Mathematics Nation
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(Mathematics Nation, 01/16/06)
-- Left-brain people call them "kooks." But they are the conspiracy
theorists, fond of puzzles and intersecting with Mathematics Nation.
The conspiracy stuff, as such, has its own mathematics. Over
time, recurring patterns are seen. For example, a news cycle of
overstimulation followed by understimulation is like recurrent waves.
Occasionally, a shock impact occurs and the public goes into
hyper-stimulation. This happened on September 11, 2001, for example.
There are also the smiley-face days, when earth-shaking
events occur but the mainstream news pretends nothing much is
happening. It does not fit into the pre-arranged news cycle! Knowing
"something is up," in extreme anxiety most citizens paste on
smiley-face
masks. Everything is "wonderful" is the motif.
News cycles are quantifiable and can be charted. Friday is
usually news overstimulation, followed by Saturday understimulation. To
compensate for the sensory deprivation, the public goes shopping.
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It had begun to be seen how the conspiracy theories were
mathematical puzzles. Today, this inkling was accentuated by the latest
Business Week cover
story: Math
Will Rock Your World
(Jan. 23, 2006)
"How do you convert written words into math?" wonders Business Week. A geometric solid
called the polytope
is envisioned. It has an almost infinite number of edges, and each edge
contains a scrap of information. These edges are linked in an ultra
exponentiation of the relational database. This method of finding
patterns in seemingly random events is sometimes called stochastic analysis.
There is the concept of the Union and the Intersection. Conspiracy Nation has unavoidably
intersected with politics at times, yet has resisted any push toward
mathematical Union. Conspiracy Nation
intersected with
politics, yet it was not politics -- it was applied mathematics. Now,
with patterns becoming increasingly evident to this editor, foreseen is
a mathematicization of the various conspiracy data.
This mathematicization of the conspiracy data will take time.
Gradually, the various conspiracy reports may be pared down,
streamlined into the bare bones language of math.
Acknowledgement in this area is given to authors Kenn Thomas and the
late Jim Keith. In their book, The Octopus, was described
the tracking of a Soviet submarine through the Icelandic Sea.
Sophisticated mathematics encoded into a computer program called PROMIS
enabled the U.S. not only to follow the sub's path, but to even
extrapolate its next move.
It is all about discerning
patterns. The Business Week
article already cited mentions how "sleuths have relied for centuries
on the human brain to pick through strands of disparate evidence and to
find patterns. Sherlock Holmes sometimes looked for them in plumes of
pipe smoke." One interesting novel connected Charles Babbage's
primitive "analytical engine" with an enhanced Sherlock Holmes. By
mathematicizing the elements, now-powerful computers can be employed to
preliminarily solve conspiracy-related riddles.
One recent aspect of the math-language nexus is discerned by Rush
Limbaugh. Normally, "Rush Limbaugh" is a
loaded word. He notices invention of a new language term,
"abortion rights" -- "abortion" being another loaded word. Conspiracy Nation would normally
fear delving into the ponderables of this. However by mathematicizing
Limbaugh's concept, the fear
factor involved disappears and it can be incorporated into a
wider pattern search.
Also mathematicizable is a quantization of meteorological and
astrological links. Meteorologists are notoriously inaccurate.
Astrologers are wedded to human behavior and have not noticed the
connection between meteorology
and astrology. On January 11th, Mark Lerner at the Yahoo general
horoscope noticed "a potent series of alignments that will occur from
Friday to Sunday." Lerner interpreted the future "meteor" behavior as a "Red Alert
Warning!" He foresaw (on Jan. 10) that "tantrum and shock waves may be
pervasive." And what indeed began on Friday? A new weather pattern here
in the Midwest and heading east.
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