What JOHN TITOR name stands for

Lol...Rainman....I think we got off to a bad start, but I am actually on the same side. My love of the absurd means you'll often find mutual exclusivity in my posts. But hell, if something can be a wave and a particle at the same time, I don't see a problem in thinking of 6 impossible things before breakfast and agreeing with them all.

Hmm. Pi.

Reciprocal of fine structure constant = 137.035999070

4(PI^3) + PI^2 + PI = 137.03676
 
Lol...Rainman....I think we got off to a bad start, but I am actually on the same side. My love of the absurd means you'll often find mutual exclusivity in my posts.
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No worries...this is fun for me. I don't take anything seriously. But that doesn't mean I let people off the hook easily if they post incomplete or unsubstantiated thoughts. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I can tell your intellect and ability to question responsibly is way higher than any of the "true believers" who hang out here. (and they know who they are recall!) :D

Just have fun while you're here. That's the main goal.
RMT
 
Now whom is having fun with soup?


Pi was relative to a "circle" & it's measurement.
Hrm, if someone was theorectically going "back & forth" how is that represented?
Two lines? Or the same train?

Has to be some balance especially with 'nicknames' fictional or not.
Take Top Gun, did Maverick or Merlin have a calculation?
I stopped at 'Pi' reversed being cool, well because of 'motion', 'forward motion'.
IE. The wheel etc.

Any way. Yeah, so if you followed his story and bought into the tale, let's pretend it was military and science founded ideas.
So Yeah, backwards Pi, cool huh?

John, as in "we have our John Doe"
Titor as in 'Travel in Time on Reconnaissance'.

Kinda fit the whole schema of the story.

See the Brass and think tanks would be happy in that scenerio.

Pi-unrolled-720.gif
 
Oh wow...of course yes....PI has to come into it somewhere. But if that were a criteria then I'd be a prime time traveller candidate
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Teighlight,


"PI" is not a universal constant. It is only a constant in plane geometry. Plane geometry is not a function of curved spacetime, therefore, by definition, it is not a constant of time travel...assuming that time travel is something associated with General Relativity and curved spacetime.
 
Kinda the same idea why I said a circle and not a sphere ?

Some things names are used in honor and some in application.
Though without Pi I doubt we'd be having this discussion?


'And I won't bother with the metaphoric way one could take Pi measuring the wheel above and tie it to 'motion in the 3rd'. Let alone reversed. That's not tied to calculation, it would be tied to a personal jest, or 'code'.

If such were the case. I just like to read into things because it's fun and regardless of relevance I tend to learn things I didn't know before. Useful? whom am I to say.
Maybe I'm reading into bunk, and just maybe fictional or not, I'm reading into the subconscious of the person whom designed it without even their knowing.
See who's to know?

I guess that's why everything has it's place. Nash would have an interesting retort I'm sure lol.
 
All hail John PItor!

Personally, I like a good Michigan cherry pi the best. But if they are not in season of course I will take a classic Dutch apple pi.

Of course in John's post-apocalyptic, dreary world there is no time for indulging in luxuries like pi!

:D
RMT
 
Oh come on now, he was an elite unit, surely he had 'Pi allocation'

(I never noticed, or fully read the story until looking now for fun - supposedly he came back to get the 5100 the year of my birth, too bad he didn't say a day or month, now that would be 'cool' real or not - I'd buy a shirt then ^^).
 
It seems pretty wild until you realize it's just a 'plane pie'
Flatlanders don't digest things that well o.0
In fact, I hear it 'tears them up!'

^^
 
Pi was relative to a "circle" & it's measurement.
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Only with respect to flat spacetime. PI is an approximation based on locally flat space. Try giving PI a value of 3.1416 for a circle drawn on the surface of the Earth with a radius of 100 km. It won't work out quite right. Next try the same with a "circle" with a diameter of 40 light years or more (as in the case of John Titor's "travels"). It will be quite wrong.
 
Depends on the method used to do the 'drawing' ?
If you're speaking about drawing a circle on a sphere I understand that context.
(It would have to be elevated to 'simulate' a true flat space).
Now if we're picking apart a true 2d plane as compared to a 3d space...
does 1/3 * 3 ever = 1?

(What I'm getting at is that just because something is 'irrational' doesn't mean it doesn't give the closest approximation for calculation? There's a few things that come to mind in that context).
 
(2-.000001)(2-.000001)
= 3.999996

(2-.00000101)(2-.00000101)
= 3.99999596

(2-.000001001)(2-.000001001)
= 3.999996

(2-.0000010001)(2-.0000010001)
= 3.999996

(2-.00000100001)(2-.00000100001)
= 3.999996

& ETC

(2-.0000010000100001)(2-.0000010000100001)
= 3.999996


Wouldn't that throw a big crux in calculating pattern?
Say if you took a pattern of calculation in this example, modelled originally in a 2D plane, then had it transposed to a 3D space would the difference be even larger?
The original reasoning of exemplifying this was in reference only to pattern calculation and not at all questioning the legitimacy of the result.
 
(It would have to be elevated to 'simulate' a true flat space).
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Exactly. It would be an approximation but the radii would not be "straight" lines in the approximation if you're projecting your circle as being "flat" in curved spacetime. The rules of plane gometry are valid only to an approximation where the local spacetime frame can be considered as flat. To the best of our knowledge and based on General Relativity there is no such animal as flat spacetime.

does 1/3 * 3 ever = 1?
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Does (1/3 * 3/1) ever equal something other that 3/3 = 1? Any real number (not zero) muliplied by its recripocal is real, positive and equals 1. Maybe I don't understand the question.
 
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