Thursday, June 23, 2016

Playing with silly hexagons and cubes for fun

Today I was bored, so I decided to see if I could make a hexagon with some dowels and an elastic band. Then I got wondering what numbers you could make hexagons with. I drew a hexagon to figure out "Hexagonal Numbers", which are just numbers of circles (or mini hexagons) of equal size that form hexagons. Some numbers are: 1, 7, 19, 37, and 61. Then, because I was still bored, I decided to figure out a formula to figure out what numbers are hexagonal.

source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/1344221289
I decided to make a 'T Table' to figure out the formula.

Here is my attempt to recreate it on the computer:
                   x                    y
0 1
1 7
2 19
3 37
4 61
5 91
6 127
7 169
 I tried to figure out a formula, but I didn't get any further then to figure out that the previous Y value + 6 * X is equal to Y. For example, 7 + 6 * 2 = 19. This method was good enough for me, even though it is strange.

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/rubiks-cube-rubik-s-cube-isometric-1321166/
 I started thinking about how hexagons looked like cubes viewed at an angle (See right image). Then I was thinking about how they have the same about of sides as cubes (six).

Then, after thinking about cubes and hexagons and such for a while, I figured out that if you add up some adjacent hexagonal numbers (starting at 1) you get a cubic number! An example is 1+7+19 = 27, which can form a cube, such as the Rubik's cube on the right.

Cool!

What Are 'Souls'?


What is a 'soul'? For as long as I can remember I have wondered what a soul is.

Google defines a soul as: "The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal."
This is something along the lines of what most people think, and what I think. There is nothing wrong with this definition. But what IS the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal? Is it electricity? Electromagnetic waves? Heat? So-called 'Energy' of whatever form?

So, What is a Soul?
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/healthblog/8384110298/
Google defines information as: "What is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things." So, a rock, for instance, could have information in the form of 'what-elements-are-where-and-what-are-their-charges-and-bonds' for example.

Souls (I think) are places with a high concentration of changing information. Things like brains, computers, plants, ocean waves, cell phones are some examples of things with changing information.
Souls have 'consciousness'.

Unconsciousness
When you are unconscious or in a coma, less information is changing in your brain, so your soul becomes more diffused around you instead of concentrated in your brain as it usually is. This is why you are Unconscious when you are in a coma. This is also the case when you are asleep, but less so.

Why  it is cool
I think that this is cool because it means that you aren't really "You", in a manner of speaking, "You" is just a high density of information in your brain. When you die, the information spreads out and goes into other people and objects.

This also means that when you are close to people (and animals, computers, etc.) and sharing information with them you share souls in a way.


Disclaimer:
Like a lot of other things on this blog, this might not actually be true, seeing as I just thought of it when I was bored today. I am not an expert on any of this stuff, especially not souls!