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  • Laplace’s Demon

    Laplace’s Demon

    Posted on August 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Laplace strongly believed in causal determinism, which is expressed in the following quotation from the introduction to the Essai: “ We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know...

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  • Something to lighten the mood on a Friday

    Something to lighten the mood on a Friday

    Posted on April 17, 2009 | No Comments

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  • Vigenère cipher

    Vigenère cipher

    Posted on December 4, 2008 | No Comments
    The Vigenère cipher is a method of encrypting alphabetic text by using a series of different Caesar ciphers based on the letters of a keyword. It is a simple form of polyalphabetic substitution. The Vigenère (pronounced /ˌviːdʒɪˈnɛəɹ/, “veedj-ih-nair” in English; [viʒnɛːʁ] in French) cipher has...

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  • The Greenwich Observatory

    The Greenwich Observatory

    Posted on October 21, 2008 | No Comments
    Went to Greenwich park on Saturday. What a fine day out that was, the whole of Greenwich park and the observatory, Maritime museum etc was a great inspiration to the infinitum thought process. In the main you can still picture how it would have been...

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  • The Hyperboreans of Atlantis/Mu

    The Hyperboreans of Atlantis/Mu

    Posted on September 27, 2008 | No Comments
    The passage of Pliny (Hist. Nat. 4:26) on the Hyperboreans is worth quoting: “Beyond the Aquilon one finds a blessed nation called, according to tradition, the Hypeboreans. Among them, men reach an extreme age. Many marvels are told of this people. Some say that the...

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  • The start of something interesting

    The start of something interesting

    Posted on September 19, 2008 | No Comments
    This is my attempt to sort out my own website, and create an environment for the worlds of infinitum, a story concept that will evolve over time

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