tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61718221214900360732023-11-16T03:44:28.453-08:00transcendental Dan Mimishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02528901629400087125noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171822121490036073.post-71041521515103112162013-03-30T10:53:00.001-07:002022-04-17T07:06:04.959-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Now that the God
particle (Higgs boson) has apparently been found <i>and made it to the media on Pi Day (!)</i>,
how about we search for God himself or, at least, his nephew (and that’s a poetic license, but of
course, since both I and Peter Higgs are atheists).</span></div>
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After watching the glorious idea of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OMq9he-5HUU">song
for π</a> (which could go by the name 'the <b><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>pi</i></span></b> in <span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i>pi</i></b></span>ano') it hit me: how about the DNA of (i.e. generated by the sequence of numbers in) <b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">π</span></i></b>,
<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">e</span></i></b> and, eventually, other <span style="color: #c00000;">famous transcendental numbers*</span>?</div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;">* See some
</span><a href="http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/trans.html"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;">. Some consider </span><b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">e^π</span></i></b><span style="color: #c00000;"> to be the
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I know, the DNA plays with 4 letters and 10 is not a
multiple of 4. Of course we can be creative and find plenty of ways around
that. Quite handy, for instance, would be to use the Base 4. To each digit (out
of 0 – 1 – 2 and 3) we assign a letter. There will be 4! = 24 possible
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Now I’m not saying we’ll be able to create some impossible
entities such as, say, an honest politician, but could any (even only
partially) meaningful DNA sequencing pop up? Of course that a <span style="background-color: yellow;">combination</span> of
the meaningful DNA sequences of different transcendental numbers is also to be
considered (remember, the intriguing <b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">e^π </span></i></b>is a <span style="background-color: yellow;">combination</span> of two transcendental numbers).</div>
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P.S. I just saw the “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OMq9he-5HUU">song
for π</a>” some 2 hours ago, I did some quick online search and didn’t find
anything close to the "DNA of pi" in the sense I've mentioned it. Someone let me know if it already happened,
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2. And since I’m at it, how about April 13 (4/13 --> 413 =
314 backwards) being declared the <b><i><span style="color: #c00000;">Anti Pi Day</span></i></b>?
Hey, we can all use another paid holiday, this one celebrating the
mathematically challenged (i.e., most of the) humans. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Added on May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2013 </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">(So I won’t have to
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This reverse engineering research, if intelligently done, can’t
but spectacularly advance our knowledge. There’s an <b><span style="background: yellow; color: #4f6228;">infinite</span></b> set of numbers,
DNA-wise, that make sense, and this is not some hypothesis or theory, but a
FACT: just take into account the trillion of trillion of … trillion of life
forms/living entities in the history of this planet, AND the ones that come to
life every second. And counting …</div>
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Common sense also tells us that, at least within our
universe, there’s an even <b><span style="color: red;">larger infinite</span></b> of numbers that would lead
nowhere, life/intelligence-wise. </div>
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So where do we start? (A) Choose the lottery numbers for the
last 30 years and see what, if anything, comes up? (B) Starting from a dubious
(to say the least) <span style="color: #741b47;"><b><u>premise</u></b>*</span> like in<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/"><span style="color: blue;">this
story</span></a></span> (and, hey, their research got funded!)? Or </div>
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(C) Looking for some particularly intriguing AND FUNDAMENTAL
numbers? Remember, we’re trying to create life, the more intelligent, the
better. The Fibonacci series,
so much associated with life, should also be taken into account.</div>
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And speaking about life we can’t but remember the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe"> <span style="color: blue;">fine-tuning of the
universe</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span>issue. Plenty of glorious fundamental constants (although <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionless_physical_constant"><span style="color: blue;">not all of
them</span></a> have enough digits for us to play with). But the transcendental
numbers have all the digits we need and then some. </div>
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OK now, we cannot – as of right now -- process all the π’s
digits (or any infinite display of digits, for that matter) to achieve the
absolute knowledge, but if we can process enough numbers, for now, to <span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">create (A) the best ever guinea pig (I imagine a computer
model, not some sort of entity to torture) for medical/lab research and/or (B)
some cheap and abundant alternative energy and/or (C) detection and cure for
any disease, and/or…. (N) and so on, that’d clearly be fantastic steps forward.</span></div>
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In my opinion if we could create an intelligent
machine/entity able to create a smarter machine/entity we’ll be on our (asymptotically)
way towards absolute knowledge. So how about we start with π …</div>
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… Although if I had the funding, the team and a state of the
art lab I would check “n” fundamental numbers in parallel and constantly
compare the results. I’d also check – within the resources and common sense -- if
any mixing would lead somewhere. Remember: There are<b><span style="color: #4f6228; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">infinite</span></span></b>
combinations of numbers that DO lead somewhere, but we have to intelligently
design a research method to improve the probability of hitting <i>this</i> <b><span style="background: yellow; color: #4f6228;">infinite</span></b>, rather than the <b><span style="color: red;">larger infinite</span></b>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">* Bottom line: I’m sure that my proposal is based on a by far more
solid <b><u>premise</u></b> than the Moore’s Law: The fundamental constants/numbers are here,
to rule our universe, for more than one reason (or, should I say, for ALL the
reasons that, so far, we’ve been too blind, or inept, to figure out?)</span></div>
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