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I would like to speculate that maybe black holes are, quite in contradiction to what we believe, highly supportive of life. Maybe it isn't the organic life as we know it, but something far more evolved and complex that we can't even imagine. I guess this is in some way an extension of my speculations as a child that in fact the sun is made up of a large collective of consciousness. Some of my reasons for my thoughts include:

- an abundance of available resources

- complex organization

- constant consumption of more resources

- natural defenses against external predators

- possibility of inter well communication, maybe even travel

This is a very quick post, and I may have said something really stupid--aside from the obvious--so forgive me ahead of time . . . .

What are the more common theorems used to derive, for example a sphere in differential form, as a matrix representation? What are the more common expressions used to describe differential forms as matrices?

What is the importance of measure theory, it is a branch that I've heard little about? Can anyone point me at the definitive text on its foundation?

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)!

My economics teacher likes to think that he knows copious amounts of fine details when it comes to computing. He keeps going on about the NSA having one of only two terahertz computers in the world. This doesn't exactly mean much of anything, as far as I'm aware there still isn't at present a terahertz transistor to design a chip on.

So I decided to do a little research and it seems that the current standard in national security is the petaflop. Recent articles suggest however, that in fact there is currently a work in progress toward an exaflop security center, and this has generated some buzz. The fact that the NSA might be listening in on every phone call in the world is now at a peak of concern for those it matters to; like my teacher. I guess it would seem that he had at the very least one thing correct. Although, I doubt the NSA will be knocking at my door anytime soon for the crap that comes out of my mouth regular basis--but then again!

I'm looking at completing my undergraduate as a double major in mathematics and computer science, but I want to do computational chemistry. The school offers a graduate degree in mathematics that specializes in scientific computing. From the perspective of a researcher would this be sufficient to publish papers in the field of quantum computational chemistry, or would I be looking at getting the second degree in chemistry or biochemistry as well?