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(superkev, i’d never forget about “here”. …

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well never forget about posting photos!
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OK, well not ones as pretty as these!)

us in a petri dish

i think the notion of us being in a petri dish being equivalent to us being in a different dimension is erroneous. specifically, if we are discussing dimensions, universes are related on a subset level, not on an equivalent level.

if we are in a petri dish ran by mice, then we are still within that universe and dimension. the dimensions which we find within this universe exist for us as well as for the mice. a concrete example on which to compare:
say we have 2 universes - one, in which a baby becomes a painter and one where the same baby becomes a businesswoman. say both of these universes have the baby actually being in a world that is inside a petri dish. they are still in the same dimension! one dimension, but 2 possible universes with in it.

hmm, on rereading i guess i’m agreeing with scarf’s 2nd last paragraph precisely.

a.i. and argument for matrix

hesi, i mentioned this to you. everyone else, here you go, someone far smarter than us argues The Simulation Argument: Why the Probability that You Are Living in a Matrix is Quite High.
i don’t want to go into discussing that possibility, except to say that in my opinion the discussion of artificial life or intelligence does not relate to the notion of multiple dimensions and universes. it is a seperate argument, for the sheer reason that it is possible logically for any combination of ideas on the above to exist without being contradictory. since we do not have clear evidence for one particular combination of “we are a petri dish” + “there are no alternative universes”, it is out of bounds to argue that from one, the other can follow.

in other words, there is no correlation between the two questions.

notion of folding

while i cannot possibly say that i am able to explain folding back to anyone coherently, it seems to make sense to me to draw parallels between 2-3 dimensions, to 3-4, etc. i.e. the folding of time and space must be allowed if we even want to argue that there is such a thing as a 2nd and a 3rd dimension.

more, more!

ha, didn’t expect this, did you :P

here, to assist in your time wastage are some awesometastic links.

the 10th dimension - click on “Imagining the Tenth Dimension” on the left and watch the short explanation. mind totally boggled. w00t!
coke advertisement - (no, not that kind, scarf) from collision detection, the amazing thing is not the fact that coke refers to GTA (the all-evil game, etc.), but the fact that they refer to it without stating it explicitly - viewers “get it” effortlessly.

the water photos are of flowing water on the side of a boat.

well, we are in airlie beach, aka the area of whitsundays islands. can’t wait for our trip tomorrow, everything looks gorgeous.

we have safely made our way up the coast, with a large haul over 600~ kms from rockhampton to airlie beach yesterday. today, we’re just chilling in airlie - found wireless internet and so i bring you lots-a-photos!
sydney to brisbane (KOALA HOLDING IS HERE)
brisbane to fraser
fraser to day before yesterday (eurimbola national park or something like that)

australia is definitely looking more australian - we still haven’t seen any “real” big kangoroos, although hope is not yet lost. lots of wallabies by this point, which is really nice. on the drive to bunya mountains (it was on the drive that the above photograph was taken), we saw wallabies crossing the road, and when we woke up there was one right outside our door, munching on grass. snapshots are available on the first link.

queensland is supposedly famous for the red sand, which is also getting more common. i even got to hold a koala at this point! (as you might have read).

we tanned, i swam (in a lake, swimming in the ocean is too dangerous, there are small nuances like sharks and killer tides), and tomorrow more swimming shall be done at the reef!

highlights of the trip so far are:

now, fraser is a seperate story. we have shared a 4×4 car with 9 other people, and spent 2 nights and 1 whole day (and half another day in start and half another day in the end) on this huge beach dune which has awesome fresh water lakes (freezing, but gorgeous), and generally a very awesome natural landscape. the downside of it being a sanddune and sharing one car with 11 people is that SAND. GETS. EVERYWHERE. those of you who know how picky i am about my camera’s cleanliness, will know that traces of sand inside my LENSCAP mean it literally was everywhere. i didn’t even switch lenses (shot sigma12-24 and mini canon) the entire time.
on that note i should have more photos off the canon tomorrow.
we have bought food together, bought meat from the butcher offered by the place (koala adventures), and bought cheap liquer. oh. my. god. we have not eaten worse meat and drank worse alcohol in AGES. it was so disgusting! and it was such a joy to get back to normal, great-wine, great-food, no-sand world afterwards! but even despite that, fraser was pretty fun. pretty, at least :D

hi mom!

so, i’m in sydney.

before ya’ll go all crazy on me, tim is going to be here in 6 hours, and i’ve just postd 10 new posts!. that still leaves me like 10, if not 12 days behind, but i don’t think i’ll keep up this intense daily bloggin here (unless someone can present me with an argument like “well i actually read all of this”).

anyway. its 12:30am here, and i’m tired, and i’ve formatted 10 entries with photographs! thus, i present the next 10 days after where we left off:

10 - jan 28: kaikoura to geraldine - long drives and changing cars
11 - jan 29: geraldine to twizel, the day hike that killed us
12 - jan 30: sunrise over mountains (twizel to all day bay)
13 - jan 31: all day bay to dunedin, penguinds and internet
14 - feb 1: dunedin to fjordland
15 - feb 2: milford sound sea kayaking
16 - feb 3: full of doubtful sounds
17 - feb 4: fjords to queenstown
18 - feb 5: queenstown to wanaka
19 - feb 6: whole day in wanaka

aand, photographs are here, although not all of them have been blogged yet.

and that’s the map!

what’s coming:
days 20-25 in new zealand
days 01-06 in sydney (that’s today)
more photographs (way more. i’m slow at processing and its already a lot, i think).

leave me commmeeeentttsss nooooobs. otherwise i feel like i’m writing into the V O I D.

yours,

- attention needing child.