Negotiations for the sale of The FRINGE THEORY have ceased. Unable to reconcile differences, stakeholders have agreed to a spring break. Resumption of negotiations depend on a number of variables that will be assessed at a place and time yet to be arranged.
In the interim, The FRINGE THEORY will be replaced by The NEW THEORY -- a startling proposal that attempts to explain the significance and true meaning of unintended consequences. A blogperson for The NEW THEORY will be announced shortly.
Alfred
Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
No Animals Were Harmed
Cores are largely known (acknowledged). Fringes are largely unknown (unacknowledged). When viewing a core, the viewer is part of the fringe. When viewing the fringe, the viewer is part of the core. A simple 180 degree shift in point of view is all that is needed to make the transition. A viewer who spins is a model of potential, simultaneously both core and fringe (no need to poison cats).
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Inevitable Is As Exhausting As The Impossible
The voice of Anonymous is strong tonight...he/she/it has added much to this stream of de-consciousness in the past hours. Thank you.
The entire day today was spent in a grueling negotiation over the fate of The Fringe Theory. Coffee was not provided. Two dozen well meaning men and women gathered in a very nice room to analyze the significance of TFT and to crassly set a price on it. After a free wheeling group discussion, we broke into three small groups, each group assigned one or two dimensions of TFT to analyze in depth. Each group reported back to the whole twice during the day to discuss progress. After the first report, one member of each group moved to another group in order to take their insights and understanding into a new discussion.
The experience was at once exhilarating as well as a demonstration of the truth of TFT. We began as a not quite random group of individuals drawn together by a need to discuss an idea. Put another way, we were bits of drifting matter pulled inexorably toward a magnetic core. We began as a fringe, orbiting an idea (core) . The core (idea) fed our discussion, pulling us in closer until we began to coalesce around themes inspired by the idea (core). In the end these themes and our entire group merged again to form a new core (idea), which was The Fringe Theory.
Sadly, we did not resolve the terms of sale of TFT. But for a brief moment we merged and burned with a self-sustaining energy that was enough.
Fringe is all that there is. Core is all that there is.
As of this moment, the Cubs are beating the Astros...
Alfred
The entire day today was spent in a grueling negotiation over the fate of The Fringe Theory. Coffee was not provided. Two dozen well meaning men and women gathered in a very nice room to analyze the significance of TFT and to crassly set a price on it. After a free wheeling group discussion, we broke into three small groups, each group assigned one or two dimensions of TFT to analyze in depth. Each group reported back to the whole twice during the day to discuss progress. After the first report, one member of each group moved to another group in order to take their insights and understanding into a new discussion.
The experience was at once exhilarating as well as a demonstration of the truth of TFT. We began as a not quite random group of individuals drawn together by a need to discuss an idea. Put another way, we were bits of drifting matter pulled inexorably toward a magnetic core. We began as a fringe, orbiting an idea (core) . The core (idea) fed our discussion, pulling us in closer until we began to coalesce around themes inspired by the idea (core). In the end these themes and our entire group merged again to form a new core (idea), which was The Fringe Theory.
Sadly, we did not resolve the terms of sale of TFT. But for a brief moment we merged and burned with a self-sustaining energy that was enough.
Fringe is all that there is. Core is all that there is.
As of this moment, the Cubs are beating the Astros...
Alfred
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Oh, The Humanity!!
Imagine a well intentioned scientist, about a 100 trillion light years tall (images appear smaller than actual size). This scientist runs a particle accelerator and has focused his career on discovering what would be the smallest particle ever known.
One day he dips his molecular ice cream scoop into some radioactive rocky road, and scoops up just one of an infinite array of fascinating molecules. He deposits his selection in the accelerator, then launches it in a great circular pathway at an incomprehensible speed.
Now, in the same accelerator, but on an a track headed in the opposite direction, our scientist deposits a particularly hard nugget -- more or less the same size as the molecule of rocky road, but much harder and more massive. Both bits gain incredible speed and are finally nudged into a head-on collision. The nugget vaporizes the molecule and our scientist tracks the debris and does, indeed, discover the smallest, wee-ist bit of existence ever known.
This is a very smart scientist with very expensive equipment. Not only does he detect the smallest particle EVER, he has frozen it in the form of an image captured on an incredibly sensitive camera. The camera has, in fact, caught extraordinary detail and definition and the image is magnified again and again and again until the researcher sees this: (photo of smallest particle EVER).
