triplet. More detailed explanations will not change what actually happened. Nonsense about "convex cumbinations" and "Hermitian conjugates" and so on mean I am playing with symbols to make things seem more true; they are likely to be symbols that get in the way! /li
• One sad fact about me is that everything reminds me of a story!
• elements
• rocksalt test of a pdf image
• water snapshot of asymptote in action. I have not yet tried posting asy itself to github as a runnable. A water molecule in action illustrates what cooperation can meanand illustrates redox (reduction and oxidation). ` The two oxygens alternate ib stealing one another's electrons, but only because they have made prior arranement to lend the electron to be stolen. It makes water a very energetic molecule, yet there is no fighting going on.
• "text version for reading the code"
• Fredbird A drinking bird is an ideal pet for aomeone whoi needs to get comfortable with thermodynamics. I have named mine for Fred Astaire.