Sunday, April 20, 2008

Nimath(english science fiction)

Nimath (n) : The events that take place after the end.

The last entry from the journal of Dr.Conrad Paguntalan Jr :-

One word keeps repeating itself in my head these days "Nimath"
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Have you ever noticed
              the antinomy
                                 in the dichotomy
That as days drag on
                          weeks fly past ,
Months trudge ahead
                         as years flit away
And when we say
                       that  times have changed,
        it is we
                   who have changed the most ?

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     Is it normal that
      sometimes I feel like
                           A Fraud
                                A Fake
                 A Grand deciever
    caught in a giant sticky web
                        of self deception,
                                     A pretender
                   keeping a farcial facade
                                  in a parody of life ?

                                               Or that  I
                         Issue open challenges
              to the powers that might be
                                   to smite me,
     Make me cease from existence
                                       Curious ,
                                 Just to see,
               If it makes any sense
                             and if at all
                   any difference ?
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Nimath
the glassy glazed emptiness
Mapthaput
The sheer ridiculousness
nikhatborat
all these jactitatious perversions
cabigayongahindiapo
tubbatha boholified prostation of  everyone
antipode of the ultimate
nimath the only path
nimath the nilpotent
nimath the nihil
nimath the vacuous void
Its all nimath
there's nothing beyond
nothing above,
below ,ahead or behind
Nimath

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(sidenote)
It is a well known fact that Dr Conrad Paguntalan Jr. the  eminent physicist and nobel laureate  commited suicide on 20/11/2184 by consuming 1nanogram of antimatter.It was also well known (atleast among the scientific community) that he was on the verge of a groundbreaking discovery , the final nail in the coffin of the Grand Unified Theory.
What he had managed to do, in layman's terms , was to look into ,through and beyond a singularity , or more commonly known  as a black hole .
What he found beyond , or what he made out of it is not known at this time , but it is widely believed that he had coined a term 'Nimath' for what he saw beyond the impossible.
Since this was the last journal entry was found beside his deceased body , we can conclude that this was his suicide note .
The unusual use of verse with compound Anglo-saxon and south east asian idiom  might hold the key to uncovering the secrets that he left behind (for unfortunately he had destroyed his experiment logs and all other journals.)
We as fellow scientists will endeavour our best to uncover what Dr.Paguntalan discovered but refused to share with the rest of the world( for whatever reasons .)
The world will sorely miss the sheer intellect of Dr.Paguntalan.
The scientific community will miss the genius scientific revolutionary.
I miss my best friend .
Goodbye Conrad,
May you find peace in Nimath.
(and yes Conrad , I'm the monkey , not you )

p.s.
Nimath (n) : The events that take place after the end.
(This is the best I could define nimath with the limited intellect that I possess)

Further reading :
What is a singularity ?
                                        In Physics and Mathematics, singularity is defined as a point at which a complex function is undefined because it is neither differentiable nor single-valued while the function is defined in every neighbourhood of the point. Specifically, a quantity which approaches infinity as another parameter goes to zero. Like 1/x when x approaches zero. In astronomy, singularity is a hypothetical region in space in which gravitational forces cause matter to be infinitely compressed and space and time to become infinitely distorted.

1 comment:

  1. NIMATH:TIME CONUNDRUM.
    Older people are even more likely to react strongly against any further
    acceleration of change. There is a solid mathematical basis for the
    observation that age often correlates with conservatism: time passes more
    swiftly for the old.
    When a fifty-year-old father tells his fifteen-year-old son that he will
    have to wait two years before he can have a car of his own, that interval of
    730 days represents a mere 4 percent of the father's lifetime to date. It
    represents over 13 percent of the boy's lifetime. It is hardly strange that to
    the boy the delay seems three or four times longer than to the father.
    Similarly, two hours in the life of a four-year-old may be the felt
    equivalent of twelve hours in the life of her twenty-four-year-old mother.
    Asking the child to wait two hours for a piece of candy may be the
    equivalent of asking the mother to wait fourteen hours for a cup of coffee.
    There may be a biological basis as well, for such differences in
    subjective response to time. "With advancing age," writes psychologist
    John Cohen of the University of Manchester, "the calendar years seem
    progressively to shrink. In restrospect every year seems shorter than the
    year just completed, possibly as a result of the gradual slowing down of
    metabolic processes." In relation to the slowdown of their own biological
    rhythms, the world would appear to be moving faster to older people,
    even if it were not.

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