{"id":3264,"date":"2016-08-23T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2016-08-23T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:48:24","slug":"no-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"No singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked up singularity and it so does not mean what I thought it did, but get this:-<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Mathematical singularity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematical_singularity\">Mathematical singularity<\/a>, a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined or not &#8220;well-behaved&#8221;, for example infinite or not differentiable.<\/p>\n<p>If the thought of a badly behaved mathematical object doesn&#8217;t make you smile on a gloomy Tuesday afternoon, then what will?<\/p>\n<p>Sunday found us in Anstruther once more, this time with the AB Astro club, taking a walk along the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anstruther.info\/anstruther-model-solar-system-sees-the-light-of-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar System<\/a>, then chowing down on picnics or fish and chips.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3274\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3274\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210176-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"La porte\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La porte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3273\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3273\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3273\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210174-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Crow steps and pantiles\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crow steps and pantiles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3272\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3272\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3272\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210167-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dreel Halls\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dreel Halls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3271\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3271\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3271\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3271\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210166-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Weatherfish\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weatherfish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3270\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3270\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3270\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210160-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wynd\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wynd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3269\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3269\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3269\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210155-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sun sea sand sky\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun sea sand sky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3268\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3268\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3268\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210152-2-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"A ruffled herring gull\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ruffled herring gull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3267\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3267\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3267\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210148-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"One of the solar system plaques\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the solar system plaques<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3266\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3266\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3266\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210143-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Door ornament\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Door ornament<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3265\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3265\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3265\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8210142-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Paul reflected in the Museum plaque\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul reflected in the Museum plaque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked up singularity and it so does not mean what I thought it did, but get this:- Mathematical singularity, a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined or not &#8220;well-behaved&#8221;, for example infinite or not differentiable. If the thought of a badly behaved mathematical object doesn&#8217;t make you smile on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-fife","category-kirsty","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}