1 hour ago, Otto Kretschmer said:

Today I learned that box occupancy behavior is scale invariant within the Felidae family.

But have you learned that if you put strips of tape on the floor in a rectangular/square pattern, your feline companion will happily lie down within the perimeter of the tape, as if it was a 'box' ?
Or even on a rectangular sheet of paper/magazine you might leave on the floor ?
( yes, I had two cats for about 17 years, and my niece had a baby tiger for almost a year when she lived at my other house )

12 minutes ago, MigL said:

But have you learned that if you put strips of tape on the floor in a rectangular/square pattern, your feline companion will happily lie down within the perimeter of the tape, as if it was a 'box' ?
Or even on a rectangular sheet of paper/magazine you might leave on the floor ?
( yes, I had two cats for about 17 years, and my niece had a baby tiger for almost a year when she lived at my other house )

I have heard of that but haven't tested it empiricaly... sadly.

"baby tiger"? Is that a hyperbole?

Not Hyperbole.
My niece, Alex, is a magician at the Greg Frewin Theater in nearby Niagara Falls.
Last year she made two appearances on Britain's Got Talent

The theater used to keep tigers and when one tiger abandoned its newborn because of a broken leg , she nursed it back to health at home ( until it started looking at her like food ) and it is now in a zoo north of Toronto.

Edited December 13Dec 13 by MigL

26 minutes ago, MigL said:

Not Hyperbole.
My niece, Alex, is a magician at the Greg Frewin Theater in nearby Niagara Falls.
Last year she made two appearances on Britain's Got Talent

The theater used to keep tigers and when one tiger abandoned its newborn because of a broken leg , she nursed it back to health at home ( until it started looking at her like food ) and it is now in a zoo north of Toronto.

Oh, now it makes sense.

2 hours ago, MigL said:

My niece, Alex, is a magician at the Greg Frewin Theater in nearby Niagara Falls.
Last year she made two appearances on Britain's Got Talent

I am speechless! And in need of duct tape myself* before I say something excessively flattering about your niece. But really, that is serious talent, and skillful prestidigitation.

* Not that duct tape is terribly effective at stopping keyboard use.

I'll let her know you appreciated her performance.

Today I learned that in the UK there is The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.

Yes - they like very small art.

I've just reached a conclusion that everyone (myself included) is actually an infinite idiot.

If there is an infinite number of universes (the multiverse), then there must be an infinite amount of knowledge in said universes. Thus, any living human possesses only an infinitely small amount of that knowledge.

I feel a bit humbled.

Edited December 16Dec 16 by Otto Kretschmer

2 hours ago, Otto Kretschmer said:

I've just reached a conclusion that everyone (myself included) is actually an infinite idiot.

If there is an infinite number of universes (the multiverse), then there must be an infinite amount of knowledge in said universes. Thus, any living human possesses only an infinitely small amount of that knowledge.

I feel a bit humbled.

One could distinguish between knowledge and information, however. Infinite universes would require infinite information to describe every particle, field, and state, yet that could be reducible to a finite algorithm. This gets into Shannon's information theory and probably for another thread.

With recursion and looping, it could be in principle a possibility that all those universes of knowledge could be compressed to some lines on a single sheet of paper. Whenever you wanted to turn your attention on, say, Percival Shmeebly in Universe #3456790, you would just run the algorithm and then decompress the resulting Shmeebly History string. So there could (again, in principle, not necessarily in reality) be vast inhuman minds somewhere which can in principle become Percival Shmeebly whenever they cast their attention that way and want the full realistic Shmeebly experience. Basically you don't have to know everything all at once in order to attain infinite knowledge.

Sincerely yours,

Percival J. Shmeebly

TIL that Bill Nye the Science Guy is on Youtube with full episodes:

21 hours ago, Otto Kretschmer said:

If there is an infinite number of universes (the multiverse), then there must be an infinite amount of knowledge in said universes. Thus, any living human possesses only an infinitely small amount of that knowledge.

But, there being an infinite number of universes, with infinite possibilities, there is a possible person with ALL the knowledge of the universe.
Hopefully today you have learned that you should never use infinities to make a point, because, just like Physics theories, when infinities arise, your point ceases to be valid 🙂 .