Design Science, Round Houses, and Innovation

BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE

When we look at the beauty that nature has designed into its creatures over many hundred millions of years, we have to wonder at the relative ugliness that man has designed into the majority of modern habitats for the ordinary person.

People deserve an attractive habitat that gives a positive force to their living. What tends to happen is a separation of quality of habitat such that your higher income people live in areas separated away from those of more modest means. This results in a general habitat for the community that is spotty. It's really nice in some areas and really ugly in others.

I think nature, which has had a head start on human logic by many million years, is trying to tell us something. The first thing nature tells us is that rectangles are not as good in designing habitats as spheres and rounded shapes. If we examine the work of honey bees we see that even they adapted the straight line and improved on the rectangle with shapes that are six sided. Are we less intelligent than the honey bee? Nature shows us many things about drainage and water proofing, hydrolysis and energy absorption from the sun. All these technologies of nature can be adapted by man to improve human habitats.

Buckminster Fuller the inventer and innovator developed the theoretical base for a new science, which he dubbed design science. Design science is based on mathematics that goes beyond the boringly familiar geometries of rectangles. Jay Kappraff, the mathematician rediscovered design science for himself and then suddenly became aware of Buckminster Fuller's work. By observing nature both individuals opened the way for many others to follow and based on their ideas, we can build architectural structures for all people that provide a more welcoming habitat.

What is Coincidence?

SUNSET AT KINCARDINE'S LIGHTHOUSE

I am prompted to write about coincidence because of three events that have happened to me during the past twenty-four hours. The first is a coincidence of a 'word,' and the second is a coincidence of an event in time. The two coincidences together contrive to create an event in my mind that tells me something meaningful.

Sometimes, we have things happen to us that as I put it 'should not happen.' That they happen to me fairly regularly makes me aware of them and causes me to think that there is something unseen going on around me, and that I should possibly accept that there are secret guardians at work, known only by what happens, or that I am missing something about how 'my universe' has been constructed for me to experience, or how my universe is constructed.

I wish that could dismiss the coincidences as deriving from known probabilities, but I can't, even though I am trained as a mathematical statistician. In statistical terms, I am seeking the generating function for events that are unrepeatable. I can never reconstruct the events. They will not happen again in this life cycle. They have a probability of almost zero.

I wish that I had such events to prompt me to gamble but I don't. There is no way that I can possibly benefit from the events other than this blog or by reading a meaning into the events that triggers behaviour that I would not initiate without the events.

My recourse is to re-examine the subject matter of coincidence. I would begin with the book 'The Roots of Coincidence, An Excursion Into Parapsychology' written by Arthur Koestler. Koestler focuses on the possibility of telepathy in the causation of coincidence. This could have contributed to one of my cases, one which occurred yesterday, and which involved a human being, but not to the one which occurred today. Its possible that I am missing something about how the world is constructed.

Let me describe the first coincidence and see what you think. I was in Stratford about two weeks ago, and arrived at the Home Hardware five minutes before closing returning from Orillia. During the five minutes, I picked a colour from about two hundred different colour cards and had the paint mixed. The name of the paint colour was Lily. I painted a bedroom with the paint and used it all up, but needed more for a second coat. I returned to the local Home Hardware, but I had forgotten to bring my colour card and there was no one serving at the paint desk in any event, so I left without paint. I selected a colour card of the colour that I thought that I needed.

Sunday, I returned to the Home Hardware, but in my town which is about 60 miles from the other Home Hardware store, with the correct colour card since I had chosen the wrong colour card the previous day. I had with me the lid of the paint can and it had the codes needed to identify the paint colour. Up to now everything seems pretty normal doesn't it. If you think you are clever tell me what you think the coincident is, based on the above information. I am sure that you cannot.

I handed the lid to a girl behind the paint counter. She was one who mixed up paint. She was one of two girls there and she volunteered to serve me. She went to the computer and entered the numbers, then came back to me and said smiling all the while that this was her colour. She shouted over to the others nearby that someone had named a paint colour after her name, which is Lily. She looked at me, and said, "My name is Lily." I was puzzled and then she explained that the name of the paint colour was 'Lily.' Out of about 200 colours, I had selected 'her' colour and had been served by her. She mixed the paint.

Thinking back on the coincidence, it still seems extraordinary. How many people do you know named 'Lily?' How many Lily's work in paint shops? It was a Sunday, and I could have got the paint on another day when she was not working. I had chosen the paint colour as a split second decision. I could not remember the colour exactly on the Saturday, when I intended to get the paint and forgot the paint tin lid and had lost the paint card. I did not recall the name of the colour of the paint until she told me.

I won't tell you about the other coincidence right now until the story has played out much further. There may be much to record!

Was the above a coincidence? What do you make of it?

Entropy in an Inside Out Wuh Lax World

A number of things trouble me about the standard or received model of cosmology. I do not claim to be a physicist, but merely an artist trying to figure out my universe. My problem is with the notion of entropy which according to the second law of thermodynamics says that chaos is always on the increase. The law of energy associated with entropy also says that energy is unidirectional with respect to time in that the arrow of time always goes in one direction. It means that information is lost as we experience entropy

Well, if we are exploding at every point of our being then I suppose that this motion is going in one direction, which is a form of outwards expansion. We see it in the very large by observing the the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Most of us don't see it in the very small where we ourselves are being blown apart. One has to ask why one rule should apply to very large entities and another to very small ones. Of course, my Wuh Lax answer is that what applies to very large entities also applies to very small ones. What does this have to do with entropy?

The entropy and temperature measured by me are a consequence of my accelerating motion. What am I accelerating relative to? I am accelerating relative to the speed of light, which in the Wuh Lax world is zero. I have no problem going faster than the speed of light because I twist as I accelerate. The twisting gives me forward motion as well as sideways motion. The two add up to a speed greater than the speed of light except to say that I cannot travel sideways as fast as I am exploding. As I twist, can I create information?

Obviously yes! While I am twisting, I can create information that is not random. I somehow twist out of the law of entropy by creating order out of chaos using my kinetic exploding energy. What I cannot do is explode any slower or slow down the acceleration in my rate of exploding.

I don't know if this makes any sense, but it seems to suggest that in a Wuh Lax universe, there is a different physics going on, a very different cosmological explanation for almost everything. This is the world inside out that one finds in the world of Wim and Wuh. My next task is to figure out what black holes are all about!