The Aleph א

 "Truth cannot penetrate a closed mind. If all places in the universe are in the Aleph, then all stars, all lamps, all sources of light are in it, too" - Jorge Luis Borges


Yesterday was the first day of my lecture class.  I began with these words:

This is College now, it is not High School or an extension thereof,  it is a whole different ball of wax.  This class is transferable to any University in the USA and Canada, therefore the material covered in this class will be essentially the same as any other University in North America.   I am morally obligated to teach the same thing as what is taught elsewhere if you ever plan to transfer this course to some other institution of higher learning.  The only difference perhaps would be the facility of presentation.  BUT…  We cannot water down this subject too much and be faithful to the Moral Law and the principle that this is a course equivalent to a like course in any College or University. 

Then I went on to discuss who I am and who I am besides my biography (my hobbies). 

After that I naturally talked a little about my vocabulary.  i.e. the symbols and abbreviations I will occasionally use in class.  When I got to א  = the cardinality of an infinite set,  I was met with 10,000 mile stares.  OK maybe they were stares into ∞, but since I cannot see into ∞, I assume they only were 10,000 miles.

I dismissed the class with these words:

You think you are listening and talking to a real person, but in fact you are engaged with a 13 dimensional matrix of energy strings, bombarded by approximately 10 to the 500th power of subatomic particles per second traveling at near the speed of light constantly.  The only reason I have the shape I have and am here in this location, in some randomly chosen 13 dimensions of an odd sort of Hilbert Space, is that there is also a lattice of algorithms which randomly choose to control the eigenvectors of those strings and the velocity and order at which a super algorithm decides the algorithms of the lattice are applied, and the frequency of their oscillations and the dimensions at which the resultant wave travels in that Hilbert Space.  If you came to this class looking for the facts and just the facts, I just gave them to you and just the facts verifiable by scientific experiment.  Now on to discussing Ethics in the natural world we call the real world, which of course is not actual because of the previous sentences, but nonetheless we need to get on with the business of this class

See you Thursday this same hour, this same place!

 

 I wonder how many will drop?