Grotesque Geometry IV

Conway's creation of numbers from the null set as a gate inscription

Manchester Metropolitan University

First Fractal Tree

Drawn by John Ruskin 1858

(Ruskin, Complete Works Ed. Cook & Wedderburn Volume 3 Fig. 56)

First spiral escalator -- Holloway Tube station, London 1906

Designed by Jesse Reno. -- picture shows the rusting remains of Reno's work.

being built --- how it was supposed to be.

Xmorphia

Writhing worms from a simple differential equation and a super computer

see the film

Lobster and Dolphin stencils

"Am I the only person to have noticed a remarkable similarity between the map of anisotropies in the microwave background radiation revealed by the WMAP satellite and a map of our own planet? Wouldn't it be funny if they were even more alike? What if they were exactly the same? Look how easy it would be for a coach and horses to run through our entire scientific world view. And yet they never do". ----- so writes David Deutsch.

images above taken from nasa

comment; a true grotesque; obvious nonsense yet it lives

Multiple Universes.

Hugh Everett III, in his Princeton doctoral dissertation of 1957 introduced the concept of Multiple Universes to Quantum Mechanics*.

He then gave up Physics and worked on megadeath for the US nuclear weapons program.

How touching that having realised that there are other worlds he was able to take a cavalier attitute to the fate of this one.

(*reprinted in 'The many worlds-interpretation of quantum mechanics, Ed. DeWitt and Graham, Princeton University Press 1973.)