[UA] Warping Reality with Mathematics

[Raymond O McCubrey]

I read someone mention use of a math school.
	Being a graduate student in math who's interested a lot in
geometry, analysis, and topology, I thought I'd give you my greatest
desire of how I would like to warp reality with math.

My first use of "magic" with math, would be that I could take any object
in the real world, and change it into another object. Famous quote, "A
topolgist eats his  coffee and drinks his doughnut."

Another thing I would want to do is be able to collapse things. Suppose I
had a ball bouncing towards me, I'd simply like to make it into a
line. Turn a car into a umbrella, or unfold umrella into an infinite
plane!

Another thing I would like to do is to use the concept of anlaysis like
magic. The closer and closer I got about some point (concept), the closer
and closer I got to some outer region. It can get funky when you have to
hop points.
	Like let's get close to a beings personality, say their aspect of
love. Then as you found out more and more about it, the closer and closer
you got to the divine meaning that was attached to it. Whatever divine
would be in this game, up in the stratosphere? ( haven't gotten it yet! :(
) [[ Concept of Limit ]]

To change someone's speech, such that they speak only in first order
logic. 
	"Everybody loves somebody"
	changes to "All people love a person x."
	"Someone loves nobody"
	changes to "There is person x who loves noone"

My blast style would be to create simple geometrical objects and strike
people with them. Cones impaling themselves on a person, or a plane
cutting someone's hand off.

Lastly, that taboo suggested was awful for me! How else can I do math
without using pure math? It's simply not possible!! I guess the real thing
would be to learn it in such a way that you don't use the very pure
concepts in math, just simple intuitive thinking. So the mathomancer,
really can show you the intuitive parts, but if they realize the pureness
beyond it, they loose all magic charges. Most pure math desperately wish
to apply the pureness to understand the concepts. Since we can easily
derive great properties from a given statement, by using pure math. Then
agian our sets of beliefs and motives are disjoint, so I don't speak for
the whole.

I have to do my problems now,
Ray McCubrey

-Ray McCubrey :)



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