Friday, January 20, 2012

POEM

What is better than a simple haiku with deep meanings?

人を夢とや

思い知るらむ

住み捨て市

その輪誇張の

宿りにて


That man's life is but a dream -

is what we now come to know.

Its abandoned house,

Where the garden is now home

to butterflies.

Hito wo yume to ya

omoishiruramu;

sumi suteshi,

sono wa kochou no

yadori nite


BY SOUGI

I fell in love with the simplistic perspective of the haiku-- it's amazing to see how long a poem would last and still be read today.

Monday, January 16, 2012

The Open Question::RESOLVED.


Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami is an extraordinary, one of a kind psychedelic novel that contains likeable and thought-provoking characters. Choosing between Mr. Hoshino, the truck driver, and Kafka Tamura, the protagonist, was a challenge to me who was more admirable. It saddens me to choose between these two characters of Murakami’s detailed and compelling novel.  In the end,

Big Question ABSTRACT

How do we study infinity?


There’s a difference between in the connotative definition of infinity from a mathematical perspective and a philosophical perspective. Infinity isn’t something vague or unapproachable, but rather something with a precise definition that lies in the core of modern mathematics. To philosophers, infinity’s hugeness beyond reach becomes paradoxical to a certain extent.

The study of infinity first was thought to be believed that Archimedes, an ancient Greek philosopher, thought of. It was then studied after by many scholars but one impacts our studies today and he was an Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, in the early 1900’s. 

Study of infinity can be only theorized. when there’s infinitive amount of space, there’s infinite amount of possibilities. However, space is not considered to be infinity because there’s only so much of it and each inch is a space of a larger space. It’s just like infinity. There’s three degrees of infinity, each one gradually getting larger. If infinity is something we know goes on eternally, how can there be something that’s larger and more massive than eternity?