Does it matter that the particle remains a mystery to the good scientist? Does it matter that the molecule our scientist studied was the Milky Way Galaxy and that this image is all that remains? Does it matter that he prematurely ended the final game of the 2011 championship? Does it matter?
Negotiations continue in the possible sale of The Fringe Theory.
More to come...
Alfred
One day he dips his molecular ice cream scoop into some radioactive rocky road, and scoops up just one of an infinite array of fascinating molecules. He deposits his selection in the accelerator, then launches it in a great circular pathway at an incomprehensible speed.
Now, in the same accelerator, but on an a track headed in the opposite direction, our scientist deposits a particularly hard nugget -- more or less the same size as the molecule of rocky road, but much harder and more massive. Both bits gain incredible speed and are finally nudged into a head-on collision. The nugget vaporizes the molecule and our scientist tracks the debris and does, indeed, discover the smallest, wee-ist bit of existence ever known.
This is a very smart scientist with very expensive equipment. Not only does he detect the smallest particle EVER, he has frozen it in the form of an image captured on an incredibly sensitive camera. The camera has, in fact, caught extraordinary detail and definition and the image is magnified again and again and again until the researcher sees this: (photo of smallest particle EVER).
Does it matter that the particle remains a mystery to the good scientist? Does it matter that the molecule our scientist studied was the Milky Way Galaxy and that this image is all that remains? Does it matter that he prematurely ended the final game of the 2011 championship? Does it matter?
Negotiations continue in the possible sale of The Fringe Theory.
More to come...
Alfred
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Breaking News
Dear Readers:
Although The Fringe Theory (TFT) has yet to show a profit, its unique value and extraordinary potential have been recognized by a source I am not at liberty to name. We are currently in negotiations to sell TFT for a substantial sum -- enough to allow me and a small nation to live comfortably for the rest of our collective lives (barring a shooting war).
While my legal staff, headed by Fay Fey, work on the details of this transaction, I will still make daily posts to this blog, but on non-TFT content (as part of the negotiated pre-negotiation contract).
This is an exciting time for the entire staff at TFT. Regardless of the outcome, it is reassuring to know that our work is appreciated.
To all our faithful readers, your thirst for more details on TFT will eventually be slaked (lovely word, "slaked" -- from the Old English meaning "slay" and "baked"; a term that referred to cooks who served in the Christian crusades).
Stay tuned...
Alfred
Although The Fringe Theory (TFT) has yet to show a profit, its unique value and extraordinary potential have been recognized by a source I am not at liberty to name. We are currently in negotiations to sell TFT for a substantial sum -- enough to allow me and a small nation to live comfortably for the rest of our collective lives (barring a shooting war).
While my legal staff, headed by Fay Fey, work on the details of this transaction, I will still make daily posts to this blog, but on non-TFT content (as part of the negotiated pre-negotiation contract).
This is an exciting time for the entire staff at TFT. Regardless of the outcome, it is reassuring to know that our work is appreciated.
To all our faithful readers, your thirst for more details on TFT will eventually be slaked (lovely word, "slaked" -- from the Old English meaning "slay" and "baked"; a term that referred to cooks who served in the Christian crusades).
Stay tuned...
Alfred
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Wrigley Field: The Life, Death, and Life of a Core
Imagine Wrigley Field at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. Empty. Silent. Except for the hollow night sounds that bounce off the brick, roll for a bit, then stop, there is nothing here; no life, no reason, no purpose.
As the night slips by, first one person, then another arrives. Lights flick on in interior offices and among concession stands. Dawn. Now small clusters of people show up. A few players arrive early to loosen up and practice. Eventually the gates open and early birds arrive to watch batting practice. Business at the ticket windows picks up. By 11:00 a.m. Wrigley Field has become a dynamic, pulsing core. Its presence on West Addison now exercises a strong and intensifying field of magnetic energy that dramatically bends and shapes traffic in a ten block radius. This magnetic pull can be felt much further out as well, in the northern and western suburbs and (we know this through careful comparison of game-day observations by Hubble and geocentric satellites) can be shown to affect activity even on the south side of town.
From 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. and sometimes much later, Wrigley Field is a self-sustaining core around which it can be said much of Chicago and northeast Illinois orbits. Radio signals begin in the center of this core that travel a complex electronic route until they finally escape Wrigley to become detectable around the globe and in space (in a parallel process photons are created and find their way out of the labyrinthine core of our Sun, escaping the heliosphere to warm fans sitting in Wrigley bleachers).
