If I start writing at 11:30pm its still technically a blog for the 31st of March, right?
I have discovered a new method of doing integration for gravitationally evolving systems - Leapfrog Integration. Apparently it conserves energies more accurately, which is helpful in cases like orbits where having too much or too little energy could affect the stability of the orbit. Who knew?
This discovery was made for the general physics project our group is working on but it might be interesting for future gravitational or otherwise simulations.
Here's a thought I haven't dug up in a while: the hedonic treadmill. It seems we humans adjust to whatever state we find ourselves in. Why, then, do we strive to go higher? It seems as though the optimal human material status curve over the course of a lifetime is an exponentially increasing graph. Exponential material growth is possible and happening, but it's quite a shame that that is merely necessary and not sufficient for human happiness.
To be continued...