Interesting Concept About World Lines and Attractor Fields

If you have seen this anime called "Steins;Gate", then I suppose you won't be unfamiliar with these two terms, World Lines and Attractor Fields.

Even though it may be an anime, what's interesting about it is that it brings up a very good analogy of how the world and time as a whole can be perceived.

If we likened the state of reality as we perceive now as a single "World Line" (fibre making up the thread/string/yarn) and minute variances to be multiples of such world lines within a single "Attractor Field" (the thread/string/yarn itself), then we can extend it even further to show multiple threads/strings/yarns grouped together as a cluster of different attractor fields and so on and so forth. (Just as it was explained in the anime.)

Furthermore, within the anime, there was also something mentioned called the "World Line Convergence" phenomenon which causes multiple world lines within the same "Attractor Field" to converge to the same result.

To interpret it to our individual terms, in another way, it can also be related to as the occurrence of a singular (significant) event at a "personal" scale in our lives. And depending on the decision made during that event, may affect the people around us and as a result cause a switch into a different world line, but within the same attractor field.

On the macro level, large-scaled/uncontrollable events like floods, epidemics, earthquakes, tsunamis and wars, these can then be treated as some sort of convergence between the various attractor fields. From there, the decisions made by a person or multiple persons may then be the trigger to shift things into different attractor fields...thereby trickling into different world lines within each of the possible attractor fields.

Fascinating right? How the acts/decisions that we make is the eventual guide that leads us to our possible futures...like a train moving on a railway track and each shift in the track represents a decision made that results in the train arriving at different stations and different people leave and board the train at this station.

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Looking back at your own past, haven't you had any major event(s) in your life in which you could have felt that...had you made a different decision then, it might have possibly thrown you into an entirely different world?

- BuLaDiFu -

I'm Glad That I Had Chosen To Be A Tortoise

You know how its common practice to select in your mind a "rival" of some sort and then try to observe them and find out the reason behind their success?

Well...when I initially started trying to blog, I somewhat did the same thing and chose a fellow blogspot blogger (who was also in a similar niche) who seemed particularly successful judging by his high alexa ranking.

However, after surfing through his blog for a while, I soon realised that even though he was speedy enough to continuously churn out posts at a very fast pace and got, in my opinion, a lot of traffic, the posts that he published apparently came from guides posted by other people in the respective official forums of those games.

And since it didn't quite sit right with me to just plainly use other people's posts without adding something to it from my part (with or without their permissions), I decided against emulating it and stuck to whatever I am doing now.

So now after a year or two since I've started, I was curious about how he did and tried to google for his blog again...which to my surprise, discovered that his blog was gone.

From what remains I could gather from the web, I realised that the blog was tagged as something called a spam host or something and thus Google/Blogspot decided to delete it. So it went "Poof" just like that.

Though shocking to me, one thing I've learnt from this is:

In life, there will be times when your tempted to take the shortcut. And often, these shortcuts will look very attractive and appealing. However, take them you should not, my friend. Tread well and know that 'tis often better to do it the hard way, sweat and toil, then to try and take the easy way out.

- BuLaDiFu -

Small Achievement, Big Satisfaction

Finally!!! After slogging away and playing around with the blog's template, I've finally managed to remove that "accursed" huge gaping space which was created as a result of the right-sidebar's "Archive" becoming too long (and thus pushes everything in the footer downwards).

Well...though I'm pretty sure the more professional bloggers would have settled this in a jiffy, but considering that I have no background in blog templates and css and furthermore that this template was a free one that I've downloaded off the internet...so you can imagine how horrible and foreign the whole coding in the template is to me, right?

Anyway, I think I deserve a pat on the back don't you think? XD

- BuLaDiFu -

Man Is Such A Weird Thing

Man is such a weird thing, don't you think so?
Questioning one's existence and what one is doing
Having doubts and fears about the path one's treading

And yet...

Knowing that there is at least something
That one did while doing what one is doing
That is being supported, acknowledged or even appreciated by someone
Is enough to fill one with courage to move on, to press forward and continue

- BuLaDiFu -

Claude Debussy's 151st Birthday

Today, Google celebrates the 151st birthday of Achille-Claude Debussy, a prominent French composer who played a vital role in the Western music's transition to the modern era, with a motion picture clip of a riverside scenery and one of his most popular piece, Clair de Lune, playing in the background.

Happy Chinese Valentine's Day 2013

Now here's an interactive app doodle made by Google to celebrate a Chinese festival called Qixi Festival.

The origins of this celebration, which falls on the seventh day of the 7th lunar month, is from a mythical folktale about two lovers, the cowherd and weaver girl, whose love was not meant to be and were banished to opposite sides of the Universe only to meet once a year via a bridge formed by a flock of magpies.

