About Coupled Oscillators (Part 1)

By Hans Konstapel August 26th, 2010, under Not Started

In 1665 the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens noticed that two pendulum clocks in his room tended to swing in synch. The same happens with fireflies, cardiac pacemaker cells,  walking, dancing, circadian rhythms in animals and people in a crowd.
When the Parts are closely connected, the Whole behaves the Same as the Parts. If this happens [...]

About Good Vibrations

By Hans Konstapel August 1st, 2010, under Completed, Cycles, Ethics, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Religion

The Good (Creation) and the not-Good, the Bad (Destruction),  are two Waves that are moving in Opposite Directions. Together they create interference patterns called Standing Waves.
Standing Waves are Waves that preserve their Form and can be perceived as Material Particles.
If the Good is a Wave Moving with the Clock, the Bad is a Wave Moving Against the [...]

About the Good, the Bad and the Nothing

By Hans Konstapel July 5th, 2010, under Biology, Completed, Cycles, Ethics, Law, Philosophy, Psychology

Sometimes You want do the Good Thing and the result is a Bad Thing.
Sometimes You start an Activity with a Good Intention but the Activity runs completely Out of Hand because You were unable to Predict all the effects.
Sometimes an Activity starts with a Good Intention and Ends with a Good Result but much later You discover that [...]

About Understanding Mathematics

By Hans Konstapel July 1st, 2010, under Completed, Mathematics, Psychology

When I was a student I made some money by helping young people to understand Mathematics. I Listened to the way they tried to Solve the Puzzles their Teachers gave them and tried to find out their Personal Way of Reasoning. 
When I found their reasoning problem I gave them a new Way to Think.
This approach was very effective. [...]

About Smart Computing

By Hans Konstapel June 16th, 2010, under Biology, Completed, Computer and Communication Technology

When a Search Engine crawls the web and indexes information so that you can access it quickly, the search engine is doing Proactive Computation.
Servers don’t wait for you to execute a search query to start crawling the web; they are being proactive because it takes Too Much Time to find and index what you want.
The [...]

About the Hospital

By Hans Konstapel June 8th, 2010, under Completed, History

In the Middle Ages Medical Knowledge was based  on a world view in which Destiny, Sin, and Astral influences played an important role. An Illness was a Re-Action of God to a Sin caused by the Act of an Evil Spirit. People believed in Destiny and Predestination.
At that time the belief in Heaven and Hell was total. Medieval [...]

About Magic and the Memory Palace

By Hans Konstapel June 1st, 2010, under Completed, History

In the 5th century AD, Martianus Capella defined the Seven Liberal Arts: Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, and (Musical) Harmony. The System of Capella became the model of the Medieval University.
The term liberal means “appropriate for free men“.  The Liberal Arts represented the kinds of skills and general knowledge needed by the Elite. The Servile Arts [...]

About Darwin’s Superorganism

By Hans Konstapel May 8th, 2010, under Biology, Completed

Many people believe that the theory of Evolution is based on the concept of competition. They believe that every gene, every cell, and every organism is designed to promote its own evolutionary success at the expense of others.
The big problem with this concept is that it does not explain the enormous amount of cooperation that [...]