30 links have been added on 7 ideas about #reality.
  1. Ahh, yes,. the idea of symmetry – changing something but keeping it the same. Not an obvious feature of the universe until you get curious. Great site about it here https://devdude.me/blog/physSymmetries

  2. Tegmark contradicts himself though – he opens eyes but doesn’t provide a definitive picture – and he doesn’t seem to see a problem with it. Just sayin’

  3. Seems like you can host 2 contradictory ideas in societies, in words and in your own mind. Its a problem, yet not an issue 🙂

  4. And sections of society have internal battles with reality – those early Sumerians that thought there was more to the heavens than just God – are weirdly similar to the conspiracy nuts who still think the same thing – despite all the knowledge now amassed.

  5. Blame Christians and Scientists, not Christ or God:

    The Devil – 2 / 3 = .666 (the sign of the Devil)
    Humans – Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
    Caesar – Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
    Math – 23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
    Bible – Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want…”
    Shakespeare – Shakespeare was born and died on April 23.
    December 23, 2012 – The date the Mayans believed the world will end.
    Unabomber – Wounded 23 people.
    Earth – The earth’s axis is off by 23.5 degrees.
    Atomic Bomb – The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8:15 (8+15=23).
    April 19 – April 19th, as in 4-19 (4 + 19 = 23), is the date of the Battle of Lexington, Waco, and the Oklahoma City Bombing
    Hitler – Adolf Hitler organized the NAZI’s on January 23. On November 23 he tried to take over.
    Life – The average lifespan of a human being on the planet Earth is 63 years, roughly 23,000 days.
    Heaven – 2/3 of the angels decided to stick it out in Heaven with God after Lucifer and the others fell.
    Braveheart – August 23, the day William Wallace was executed.
    Zodiac – The days on which the signs of the Zodiac begin and end are the 22nd and 23rd of every month.
    Internet – Most URLs for the web contain 2 “/”s and 3 W’s..
    W – W is the 23rd letter in the alphabet. Its symbol has 3 points up and 2 points down. Washington, William, White, W. Bush, World War, Want, We, Winning…
    New Years – July 23rd are the Sumerian and Egyptian New Years
    Geometry – There are 23 axioms to Euclid’s Geometry.
    TWA Flight – 230 people died on the airplane disaster TWA Flight 800.
    Pyramids – Tthere are 2,300 stones comprising the Great Pyramid.
    Latin– There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet

  6. The 23 enigma is a belief in the significance of the number 23. The concept of the 23 enigma has been popularized by various books, movies, and conspiracy theories, which suggest that the number 23 appears with unusual frequency in various contexts and may be a symbol of some larger, hidden significance. Discuss…

  7. Linking to an article with 23 citations f’yawl. It’s ok, it’ll soon fade to digital oblivion, and nobody will know the article was also a property of 23. My pleasure.

  8. Jim Carrey claims to have been obsessed with The Number 23 long before being a part of the movie. His production company is called JC 23 Entertainment.

    The plot is largely based on the philosophical writings of William S. Burroughs, who came to believe that the number 23 held mystical significance after encountering it during significant moments in his life

  9. True, but better than being a smelly one… “In number theory, an evil number is a non-negative integer that has an even number of 1s in its binary expansion. These numbers give the positions of the zero values in the Thue–Morse sequence, and for this reason they have also been called the Thue–Morse set. Non-negative integers that are not evil are called odious numbers.”

  10. yeah thanks, or can’t fight because they have too many girls to bring up – Adam and Eve produced twenty-three daughters according to the first century historian Josephus.

  11. but… “If all of the platonic world is contained within some of the mental world, all of the mental world is contained is some of the physical world and all of the physical world is contained within some of the Platonic something is broken!”

  12. It’s math’s Universe, it came first, before time, before matter, before consciousness and before ideas.

  13. The magic number strikes again https://astudentforever.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/roger-penroses-three-worlds-and-three-deep-mysteries-theory/

  14. This one too – about environmental problem solving, still interesting to physicists though. Highly recommended.

  15. this explains it, I don’t think the OP really wants someone to make cows spherical. Just make physics easier to approximate.

  16. So what is real? This is blowing my mind a bit, love the idea of icons hiding the inner workings of the universe, so we don’t get tempted to tinker, or to urr, blow our minds further.