Erwin Schrödinger's 126th Birthday

Today's Google doodle features two drawings of presumably the same cat, alive and well coming out from one side of a box and being in spirit form or rather dead flying out from the other side of the box. And if we top this up with the scribbling of what seems to be some mathematical equation into the doodle, then there can be only one thing that comes into mind...

Yup, the infamously "cruel" (I'm joking here of course) thought experiment of Erwin Schrödinger (Schrödinger's cat).

So needless to say, this doodle is made to celebrate the 126th birthday of Erwin Schrödinger, a world renown Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which ultimately formed the basis of wave mechanics.

But despite being only largely known for his contributions in the quantum field, he does have many works in various other fields of physics, in philosophy and in theoretical biology as well, so he's quite the heck of a guy in my opinion.

Rosalind Franklin's 93rd Birthday

Today's Google spotlight features the doodle of a famous British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer, Rosalind Elsie Franklin. She was most noted for her contributions into our understanding of the fine molecular structures of coal, graphite, DNA, RNA and viruses.

Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th Birthday

The doodle found on Google's homepage today celebrates the 407th birthday of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, a Dutch painter and etcher who was generally considered to be an important figure in the European art and Dutch history. However, despite being hailed as such, it seems that his life was sort of a downhill ride whereby the height of his success was during his youthful days and things just went downwards ever since.

Excuses

Excuses...
It is most probably the worst ever invention made by Man
Made to be used as a shield to defend or justify one's fault or offense
An attempt to lessen the blame attached to the deed

And although it may sometimes be inevitable that some things occur
That doesn't make the fact that it did happen go away

To always be hiding behind the back of an Excuse
Or to strive and not live a life full of Excuses

Knowing that I might forget about it someday
And so I'm leaving it here for just in case

That one day I might forget
Perhaps even that is just an Excuse

- BuLaDiFu -

Li Shizhen's 495th Birthday

Today is the 495th birthday of Li Shizhen, reputed to be one of the greatest Chinese doctors in history.

His most important contribution was in writing the Compendium of Materia Medica which he took 27 years to complete. In this medical text features 1,892 entries, detailing more than 1,800 drugs or items believed to have medicinal properties (like plants, animals and minerals), 1,100 illustrations and 11,000 prescriptions.

Although not all of its information is scientifically correct (some have been proven to be erroneous due to the contemporary limited scientific and technical knowledge of those times), it still remains as a premier reference work for herbal medicines, has been translated into more than 20 languages and contains information valuable to a wide variety of subjects such as botany, zoology, mineralogy and metallurgy.

2013 Tour de France

Following the 2013 Tour de France that is happening from 29th June 2013 to 21st July 2013, Google has made the above doodle to commemorate it (as it will be the 100th one).

Anyway, the Tour de France, is an annual multiple stage bicycle race that is held primarily in France but may occasionally pass through nearby countries.

With the first ever race being initially organized (in 1903) to increase the paper sales for the magazine L'Auto, its pretty amazing in my opinion that it has lasted for over a century (and I'm sure there will be many more to come).

Antoni Gaudi's 161st Birthday

Today's Google doodle celebrates the 161st birthday of Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, a Spanish architect who was skilled in a good series of crafts such as ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and carpentry. But not only that, he was most noted for his talent in integrating all that he had learnt into his architectural works, eventually earning him the nickname of "God's Architect" as well as being beatified.

Father's Day 2013

Celebrating Father's Day 2013, Google especially created this slots-like mix-n-match doodle, matching various sorts of male cartoonish heads, bodies and legs to create interesting-looking fathers.

Happy Dragon Boat Festival 2013

Today we have Google's own version of a dragon boat to celebrate a Chinese traditional festival, called DuanWu Jie (Duanwu Festival).

Though there are a couple of folk traditions and myths with their own interpretation to the origins of this festival, the most predominant one would be that of Qu Yuan who drowned himself in a river and people throwing rice dumplings (zongzi) into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat his body.

Maurice Sendak's 85th Birthday

Today, the doodle shown on Google's homepage features an animated clip of creatures, characters and settings. Apparently, these beings and scenes were first given their forms and lives through the hands of a talented American illustrator and writer of children's books, Maurice Bernard Sendak.

Words

You know the old saying...

Sticks and stones will break my bones
But words will never harm me.

couldn't be further from the truth.

In fact, words DO hurt. Especially if they come from your closest. But even if they do not, the mere saying it a couple of times in front of you would start to make you wonder. Say it a couple of more times or from more people and it will make you question yourself. Do it once too many and even the most confident person in the world would falter.

That...is the power of words.

- BuLaDiFu -

PS: Moral of the story...be mindful of what you say. For it isn't without its consequences.

Mother's Day 2013

On this second Sunday of May 2013, in honor of all mothers around the world, Google has made this interesting app doodle. Apparently, the contraption featured in this app seems to be some sort of Mother's Day Giftcreatinator.

