Our familiar 3S+1T world, when Lorentz-boosted beyond c, undergoes a metric signature flip:
The three spatial dimensions swap their sign and become temporal
The one time dimension swaps and becomes the single spatial axis
-- our three spaces, seen from a superluminal frame.
@TheEconomist 'Looking at seven of humanity's greatest civilizations - ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere..."
How lambda calculus can shape a literary work:
1.Structure as reduction
2. Anonymous functions as characters
3. Self-application and recursion: Narratives could exploit self-application (a function applied to itself) and recursion to create loops, mirrors, or infinite regress
@TheNBABase All Playoff Rounds: The team entering the series fresh off a sweep is 20-4 against a team that just played a Game 7
The NBA Finals Only: In the context of the NBA Finals, in this exact scenario, the team coming off the sweep holds a much tighter 5-3 record.
🚨: You’re closer in size to the entire observable universe than to the smallest possible scale of reality—the Planck length—by roughly 400 million times.
Let that sink in.
New ESPN story: Ahead of what should be an awesome NBA Finals between the Knicks and Spurs, I asked a bunch of coaches, scouts and executives what they will be watching for in the league's championship round.
Here's what they told me:
https://t.co/MyviI0cvym
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This OECD study is likely to have an important effect on global trade discussions, but its worth noting that its measure of the extent of Chinese subsidies do not include two of the most important subsidies that drive the global competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing.
@IridentDefender@michaelxpettis@greg_ip "... every day another economist is converting ... more pro-trade war pieces coming out from traditionally neoliberal publications"
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WSJ: "Labor’s share of gross domestic income (conceptually similar to GDP) sank to 51%, the lowest since records began in 1947. Profits’ share climbed to 12.1%, the highest since 1950."
@greg_ip
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