Last Reflections

I think my favorite line of all our readings is in Day and Gastel, page 68, in which they talk of the astronomers who "rely on theatrical calculations to give the lifetime of a star on the main sequence."  "Solo performance" was the name of the undergrad class to which I ascribe the greatest influence in my life, despite my majoring in physics on the other side of the art-science divide. So when they say they made theatrical calculations... well, I wish that's how it worked.

At least I got a good laugh.

I'd been thinking about this post. I was going to write something about information theory. Maybe quote the lyrics from a song.

In the darkest part of you that you have ever seen
In the smile of the child staring at the TV screen
In the diary of a priest, in the sheets that lie upon his bed
Out there amongst the waves and inside your lover's head

There is only one thing [x6]
There is only one... thing

(Excerpt from lyrics of "Set Yourself on Fire" by Stars, http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/stars/setyourselfonfire.html)

I suppose this is the ultimate goal of the "theory of everything" in physics, mathematics, philosophy, and across disciplines. There is only one thing.