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by Ian Beardsley

Dimensions: I would say in general they are a set tied together by a common ground, each element with a distinct quality from the other that together specify a series of concepts.















It is as if the five senses are the dimensionality of ourselves, and we exist in three dimensions, physically. Five and three are two consecutive fibonacci numbers, and their ratio is a good approximation to phi, the golden ratio (1.618...). Eight, the fibonacci number after five, is the octet truss, or stable brace... The next fibonacci number is thirteen, which is the twelve around one, or closest packing of equal radius spheres around one, which determines the most transformable shape, the vector equilibrium, or isotropic vector matrix. The consecutive ratios between fibonnacci numbers become closer and closer approximations to phi.



At some point something had to come into existence from nothing, uncaused, for ourselves, the planets, and the stars to be here, but the probability of that happening is zero percent. It is, infact, impossible.

Motion-- the idea that an object in motion existed at various positions for some time, however brief, would imply that it had stopped. Thus it cannot have existed at any position for any amount of time, yet we say what the position of something in motion is after a certain amount of time given its speed.







Writing, just as in music, is using your imagination to come up with a theme, and develop it fully and coherently.







Just as the smallest change in the right interval causes the greatest change in mood, so is it with cooking where there is a saturation point and less spice is more effective.