Now think of an outlet mall the day after Thanksgiving; a high school on any weekday between September and June; Washington DC when Congress is in session (or even out of session for that matter); a star at the center of planets; a black hole at the center of a galaxy; a Big Bang at the center of time and existence. These are all cores around which a fringe orbits. In each instance the core and fringe are separate but mutually defining, mutually dependent, and stuck with one another by the firm but subtle rule of attraction.
What does a Sunday game between the Cubs and Phillies tell us about cosmology and physics (common and quantum)? I don't know, but I feel certain I'll come up with some sort of connection that I will attempt to make clear in Chapter 232.
It's sunny and warm today...at least part of the fringe basks in the cast offs of the Core.
Alfred
As the night slips by, first one person, then another arrives. Lights flick on in interior offices and among concession stands. Dawn. Now small clusters of people show up. A few players arrive early to loosen up and practice. Eventually the gates open and early birds arrive to watch batting practice. Business at the ticket windows picks up. By 11:00 a.m. Wrigley Field has become a dynamic, pulsing core. Its presence on West Addison now exercises a strong and intensifying field of magnetic energy that dramatically bends and shapes traffic in a ten block radius. This magnetic pull can be felt much further out as well, in the northern and western suburbs and (we know this through careful comparison of game-day observations by Hubble and geocentric satellites) can be shown to affect activity even on the south side of town.
From 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. and sometimes much later, Wrigley Field is a self-sustaining core around which it can be said much of Chicago and northeast Illinois orbits. Radio signals begin in the center of this core that travel a complex electronic route until they finally escape Wrigley to become detectable around the globe and in space (in a parallel process photons are created and find their way out of the labyrinthine core of our Sun, escaping the heliosphere to warm fans sitting in Wrigley bleachers).
Now think of an outlet mall the day after Thanksgiving; a high school on any weekday between September and June; Washington DC when Congress is in session (or even out of session for that matter); a star at the center of planets; a black hole at the center of a galaxy; a Big Bang at the center of time and existence. These are all cores around which a fringe orbits. In each instance the core and fringe are separate but mutually defining, mutually dependent, and stuck with one another by the firm but subtle rule of attraction.
What does a Sunday game between the Cubs and Phillies tell us about cosmology and physics (common and quantum)? I don't know, but I feel certain I'll come up with some sort of connection that I will attempt to make clear in Chapter 232.
It's sunny and warm today...at least part of the fringe basks in the cast offs of the Core.
Alfred
Friday, April 8, 2011
Baseball Is Introduced
At last, Anonymous has signed in! Thank you for joining the conversation. I urge all new readers to review comments on all posts to follow Anonymous's eloquent response to my humble call.
Anonymous may be several people, but Anonymous always speaks with one voice, a voice that emanates from the fringe...which leads me to further crackpot speculation about the nature of the Core and the Fringe.
Self satisfaction and dominating routine are qualities of all cores. Restless self doubt and critical analysis are qualities of every fringe. A core is consumed with the work of self sustaining processes. The fringe is consumed by the search for a process that can sustain. Core and fringe are usually separated by scale, distance and duration but each requires the other and together they contain lesser -- as they are contained by greater -- solar systems.
Baseball is the perfect metaphor for the metaphor (a recursive way of signalling the recursiveness of the dance of Core and Fringe).
But it is late and I need my beauty rest. Baseball will wait.
Alfred
Anonymous may be several people, but Anonymous always speaks with one voice, a voice that emanates from the fringe...which leads me to further crackpot speculation about the nature of the Core and the Fringe.
Self satisfaction and dominating routine are qualities of all cores. Restless self doubt and critical analysis are qualities of every fringe. A core is consumed with the work of self sustaining processes. The fringe is consumed by the search for a process that can sustain. Core and fringe are usually separated by scale, distance and duration but each requires the other and together they contain lesser -- as they are contained by greater -- solar systems.
Baseball is the perfect metaphor for the metaphor (a recursive way of signalling the recursiveness of the dance of Core and Fringe).
But it is late and I need my beauty rest. Baseball will wait.
Alfred
Thursday, April 7, 2011
The Two Basic Elements of the Fringe Theory
First I want to thank Bill Radl for his enthusiastic response to my first post. Although in general I try to avoid enthusiasm, it is refreshing to receive when it comes in a non-lethal form. Let's see how long it lasts.
