Cliff Pickover

Increase your sense of wonder. (Author of 50 books & 800 patents. Yale Ph.D.) "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." ~NY Times

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Ask me anything.

I will be happy to answer some of your questions, and will try to reply to a portion of your questions below in the coming days.

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India Explained.

The epic chronicle of India, mapped across time. Which era of Indian history fascinates you the most? Take a scroll through thousands of years in this timeline chart. Source: https://t.co/Fd2eIvE9gc

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Perhaps advanced aliens don't explore galaxies. They explore equations, discovering entire universes that physical spacecraft could never reach.

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Mathematics.

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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A fascinating glimpse of evolving digital lifeforms in a neural primordial soup.

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👁️🍄the neural mycelia are in bloom🍄👁️

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Quantum Lincoln.

Made with a single wavy line.

By Tyler Foust, @TylerFoust13, Used with permission.

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Humans Explained.

Human migrations, state formations, and key events throughout the globe. Source: https://t.co/JO61SLr1wO

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A chlorophyll molecule is a molecular masterpiece: a bridge between quantum physics and life itself.

→ In your personal opinion, could a chlorophyll molecule be conscious?

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Mathematics: the endless landscape.

Triangle dreams.

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A photon is born on Earth and travels many light-years to the edge of the galaxy, where it dies. How much time has passed from the photon's birth to its death, from the point of view of the photon?

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Hinduism. Mathematics. India.

The Baudhāyana sūtras (Sanskrit: बौधायन) are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts and are one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE. Source: https://t.co/qZqAzuFYPW

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“Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and—to go a step further—our mathematicians do not know mathematics.”

~J. Robert Oppenheimer, “The Tree of Knowledge,” 1958

[Commenting on the explosion of knowledge and specialization in the mid-20th century. He meant that the scope of math had grown so large, complex, and specialized that thinkers and professional mathematicians could no longer understand the entirety of the field or its deep interconnections.]

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"Computers are the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."

~Steve Jobs
Quote: https://t.co/iVqon8UwEA
Image: https://t.co/f6tVXT94N7

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This is a funny meme. "Future AI Data Centers." Perhaps less Democrat vs Republican bickering.

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Mathematics. Symmetry. Transformation.

Fractal Dance.

By MisteryMyra, https://t.co/RDocChwXUZ

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Mathematics.

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Do all photons have a birth (a creation moment) and a death (when they no longer exist)?

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Wedding rings to encourage togetherness and oneness. Math.

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"Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = e^x , like a phoenix rising again from its own ashes, is its own derivative?"

~ Francois le Lionnais, Great Currents of Mathematical Thought

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Mathematics.

This math meme, or joke, is circulating widely on the Web, and might be funny to some.