Space is kind of a analog computer for algebra

Since geometry is basically algebra and vice versa, if you draw some triangles and circles you are actually performing algebra and your paper is like it seems an analog computer for the algebra. Or maybe because all algebra is basically geometry with other notation maybe math is all geometry. I guess geometry is then the most basic thing.

In a sense every art piece is a algebraic calculation!?

Similar like an abacus is an analog computer for arithmetic.

And also like a planetarium is an analog computer for the planets.

Oldest planetarium in the world

Veritasium did a great video about it:

What is the golden ratio doing here?!

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Then the solutions are:

Source: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=xy%3Di%2C+x%5E2%2By%5E2%3D1

Just messing around with stuff. I basically combined a circle with a complex hyperbola. Maybe you can get a nice connection with and

Refracting rivers

If you want to show elevation on a map you can use contour lines. Like this:

Now I read in a calculus book the apt observation that a river will always cross perpendicular to these contour lines. This is because it always chooses the steepest descent.

Now I realise you could see rivers like light beam crossing these contour lines, with almost looking like refraction if you make it more clear like this:

If you now look at the fact that rivers carve out their paths, because of erosions their paths change. The rivers change the elevation and the elevation changes the path of the river. This is similar to that quote of wheeler.

This is a nice video about it; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3r-cG8Wic

How to predict coming pandemics

Maybe you can use mutation rate which is constant and the fact that a virus is continuously changing instead of big jumps discretely to predict pandemics.

Because the central problem is a gain of ability of an existing virus. They do not arise from nothing. Dangerous abilities are: ability to jump species, ability to induce extreme illness (e.g. COVID cytokine storm leading to ARDS) etcetera

The analogy is: The closer your drunk friend gets to a lamppost the more scared you get, and the more urgent you try to prevent it. If he’s just in the middle of the road you don’t care and just watch him.

You do the following steps:

1. Make exact genetic inventory of all current viruses in humans (also animals)
   1. I don’t know if this exceeds resources
2. Culture all of them in human cells. For example all current coronaviruses.
   1. Extremely dangerous
3. Increase the mutation rate in these viruses
   1. Also extremely dangerous
4. See at what point the virus becomes more dangerous, e.g. creates cytokine storm like sars-cov-2 or becomes more infectious/or gains a capability to jump species
5. Calculate at what time the outdoors virus will get this mutation the earliest

It basically utilizes the fact that a virus doesn’t instantaneously changes to something completely different but randomly walks there. (I realised later that it obviously can do that, with genetic shift) Obviously these steps are really complicated, but maybe you can do them all by computer if you can predict the properties of the proteins developed and the interactions with human cells. That would be the safest, but I don’t know if this is actually possible. Or see how the protein changes by actually making it and see how it folds and stuff.

My central point is that a mutating virus looks like a random walk through “genetic space”.

Random walk

Maybe you can find a way to incorpate genetic shift.

Interesting video about resonances and spilling water out of cup

Why is symmetry such a fundamental building block of mother nature

Because it minimizes prior assumption about nature. And it maximizes the concept of entropy.

So in a sense symmetry is statistical.

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