Calculus: 1000 Mile Dimension Sans Thickness

[oahz]

"That which has no thickness cannot be piled up; yet it is a thousand mile in dimension."

 

[DiracPool]

"That which has no thickness cannot be piled up; yet it is a thousand mile in dimension."

Is that your genius there or are you quoting someone else, oahz?

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

From nothing arises that which we most seek, yet from everything comes our deepest despairs of infinite magnitude.

This is calculus.

 

[DiracPool]

I don't know, oahz, you can pile up a limit. I can take a few dx's and add them together. Do they have a thickness? Technically, yes. But I can add an infinite amount of them and get a very finite and, if I want, a very small volume. So what does that mean?

 

[oahz]

Is that your genius there or are you quoting someone else, oahz?

quoting someone else

 

[micromass]

"That which has no thickness cannot be piled up; yet it is a thousand mile in dimension."

True, but remember: "Only He who draws a line without thickness or breadth is capable of seeing the glory of the manifold kingdom"

 

[micromass]

From nothing arises that which we most seek, yet from everything comes our deepest despairs of infinite magnitude.

It is not money that you desire, but the capability of conquering the infinite.

 

[Office_Shredder]

"x squared over two plus a constant"

Now that's calculus

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

It is not money that you desire, but the capability of conquering the infinite.

Ah, this is the purest essence of what lies within calculus. If only more were keen towards this philosophy as we are.

 

[micromass]

Ah, this is the purest essence of what lies within calculus. If only more were keen towards this philosophy as we are.

Philosophy for the masses is like gold for the pigs.

 

[DiracPool]

Philosophy for the masses is like gold for the pigs.

Is that some derivative aphorism of "throwing pearls before swine?"

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Philosophy for the masses is like gold for the pigs.

Yet the accumulation of gold upon pigs has turned swine into men.

And calculus.

 

[micromass]

Yet the accumulation of gold upon pigs has turned swine into men.

And calculus.

Alas, he is but a man who throws diamonds in the infinite seas of wisdom. He never realized that the waters are made of vengeance and destruction.

 

[Solkar]

From nothing arises that which we most seek, yet from everything comes our deepest despairs of infinite magnitude.

The Vulcan Science Directorate has defined this as true.

And, may I add - as a future relative of mine once will have learned again after having his Katra risen from beyond:

Nothing unreal exists.

Live long and prosper, Earthlings!

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Alas, he is but a man who throws diamonds in the infinite seas of wisdom. He never realized that the waters are made of vengeance and destruction.

Yet the man who succumbs to the ever lustful embrace of those vengeful waters and drowns within its depths also becomes the wisest of us all.

 

[Solkar]

Earthlings!
Ye shalt also not forget what Marlowe said:

Dead men don't wear plaid.

(Still no idea what that means, but never mind...)

 

[micromass]

Yet the man who succumbs to the ever lustful embrace of those vengeful waters and drowns within its depths also becomes the wisest of us all.

No words spoken were ever wiser than the foolish utterings of a young soldier dying in the war of love. It is only you, my friend, who suffers through the eternal fate of damnation and despair.

 

[Curious3141]

It is not money that you desire, but the capability of conquering the infinite.

James Stewart might disagree.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

No words spoken were ever wiser than the foolish utterings of a young soldier dying in the war of love. It is only you, my friend, who suffers through the eternal fate of damnation and despair.

But much as darkness cannot exist without the gleaning light of eternity, similarly would we be lost without the infinite contrast of ignorance and wisdom.

 

[DiracPool]

How did this thread turn into some wannabe poetry slam?

 

[micromass]

How did this thread turn into some wannabe poetry slam?

From the OP...

 

[DiracPool]

From the OP...

Well, I think the OP fell on his own sword a while back...

 

[Solkar]

How did this thread turn into some wannabe poetry slam?

It's a quantum phenomenon:

[ontopic_here, sense] >= ℏ/2

 

[WannabeNewton]

There's about as much calculus in this thread as there is in all of quantum mechanics.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

How did this thread turn into some wannabe poetry slam?

The Pool, of Dirac
It swarms full of doubt
Yet I shall reach my epoch
While you fall victim to drought

"Wannabe," that's me?
I'm the purest form
Of what we call poetry
In no terms, am I the norm

 

[DiracPool]

The Pool, of Dirac
It swarms full of doubt
Yet I shall reach my epoch
While you fall victim to drought

"Wannabe," that's me?
I'm the purest form
Of what we call poetry
In no terms, am I the norm

Lol. I'm sure there's a compliment in there somewhere.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Lol. I'm sure there's a compliment in there somewhere.

Of course

 

[FlexGunship]

is this calculus?

THIS IS SPARTA!

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[AnTiFreeze3]