love nonsenselovenonsen a photon, sturgeons law, and the size of everythingaphot onstu theres this video of the solar system where you travel away from the sun a t the speed of light, like a photon. after three minutes this photon reaches the first planet, mercury, which looks like a small marble. it takes more than eigh t minutes to reach earth. it goes on and on for minutes though empty space, pass ing a little ball every now and then. alphonse swinehart took a few liberties wh ile creating this video. first of all, there is no sound in spacewhich can be em ulated by switching off the sound of your device. but more importantly, all plan ets in our solar system seem to be perfectly aligned. which in reality they are not. which made me realise that almost every photon that leaves the sun will nev er meet anything at all. i had to think of this video while i was watching the u niversal slide show in the image section on the incredible library of babel. the library of babel contains all texts that have ever been written, and all texts that will ever be written. it also contains all pictures that have ever been cre ated, all pictures that will ever be created, and even all pictures that have ne ver been taken every portrait of every person who has ever lived is in there som ewhere. the universal slide show shows all of the images, one at a time. ive bee n watching the slide show for quite a while, and so far, all of the images look similar an image of random noise. this made me wonder. what are the chances of h itting an image of something that can be recognised would it be a similar change as a photon traveling from the sun passing by something in the solar system thi s made me think of the ultimate conclusion of sturgeons law. sturgeons law state s that of everything is crap. you could apply sturgeons law to the remaining , a nd conclude that of the things that arent crap, turn out to be crap after all. a nd so on, ad infinitum. when you replace crap with emptiness, you have the chang es of a photon passing a rock very close to zero, but it happens. and if you rep lace crap with noise you have the chances of seeing a recognisable image on the universal slide show, or finding a readable text in the library. the universe is filled with countless stars, and filled with even more planets and other stuff. but the chances of a photon ever hitting one are almost zero. the library is fi lled with incredible amounts of readable stuff, and almost unimaginable amounts of recognisable images, yet the chances of stumbling upon one are almost zero. a nd then i read that the library of babel is bigger than the universe. vasilis au gust th, twitter share your micturations click here to cancel reply. name email url previous articleall the books ever, for free uselessness apology attention t hanks rss nonsense art design internets japan law logorrhoea nonsense religion s pare time useful useless . its true wordpress thinks that the items in a sidebar form an unordered list sure it is, just like a paragraph is a list of words and an html page is a list of tags. logorrhoea vasilis as long as the library of ba bel exists, i... vasilis it gets even better. all the possible daily... vasilis
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