Porphyry, Sacrifice, and the Orderly Cosmos

Porphyry, Nature, and Community

The sacrifice precision method

Sometimes problems are only hard when the numerical quantities are arbitrary, complicated large integers. When these numerical quantities are limited to being small integers, the problems become efficiently solvable. (One way to formalize this is to consider these quantities as being specified in unary, and ask if the problem becomes polynomial-time solveable.) This is called being “hard in the...

Ritual, Masks, and Sacrifice

INTRODUCTION Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face. The mask makes the disengagement from ordinary time and the connection to the ancient and repetitive, which is the heart of ritual, psychologically acceptable. Together, ritual and mask facilitate the apprehension of identity and its connections with pa...

3 Neutrinos and the Cosmos

Gustavo Branco’s distinguished contributions include leading ones to neutrino physics, CP violation, and leptogenesis. To plan the future experimental exploration of some of the physics to which Prof. Branco has contributed, and which is near and dear to his heart, several studies focusing on neutrinos have been carried out. I would like to report on one of these, sponsored by four Divisions of...

The orderly chaos of proteins.