Verses for my Maggie (2003-2022)

To my Maggie (2003-2022)

Pe o strada lungă scurtă
Maggie se ducea venind
Într-o tăcere profundă
Cu mare atenție moțăind.
În umbra unui felinar
O auzeam ușor torcând
Strecurată într-un sertar
Neexistând,
Existând.

Roua diminetii - Morning dew

The Search for Randomness | Jean Bourgain

 

Fragmentarium Carmen - to die poetically, avatars dialogue

 

Honors Day 2023 at ONU

 

Announcing the Mathematics Program awards at Honors Day 2023 at Ohio Northern University.

Carmen - dupa 8 ani

Dupa 8 ani. In vara lui 2013 am avut ocazia sa petrec suficient de mult timp, in Ploiesti, in discutii (inedite) cu sora mea Carmen, ca sa imi dea (after the fact) un sentiment de "closure". 

A fost o persoana paradoxala. Complicata. Pe facebook avea 5 personas, cu care ocazional purta polemici (ca dialog intre centre diverse din interiorul ei).

A avut parte de tragism in exces (partial self-inflicted, partial datorat contextului/sansei - in pofida ideilor "pozitive" ce le enunta periodic ca sa-si dea curaj), insa a biruit fortele ce o trageau in jos (sau in directii ce nu erau potrivite cu firea ei intima) printr-o abundenta de creativitate a spiritului sau estetic.

Viata ei = estetica, intr-un cuvint.

The quintuple - the personas of Carmen

There were four more personas of Carmen:

• Ravi Chandrashekar 
• Rajiv Singh 
• Piotr Gift
• Manolo Lasswell

She was in fact every one of them.

 

Carmen a fost fiecare din acestia. Fiecare dintre ei era ea. 

 

She and them - the quintuple - were her immediate society.

 

Given the circumstances of her life, this multiplication (leading to situations in which she polemicized with herself) could be seen as sad, or could be seen as an existential literary plot-play. 

 

One does not exclude the other, though.

Cosmology: mass distribution in the universe

Interesting facts about the average distribution of matter in the universe can be found in the DISCOVER paper Taking the Measure of Nothing in the Universe (Corey S Powell, Feb 1 2017). 

But very few of that mass is ordinary matter. Indeed, in the cited paper we read:

If you average out the entire cosmos, there is a total mass density of 9.9 x 10^-30 grams per cubic centimeter, which is equivalent to 5.9 protons per cubic meter. Note that I was describing mass density, however, not particle density. According to the latest data from the Planck satellite, only 4.8 percent of that density consists of ordinary matter, mostly hydrogen nuclei (protons). On average, then, there is 0.3 atoms per cubic meter of space.

Picture - Hubble Ultra Deep Field - from Wikipedia

David Chalmers - Is the 'Soul' Immortal?

 

 

"Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life." ~ David Chalmers

Toma Caragiu (my cousin once removed) and Mircea Diaconu - The Fable (English Subtitles)

From the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius

 

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."

~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Memo 1

Memo sent to myself a long time ago:

"all fabrications shall pass: possessions, fame, body, beauty, enjoyment, soul. In sobriety, work out your goal". 

I will have to meet again the sender.