At each of the various stages in the gift-making process, the user has the freedom to choose one of the three available options to input into the device. And at the end of it all, a special Mother's Day card would pop out depending on the user's prior inputs. Interesting, ain't it?

Saul Bass' 93rd Birthday

On today's Google homepage features a short Youtube video made to commemorate Saul Bass, an American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters and corporate logos.

Amongst his most prominent works include the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm (Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm), the opening-credits sequence in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, designing of AT&T's "bell" logo in 1969 and "globe" logo in 1983, Continental Airlines' 1968 "jetstream" logo as well as United Airlines' 1974 "tulip" logo.

Malaysia GE-13

Today's Google doodle is a very special one drawn to commemorate Malaysia's GE-13. I believe most of us woke up early in the morning and went to line up at the polling stations at least 30 minutes before it had started. And now that we had done our part...the rest is up for the nation to speak for itself (in a matter of hours).

Labour Day 2013

The 2013 Labour Day doodle shows a simple drawing depicting an office worker, an orchardist, a paint worker and a construction worker all lumped together into one picture. To me, although it looks simpler, it does "paint" a more encompassing scene in contrast to the 2012's.

So compared to the 2012 Labour Day doodle, which do you like better?

Ella Fitzgerald's 96th Birthday

Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz vocalist with an incredible vocal range. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing (as according to Wikipedia).

Earth Day 2013

Earth Day 2013's doodle features an interactive app that takes you through the seasons of nature...which in my opinion is far more interesting than the static floral one shown on Earth Day 2012.

Leonhard Euler's 306th Birthday

Leonhard Euler, born on the 15th April 1707, was a Swiss mathematician and physicist who made many important discoveries which were vital in the fields of mathematics and physics. His notable works include the introduction of modern mathematical terminology and notation, as well as his contributions in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics and astronomy.

Maria Sibylla Merian's 366th Birthday

Today's Google doodle features detailed illustrations of some insects, caterpillars, butterflies and oddly enough, an iguana or some lizard-like entity as well.

It is apparently created to celebrate the 366th birthday of a German naturalist and scientific illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian. She was known for her detailed observations and documentation of butterfly metamorphosis.

Ain't no Multiple Choice Question

Is it because life ain't no multiple choice question
that we don't know what to do with our lives?

Is it because life has no paths A, B and C
that we don't know which way to go is correct?

To be always focused on the negative aspects
and dare not press forward...

Or to be overly positive
and fail to see the pitfall in front of you?

Where do we go from here
and how do we balance ourselves?

- BuLaDiFu -

Douglas Adams' 61st Birthday

Today's Google doodle is actually dedicated to Douglas Adams, an English writer who is best known for writing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

International Women's Day 2013

Today's doodle features cartoonish faces representing women from all sorts of countries, races and religions. This doodle serves to mark the "International Women's Day" that happens on the 8th of March every year.

Miriam Makeba's 81st Birthday

Miriam Makeba, a.k.a Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist. She was known for popularizing African music in the U.S. and around the world as well as her campaigning efforts against racial segregation in South Africa.

Nicolaus Copernicus' 540th Birthday

Today's Google doodle celebrates the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a theory that is considered a major event in the history of science...at a time when not much was known about space and way before the era of spacecrafts and satellites.

Asteroid 2012 DA14's Near Miss

Didn't realized that such a thing will be occurring until I found this gif doodle appearing on Google's homepage.

Apparently, on 23rd February 2012, a near-Earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of 50 meters (160 ft) and an estimated mass of 190,000 metric tons was discovered and named "2012 DA₁₄".

And calculations were made showing that this asteroid would pass by Earth just 27,700 km from its surface...Today on the 15th February 2013. What's more, this is probably the closest approach known for an object (of this size) to fly-by Earth.

Happy Valentine's Day 2013 & 154th Birthday to George Ferris

Today, Google is celebrating the 154th birthday of George Ferris (the inventor of the "Ferris Wheel") and Valentine's Day 2013 since they both happen to fall upon the same date.

To do this, they've designed and implemented a brilliant doodle that incorporates both the invention and a "machine" that randomly matches up various animals together, before finally depicting how those matched up animals spent their Valentine's Day.

Happy Chinese New Year 2013

Today, Google celebrates Chinese New Year 2013 with a classic "Snake" casual video game that originated during the late 1970s in arcades. However, it appears that the game's rules of dying upon hitting the boundaries of the play area and one's own tail does not apply. Google's version only ends when the time runs out.

Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday

In today's Google doodle spotlight is Mary Leakey, a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized skull of an extinct ape believed to be ancestors of humans.

Frank Zamboni's 112th Birthday

Today, Google celebrates the 112th birthday of Frank Zamboni (inventor of the modern ice resurfacer) with a simple interactive game that puts you in the seat of an ice resurfacer and tasked with the job of cleaning and smoothing the surface of ice rinks.