#archimedes
Breaker Bar
Every now and then I get the itch to lift
The simple slender breaker bar in my hands
Snap a socket on the square pivot fitting
And go hunting for a big fat frozen bolt
One that hasn’t budged in ages, rust bound
Threads that yearn to give held fast by a split
Spiral washer, tense marriage of wedge
To pent up tension for no other reason
Than to feel the sheer unbridled joy
That comes from applying Archimedes
Law of the Lever, poised to deliver
A stunning verdict proclaimed with a sharp
Dry crack that travels through my hands
My arms to light up some forgotten
Constellation in a dark and dusty
corner of my brain, closing a circuit
That began with the simple slender
Breaker bar, bequeathed but rarely wielded
A conjure stick to summon you back to
Throw your weight around, tip the scales in my
Favor, balanced absurdly here on the business end.
Sep 29, 2016
Sep 29, 2016 at 7:12 AM UTC
When Archimedes jumped out of his bathtub
Shouting ‘Eureka’ naked down the streets,
He had finally found a way to uncover
The deceit on behalf of His Majesty’s goldsmith.
Had he stolen gold replacing it with silver
While carving the divine wreath commissioned by the Tyrant?
The Golden Crown of Syracuse to be placed on the head
Of a goddess to be tested without being disturbed.
It all began with overflow as he dipped his body in water.
It was evident and easy to observe
That some objects floated while others sank,
Occupying more or less, tri-dimensional space.
Fluids rejecting or enveloping the intruder,
Displaced proportionally to the latter’s
Volume, density and mass, led to the revolutionary
Discovery of buoyancy, sparkling new beginnings.
The understanding suggested, that if an object displaced
An amount of water heavier than its weight, it would float.
The opposite being true, an object displacing
An amount of water lighter than its weight, would sink.
Fluid’s volition to reclaim its legitimate space.
Although the system was unable to assess the fraud,
As shape came into account and a kilo of solid gold
Was smaller than the kilo of golden wrath,
Dipped into water discrepancy ignored the math.
Unpredictably, the genius found higher purposes,
Buoyancy to determine whether a steel ship would sink
Or float, make it through the Mediterranean and beyond,
Where the Pillars of Hercules warn sailors to go no further.
Non plus ultra to the realms of the unknown.
The understanding suggesting that if an object displaced
An amount of water heavier than its weight, it would float,
Bigger volumes, lower densities, empty hulls and ballasts,
Succeeded in opening the gates to new oceans and new worlds.
Buoyancy to explain why our bodies float at sea
Apparently rejected by expelling waters claiming back their territory.
Gases being fluids, air acts the same,
With the extraordinary result that a kilo of feathers
Is indeed lighter that a kilo of lead.
By 0,9 grams.
Jun 4, 2017
Jun 4, 2017 at 6:45 AM UTC
π
( 3.1415926535 )
3.1415926535897932384626433
I once woke in another life; waking up looking around
as if out of a coma;
in a haze but lucid & a - wake;
'u okay, doc? the publican said,
yeh, yeh, I say
& started out to the street;
to get a breath of ***** air;
looking around the street the cars were driverless & really fast;
I had to cross at the green light or get so hit I walked to a liquor store &looked at the kid behind the counter;
I got whisky & Shnapps
& went home to 3DTV th at u could walk into & interact w/; tangible holograms || . |
it was the News; the newswoman was reading an important thing or other but I was shocked (r) \ that I could feel her **** & she just kept reading the news like I wasn't there;
****
I thin k I really woke up n when I
her cherry red mechanical lips said ****** difference had been outlawed & all human beings were now equal & no one could be referred to as man & woman but simply 'human'
or **** sapiens, but that was getting
heated into a kind of separatist thing in a schism over what is human; the faceless bureaucrat society \ decide d( ed to solve the problem
w/ so computer algorithm s & things got
worse; a lot worse; gender disappeared completely;
everyone seemed fine w/ it
but I was an angry( )drunk w/ a rare (a ) & somewhat random ***** & wanted to get it wet by dipp ing it into an available s
nooch; but to my horror the Headlines were all announcing that *** & sexuality were obsolete; punishable by long
prison sentences ;
freaked me out but it turns ou t I was a geneticist, l ike now we have programmers, in this weird future-alt-world every one was a geneticist; makes sense, right.
so I went home & was made was planning to plan planned to build an illegal woman, seriously;
I've been on the run since
Jun 3, 2018
Jun 3, 2018 at 5:06 AM UTC
Periods and orders with their intervals
in modern notation Archimedes called
to the myriad (μυριάς - 10,000), and
by utilizing the word myriad itself,
one can immediately extend to this
naming all number up to a myriad
myriads (108). Archimedes called
the first up to 108 "first order", calling
108 · 108 = 1016. This became
the "having of the third order",
that multiples After having done this,
Archimedes called the orders he had
defined the ordest of the first period ",
and the third order, and so on. Last one,
the "unit of the second period".
He then constructed the orders
Continuing in this way, I eventually
arrived at the orders of the myriad-myriadth
period. The largest number named
by Archimedes was the last number,
which is another way of describing
This number is a one followed by
(short scale) eighty quadrillion (80 · 1015)
zeroes. Archimedes' system is reminiscent
of a positional numeral system
with base 108, which is remarkable
due to the ancient, which employs 27
different letters of the alphabet
for the units 1 through 9, t 10 10 = 10 10 10 = 10,
necessary to manipulate powers
Remember unmoved while the Earth
revolves of the universe of the universe
of the universe of the universe
of the universe of the size of the Sun.
In Archimedes 'own words: His [Aristarchus']
hypotheses are that the Archimedes,
Aristarchus did not state how far the stars
in the Earth. The Universe was spoken
This ratio of the Earth was no bigger
than 300 myriad stadia (5.55 · 105)
Put in a ratio: In With radiance = 0.45 °
with With more than 1014 stadia
(in modern units, With these measurements,
with 2 more light (moon that the angular
diameter of the Sun, as seen from
the Earth, was greater than 1/200
of a right angle years), and With
these more than than 1063 grains of sand
to fill it. each grain of sand in Archimedes.
Feb 6, 2019
Feb 6, 2019 at 7:24 PM UTC