{"id":9,"date":"2014-07-30T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2014-07-30T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T20:58:19","slug":"mathematics-in-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics in Sci-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reading Orson Scott Card\u2019s <em>Xenocide<\/em>, a book full of philosophy\/religion, ethics, and many other cool deep thoughts.\u00a0 Grego, the physicist, and his brother, Olhado, are in a prison cell working on a theory for FTL.\u00a0 Their sister, Valentine, enters to find Grego laying on a bed with his feet up on the wall, listening to music.\u00a0 Although it seems that this theory will involve \u201cwishing makes it so\u201d, I liked the following less \u201cfantastic\u201d line.<br \/>\n\u201cGrego\u2019s doing math in his head right now,\u201d said Olhado, \u201cso he\u2019s functionally dead.\u201d<br \/>\nThe multiple meanings are intriguing.\u00a0 Grego is producing no output?\u00a0 And receiving no input variables either.\u00a0 Yet, live functions must be wriggling through his consciousness.\u00a0 Or does Grego\u2019s math not involve functions at all, since they may involve a \u201cwish\u201d predicate?\u00a0 Does thinking mathematics make you non-functioning?<br \/>\nWhen Grego returns to \u201cfunctional life\u201d he goes on to describe \u201cunreal realspace\u201d, and the outside of the infinite universe.\u00a0 And off we go into the ectometaverse without seeing the multiverse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m reading Orson Scott Card\u2019s Xenocide, a book full of philosophy\/religion, ethics, and many other cool deep thoughts.\u00a0 Grego, the physicist, and his brother, Olhado, are in a prison cell working on a theory for FTL.\u00a0 Their sister, Valentine, enters to find Grego laying on a bed with his feet up on the wall, listening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}