Alice in CS Lib-land

May book na Alice in Wonderland sa College of Science Library. Who would have any intention of going to CS Lib and read a fairy tale? Siguro sa Main Lib OK pa. Anyway, hiniram ko. Hmmhahaha, imagine my embarrassment when the librarian realized that what I'm borrowing was Alice in Wonderland. She was even puzzled that a book with 'PZ' as starting letters for a call number would exist in 'Q' books.

And what in the black holes and time warps, may mathematical implication pala ang Alice in Wonderland! If I'm not blind, it was from Professor Natividad of the Department of Mathematics. Parang Caring Natividad ang nakalagay sa baba ng Preface. Anyway, the book has lots of marks on it. To quote sa marks niya sa preface, "Lewis Carrol was perplexed with the ideas of Mathematics... The looking-glass is mathematics!" Hidden throughout the story were logic, modern geometry, topology and even permutation and cryptography! At least with the marks made by Natividad. And if you even bothered assessing the sentences, may mga ideas nga na (hindi napansin siguro ni Natividad) imply mathematics!

Maybe Lewis Carrol was trying to hide his ideas in a fairy tale. Parang si Leonardo da Vinci sa Last Supper (if it were true). Kasi walang pinatutunguhan yung kwento at bata lang talaga ang makaka-enjoy nun (pero na-enjoy ko ha! it's quite idealistic even without the math. ergg, siguro isip bata ako). Siguro kasi di ko pa nababasa yung Through The Looking Glass but at least sa Alice in Wonderland, walang flow. Hahaha. Mmmm. The mystery behind Lewis Carrol.

"The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours." - The Duchess

Maraming quotable quotes. Though hindi masyadong inspiring. Pampa-isip lang. But still, the logic segues are fantastic.

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Napaisip ako sa jeep kanina: How would you know that a point is rotating when it is just a point?

One could try colliding the point with a plane or something like paper or chair and measure the corresponding change in momentum of that something. Kaso diba change in momentum would only occur if there is change in linear velocity? But does a rotating point has velocity? You know, there's no moment arm or radius (zero?) or anything that you would multiply to the angular velocity to get linear velocity. Hahahaha. Then use energy methods! But no, no radius so zero moment of inertia even though there is angular velocity, zero energy. Wala lang.

So does this debunk the real existence of a point? Hehehe. Then a photon is not a point. But how infinitesimal can infinitesimal be?

I declare that this is the Alice in Wonderland Effect. Hahaha.

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How small is infinitesimal? How large is infinite? Does reality have to be infinitely bounded?

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Uy. It is there: (link)