Bye, Rama
Thank you Sir. Thank you very much for all the thoughts that, without you, I would never have had.
Numbers and mortals
Are there numbers that can’t be said?My first answer was: “yes, a number with so many digits in a given base that a whole life can’t be enough to say it”. I started trying to find an answer to this question thinking back to the old short story “The Nine Billion Names of God” written [...]
A long term artificial object
An artificial solar system made of six stars of the same kind placed to make a hexagon: this view is described in an old novel by Arthur C. Clarke (I’ve forgotten its title, sorry); the whole thing was made by an alien civilization before its extinction and, million years later, it still reminds the human [...]
