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Last month I was at Blockbuster trying to find a good 'thinking man' film, when I came across one entitled, simply and most alluringly, p (a Greek letter pronounced 'pie' which, to those who've never taken a geometry course, represents the shortest distance around a circle divided by the longest distance across it). Reading the blurb on the back, it would seem this movie was about a man who went mad trying to figure out some great truth that was encoded in this enigmatic number. Although I didn't end up renting the video, it did set me to thinking about the nature of Infinity (which was pretty much the point, so why spend $7.50?) It soon became clear to me that p contains not just one truth encoded in it, but that it is actually possible to find a record of anything that ever was written, anything that ever will be written, and anything that ever could be written, hidden within it's infinite recesses of decimals.

To understand how this is possible, we must start with an ancient Kabbalistic idea know as gematria, whereby we create a mapping system of letters to numbers such as:

1=A, 2=B, 3=C, ...

So, using this encryption system to spell the word 'KIND', we would write the numbers:

11, 9, 14, 4 or 119144

Now, this is a fairly simple system of encypherment. Given the difficulties humanity has had to overcome to detangle the 'Secret Code' of life so far, it is unlikely that it would be written so overtly. Therefore, let's add a twist to our encryption technique to make it a tad more esoteric, such that we allow the addition of any multiple of 26 (a full alphabet length, similar in concept to octaves in music) to the letter's value first.

For instance, A=1, but adding 26, we get A also equal to 27.
Adding 2X26=52, we allow that A may also be represented by the number 53,
then, increasing the multiple of 26 integrally, we will also allow 79, 105, 131, 157, etc.

This can easily be expressed in a mathematical notation known as the MOD function (which gives the remainder when you divide two numbers and can be found on the Windows Calculator when it is set to scientific mode). Therefore, the cypher system we are selecting is:

If any number (x) MOD 26 equals 1, that number (x) represents the letter A, ..., etc.
(see table below).

Taking our word 'KIND' once again, we could now write the number as

K = (5x26)+11 = 141 (141 MOD 26 = 11 = K)
I = (22794x26)+9 = 592653 (592653 MOD 26 = 9 = I)
N = (226843x26)+14 = 5897932 (5897932 MOD 26 = 14 = N)
D = (14793324378x26)+4 = 384626433832 (384626433832 MOD 26 = 4 = D)

or, putting it together (to hide it from the heathens, of course), we have

KIND = 1415926535897932384626433832

Which, as we well know, are the first 28 decimals in the expansion of p:

3.1415926535897932384626433832...

Now, all this may seem a bit contrived, and that's because it is. As is obvious, the decimals of p may be split any number of ways, for instance

14-15-9-26-5 or N-O-I-Z-E.

The point we must realize is that, due to its infinite nature, p can be split to say anything we choose. Whatever 'truth' we decide to decode from the decimals we see that, given that we have 26 letters in our language, we can expect whatever one we opt to write next in the story to take, on average, 26 decimal places to be represented. For instance, taking just the first 32 decimals of p (which is as many as I could manage, using the MOD function of the (30) two-bit Windows calculator) we get the following:

As we see, we are able to represent over half our alphabet in the first 32 decimals of p. Although it may seem burdensome to say that each letter can be expected to take an average of 26 digits before it can be represented, it wouldn't matter if we decided to take ten trillion trillion decimals before we allowed it to be represented, we could still decode from the decimals of p, not only everything ever written, but everything that could ever possibly be written. We could then continue to write this same message ad nausium afterward. Or we could choose to compose any other fib we fancied, in any number of variations... 'til kingdom come.

Furthermore, we did not necessarily have to chose the English language for our decryption of the 'Secret Code'. We could just as easily have chosen the Hebrew alphabet, and used MOD 22 as our function, instead of MOD 26. We could also have chosen a much simpler alphabet of just four letters, say: C, G, A, T. As any biochemist can tell you, using these four letters (and the MOD 4 function, of course) we could decode from the decimals of p, not only your own DNA sequence, and not only that of every species of life that has ever existed or will ever exist on the planet Earth, but of every DNA-based species that ever could exist anywhere, anywhen, anyhow.

That is the power of Infinity.

Perhaps the reason the poor protagonist in that DVD went insane trying to figure out the 'Secret Code' was that he couldn't think-outside-the-box as we have just done. For, given what we have discussed above, we know there actually is a very great truth waiting to be discovered in the decimals of p. That is this: Every 'thing' in all reality may be likened to an irrational number. (A statement which I'm sure is making old Pythagoras turn in his tomb.) Let's say, for example, that my soul (Simon, the Pi-man?) is represented by the number p (as opposed to e, or 3Ö2, or whatever). In the infinite expansion of decimals then, we have determined above that we can decode my DNA sequence, my life story, and a record of every thought I could ever imagine. This is pretty freakin' amazing in itself, but if we think-outside-the-box once again, it is possible to discover an even deeper truth. That is this: All reality is simply a matter of a free-will choice of perspective (i.e. which strategy you choose to decode digits) on the infinite potential of being (i.e. the irrational number representing your Soul, in my example, p). Reality as we know it then, is the interference pattern formed by the bisociation of Perspective (Yang) and Potential (Yin).

Stepping out of the box for a third and final time, we can finally realize "The Meaning of Life".

As stated and portrayed so eloquently in Tom Robbins book, Another Roadside Attraction:

"In life, there is nothing to win or lose, the only thing that matters is style."

Hmmm....

With this in mind, I would like to offer an invitation to join in on something new I am starting.

It is called:

This is a philosophical discussion group with a twist:

All postings must be in some form of verse: be it poetry, a song, an equation, whatever.

As stated in the 'About' section of the site...

You may view the Song, and post your verse directly, here:

http://ca.oocities.com/oursongofsongs/

You may join our group here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oursongofsongs/

It is my belief that we are to create something of immense value to humanity.

So please...

submit your small slice of samadhi.

Sincerely,
Simon

P.S.
The immense implications for immortality involved in this idea are immediately evident, except they are external to the examination I have elected to exhibit. Moreover, to the Mensa minded minutia of Mother Earth, I maintain that any mathematical mistakes in my meditation you might want to mention were missed due to my mediocre abilities in managing manuscripts, and nothing more. An admission to the absolute attestability of the approximations, all ought allow.

:O)

Morte Nunquam Reget

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