The Fringe Theory rests on one basic metaphor that contains two essential elements: a relationship (the metaphor) in which a core (first element) is orbited by fragments (the second element). The relationship between core and fringe, can easily describe everything that is known or unknown (a bold claim for which I will suffer). In general, the fragments in any given relationship occupy the fringe, hence the name of this potentially award winning theory (which could just as easily have been called the Core Theory, but The Fringe Theory has more pop, more crackle, more snap [plus it reminds some people of the musical Oklahoma]).
Let's use the Sun and the solar system as our first example of a relationship. The Sun is obviously the core element in a relationship in which the fringe is occupied by eight planets (and one former planet), some chunky hunks called dwarf planets, and a large number of asteroids and various objets d'art. The Sun and the solar system, however, are located very near the outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, making it and our entire solar system an orbiting fragment around a probable black hole in the center -- but don't get sidetracked down a mushy lane of relativism (i.e., if this is bigger than that, it must be a core; if this is smaller than that, it must be fringe) -- no no no. Because, you see, this is an infinitely recursive theme -- outwardly and inward:sly all things are both core and fringe and all things are parts of an infinite array of relationships in which they are simultaneously different yet infinite cores and infinite fringes.
What I propose is a conceptual, multidimensional, unconventional, sexploitational, fantastically fractal web that will blow...your...mind. (It already did, didn't it? Huh? Huh? Uh huh...thass rite...)
As we will see in Chapter 15, every core is a fragment and every fragment is a core. It is unlikely that there is an Ultimate Core (from which all relationships devolve) or an ultimate Fragment (that belongs to all cores and has nothing orbiting it). These notions are silly silly silly -- I laugh at them heartily.
Until we meet again...
The Fringe Theory rests on one basic metaphor that contains two essential elements: a relationship (the metaphor) in which a core (first element) is orbited by fragments (the second element). The relationship between core and fringe, can easily describe everything that is known or unknown (a bold claim for which I will suffer). In general, the fragments in any given relationship occupy the fringe, hence the name of this potentially award winning theory (which could just as easily have been called the Core Theory, but The Fringe Theory has more pop, more crackle, more snap [plus it reminds some people of the musical Oklahoma]).
Let's use the Sun and the solar system as our first example of a relationship. The Sun is obviously the core element in a relationship in which the fringe is occupied by eight planets (and one former planet), some chunky hunks called dwarf planets, and a large number of asteroids and various objets d'art. The Sun and the solar system, however, are located very near the outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, making it and our entire solar system an orbiting fragment around a probable black hole in the center -- but don't get sidetracked down a mushy lane of relativism (i.e., if this is bigger than that, it must be a core; if this is smaller than that, it must be fringe) -- no no no. Because, you see, this is an infinitely recursive theme -- outwardly and inward:sly all things are both core and fringe and all things are parts of an infinite array of relationships in which they are simultaneously different yet infinite cores and infinite fringes.
What I propose is a conceptual, multidimensional, unconventional, sexploitational, fantastically fractal web that will blow...your...mind. (It already did, didn't it? Huh? Huh? Uh huh...thass rite...)
As we will see in Chapter 15, every core is a fragment and every fragment is a core. It is unlikely that there is an Ultimate Core (from which all relationships devolve) or an ultimate Fragment (that belongs to all cores and has nothing orbiting it). These notions are silly silly silly -- I laugh at them heartily.
Until we meet again...
This lovely fractal found here.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
The Fringe Theory Explained
The problem with all existing theories of everything (unified field theories, final theories, TOEs) is lack of flexibility. The true explanation of everything is a model of elasticity -- it bends, it stretches, it accommodates. The Fringe Theory, as formulated here, is elastic to the core (the idea of core being a key concept within the theory) and, as you will see, will accommodate all that is known and unknown. It will one day be hailed as the answer to all questions, the nostrum for all ills, the...um..something for all something. I in turn will be canonized, ridiculed, forgotten or unnoticed entirely. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if the future held little more than a cease and desist order.)
The main problem I have in revealing this theory is that I don't understand it. But I'm not going to let a little thing like ignorance dampen my enthusiasm, because I believe the Fringe Theory to be True and Undying for the time being.
More to come...
The main problem I have in revealing this theory is that I don't understand it. But I'm not going to let a little thing like ignorance dampen my enthusiasm, because I believe the Fringe Theory to be True and Undying for the time being.
More to come...
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