Its Chaos Theory time. No – not when everything goes awry – although given the situation in the world today that could well be true(-ish). I’m talking about the mathematical version of chaos – small changes in initial conditions make huge differences in outcomes – another subject that I have talked about often. Its most ‘famous’ instantiation is perhaps Lorenz’s “Butterfly Effect” – but as the title says we cannot blame the butterfly this time – or perhaps, more correctly, it is likely that no butterfly was involved – we cannot be sure.
Year: 2020
Every Little Thing They Do…
….is magic! The coronavirus pandemic has triggered two different posts – this being the first – which are not necessarily about the virus itself, but comment on some aspects of life that the current outbreak highlights rather well. We hear a lot these days about invisible illnesses and – whilst covid-19 is not always such, sometimes there are no symptoms and neither the person who is ill, nor their friends and relatives will have any idea that they are carrying and spreading the virus.
A Very Stable Genius
If ever there was a misnomer 🙄 – it really would be unbelievable if this were fiction. I haven’t yet finished reading this – but it is confirmation of all the worst fears about life inside the White House.
Democracy Is Great…
…but flawed! After writing my previous post I had a bit of a “lightbulb moment” regarding the democratic system. I am not saying for one minute that I have in any way solved the problem – but perhaps my lightbulb will shed a little luminance on it.
More Than Politics
Its almost a year since my last post – and slightly strange that the trigger should be (nearly) the same. There have been a number of things that, perhaps, could have been written about in that time – maybe a few that should have been – but my thoughts never got written down. This does not mean that there is only one thread going through my mind these days – although the fact that the previous post was on a very similar topic may make it look like that.
Welcome to Music
This set of posts started out as a daily post on Facebook during the “lockdown times” in 2020/21 – sharing pieces of music that had some sort of ‘connection’ for me. They are, of course, a bit difficult to find on FB after all this time so I decided to recreate them here – alongside the many comments that were made on the original posts. Now that they have all been ported across I have started to add some extra posts to expand the original selection.