The Quest for the Unicursal Hexagram

As a youngster, I used to like drawing shapes. My favourites were five, seven, and nine pointed stars. I rather liked the fact that there are two distinct ways that one can draw a seven pointed star.

Reductio Ad Absurdum

Preamble:

Don’t worry. This post isn’t all about math. It is a typical ramp through whatever crosses my mind. I wrote the title thinking I’d write about RAA. I have some vague ideas. Just before starting to write, I realized that some people might think “Oh good grief: another post about proof techniques. I’m not going to even bother reading this one.” That’s a fair enough thought to have. At this point, I can’t really say whether it will be about proof techniques. I rather doubt it though. I seem to be feeling just a tad on the whimsical side. I’ll probably digress midway through the first paragraph where I actually do address the title of this post.

Two Experiments with Time

By the time you see this, both of my experiments will have run their course and I will have the results. At the moment (that I’m writing this - not the moment when you, my reader is reading this), I have only the result from one of my experiments. I suppose that if I wanted to write the way scientists write so that you would be inclined to take this article seriously, I’d have put an abstract at the start and written in a more formal tone. I find such things to be a bit boring to read though I think it may be that it isn’t just the writing that bores me. I think that a great many academic papers are intrinsically boring. This might seem like a strange claim since I also think that the world is intrinsically interesting and worth studying. I don’t feel like explaining that right now. I feel like explaining my experiments.