NP: Syria, but not too serious, part 9

[jody2.718]

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On Friday, November 22, 2019 8:57 AM, peterthooper at juno.com <peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:

> There was a Jody back in 2005 who related Jackie Gleason at the ballgame in DeLillo’s Underworld with Euler’s equation.

-That jody is still there but you can only reach him via wormhole. If I would venture a guess, I'd bet he say that Euler's equation is also a metaphor. Was it 2005? I thought it was earlier.


> Now this with the superposition, I just listened to an mit ocw lecture about that. The guy abstracted the properties to color and hardness, which I think are actually position and velocity?

-Didn't see/hear the lecture

> But I didn’t do the problem set, yet. I can listen to lectures till the cows come home, but problem sets? need a less cluttered desk, or something.
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> Applied to Putin and Trump, is it that uncertainty comes into play if you try to get info about one by watching the other, or are we saying there is a stream of particles in the polity of which Putin represents position and Trump represents vector?

-All meant in jest, of course, but to extend the metaphor, one could assume that T&P became entangled in a motel room in Moscow some time during that Ms. Universe contest. But a more realistic metaphor suggests that the Kompromat is just Trump's realization that Russia swung the election and may not, without appropriate concessions, do it again, so he's been casting about for another scheme to win the next one- but he got caught.

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> I recognized that there is a metaphor, so, good on me for that. But I reverted back to uncertainty when thinking about superposition, because I understand uncertainty a little less vaguely.


-I love that: "I understand uncertainty a little less vaguely."! Reminds me of the old saw- Information travels at the speed of light, but noise...instantaneous.


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> ... if you wanted to clarify the terms etc (tenor, bass, alto, soprano) of the metaphor, I certainly wouldn’t object. Even if you used a high Oxonian blither.


- Clarification might be like pinning the wings of the butterfly. Use The Force, Peter.






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> Subject: NP: Syria, but not too serious, part 9
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:56:58 +0000
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> David:
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> "All Trump's roads lead to Putin."
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> T&P are entangled. T presents a superpostion of posturings which collapse into the political expediency of the moment, providing some indication of P's "mood." But understanding P's true nature by measuring T's position requires an error correction algorithm of some sort. The lookingglass is exquisitely sensitive and prone to cracking. P's intentions may have already collapsed into the hot bath of oligarchical waters in which he finds himself. In other words, metaphors are only metaphors, but metaphors are all we have to make sense of the world- that, and Fortune Cookies.
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