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BarkellWH -> Calendrical Date Palindrome This Sunday (Feb. 1 2020 14:07:33)

This Sunday's date marks an unusual eight-digit palindrome when written 02/02/2020. A palindrome, as you might know, is a sequence that reads the same forward as it does backward. Interesting little factoid, although nothing to do with flamenco.

Bill



rombsix -> RE: Calendrical Date Palindrome This Sunday (Feb. 1 2020 14:57:59)

Genetics :P



Piwin -> RE: Calendrical Date Palindrome This Sunday (Feb. 1 2020 15:22:27)

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.



BarkellWH -> RE: Calendrical Date Palindrome This Sunday (Feb. 1 2020 17:08:45)

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In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.


Guy Debord. I have never seen the film, but a synopsis makes it seem a lot like something by Luis Bunuel. Am I correct, or off the mark?

Bill



Ricardo -> RE: Calendrical Date Palindrome This Sunday (Feb. 1 2020 17:25:48)

It will be a good day to work on my negative harmony




Piwin -> RE: Calendrical Date Palindrome This Sunday (Feb. 1 2020 19:50:13)

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Am I correct, or off the mark?


I wouldn't know. All I know of Debord is his book "The society of the spectacle", which, IIRC, is a Marxist critique of society, except that he replaces Marx's concept of fetichizing commodities with the concept of fetichizing spectacles. I know that palindrome from Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose". Perhaps he got it from Debord.

Here's a rather curious one that I remember briefly studying in Latin class in highschool:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square

I'm just finding out now, with the Wikipedia article, that there is no consensus on what the Sator square actually means. Our teacher had impressed on us that it had been used by early Christians to signal their presence to each other. I had gone on to believe this was fact but apparently it is not nearly as definitive as I thought.



Ricardo -> RE: Calendrical Date Palindrome This Sunday (Feb. 2 2020 19:04:35)

In case anybody buys in to the mystic magic of the numerology of the calendar and other nonsense about the calendar might learn a lot from this:




Richard Jernigan -> RE: Calendrical Date Palindrome This Sunday (Feb. 3 2020 0:13:55)

At least as far back as Galilieo it was recognized that motion is always relative to something. Newton explicitly proposed that his laws of motion were true "relative to the fixed stars." It was clear that Newton's laws would then also hold in a coordinate system moving with a fixed speed and direction relative to the fixed stars.

Astronomy adduced more and more evidence that there were no "fixed stars." 225 years after Newton published "Principia..." Einstein pointed out that there is no preferred coordinate system in the universe, and that the formulas for changing coordinate systems are strongly counter-intuitive, not the equations proposed by Galileo. However Galileo's equations are still very accurate for relative velocities materially less than the speed of light.

Relative to the sun, and to a very accurate approximation, the earth moves in an elliptical orbit which is pretty close to a circle.

"How the earth moves" depends upon which coordinate system you choose.

Just had to get that off my chest[8D]



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