From d0e8bac668a1ef2f961958d151bcc9067e3e608a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flancian <0@flancia.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:34:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] autopushed --- 2025-03-23.md | 11 +++++++++++ Thinking in Systems.md | 4 ++++ light.md | 11 ++++++++--- 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 2025-03-23.md create mode 100644 Thinking in Systems.md diff --git a/2025-03-23.md b/2025-03-23.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9a4846d11 --- /dev/null +++ b/2025-03-23.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +- Traveling to the US today! + - As I write this I'm typing on my laptop on an American flight from [[Heathrow]] to [[Durham]]. + - I've been reading and listening to audiobooks: + - I started [[Flowers for Algernon]] on the flight from Zürich, it's already quite moving (as expected). + - Then I continued [[Memories of Hadrian]]. + - Then I started an [[Introduction to Systems Thinking]] by [[Donella Meadows]] called [[Thinking in Systems]]. +- Yesterday I thought again quite a bit about: + - [[light]] + - [[momentum]] + - [[entropy]] + - Quiz: what do momentum and entropy have in common? diff --git a/Thinking in Systems.md b/Thinking in Systems.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d966378ba --- /dev/null +++ b/Thinking in Systems.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +- a [[book]]. + - by [[Donella Meadows]]. + - It says upfront it's going to be light on math and computer references, which it's a bit of a shame, but I also like that it's written for a general audience. + - It's a bit old, from the eighties I believe (but then again, so am I) -- but supposedly it's held up nicely. diff --git a/light.md b/light.md index 55be999ed..8ff6d3a82 100644 --- a/light.md +++ b/light.md @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ # light +- (This node is old and lightly surprising even to me :)) - a [[thing]]. - a [[particle]] and a [[wave]] - - [[process]] +- a [[process]]? - perhaps [[emergent]]? - - [[pull]] [[photons]] - - [[pull]] [[fire]] + - #pull [[photons]] + - #pull [[fire]] - it has been said before: [[come on baby light my fire]]. - [[beams of light]] seem correlated with [[free energy]] @@ -13,3 +14,7 @@ Every day I try to ask myself: where are my [[lights]]? It is a [[question]] with many interesting [[answers]]. +-- + +As of [[2025-03-23]] I ran into [[Gilbert N. Lewis]]'s letter to Nature where he introduced the word [[photon]] into common usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon +