» tachyon [tak-ee-on] noun: a theoretical particle or wave which travels faster than the speed of light. Tachyons exist in a theoretical world where objects have negative mass and time goes backwards.Tumblr (3.0; @tachyonic)http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kutinw87kz1qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“No one wants to play the game of Real Life”</p>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/287996008http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/287996008Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:33:00 -0500<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuhe884Wh41qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/286384631http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/286384631Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:07:45 -0500<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuk0k5QNFp1qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/280562218http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/280562218Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:24:03 -0500<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/5rn9Gf5sXm3ukn2wirWS8knVo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Season’s Greetings Machine!</p>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/273853014http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/273853014Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:40:00 -0500“Connected enough to reality to have something to say about it, but too disconnected from people to have much good to say.”<br/><br/> - <em>INTJ Forum</em>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/270843421http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/270843421Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:54:01 -0500<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krojj4dQzL1qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/252268078http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/252268078Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:49:35 -0500<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt87laRaLH1qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/246509644http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/246509644Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:51:10 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krygn697mq1qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/243760679http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/243760679Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:59:10 -0500<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krojc1GrHp1qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/238145450http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/238145450Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:41:20 -0500<p>Yep, my identity revolves around the program I am enrolled in now.<br/>With that said, the title of this post is an oxymoron.</p> <!-- more --> <p>For Praxis I (our “English requirement” aka BS course), we’re required to keep an engineering blog which will ultimately provide evidence for a claim we have to make on our final exam. As such I’ve been blogging for marks rather than keeping up with this blog. Anyway, I’ll copy and paste my most recent blog entry as my time right now is better spent on a physics lab …</p> <blockquote> <b>Road Block</b><br/><i>Sat, 10/03/2009 - 22:19<br/></i><br/>It’s been 3 weeks and already I feel that my current definition of engineering design (read: this refers to a previous blog entry) needs to shift some of its emphases. While I can point out loopholes in my definition of engineering design, but I haven’t been able to formulate a truly satisfying replacement definition. I find that my problem with “defining engineering design” is neither “engineering” nor “design”, but rather “define”.<br/><br/>My quest to solve this conundrum began in Engineering Math and Computation when Professor Cluett, with relation to complex number multiplication, said, “how would we <i>like</i> to define it? [emphasis added]” I realized that this was similar to the nature of my current definition of engineering design; as it was a university application, I emphasized the components of engineering design that suited my needs in my definition.<br/><br/>In Calculus I, Professor Stangeby also put a limitation to defining (albeit with more emphasis on axioms than definitions), cautioning that we cannot define something without rigorously proving it to minimize internal contradictions between existing accepted definitions. In other words he, in contrast to the case in ESC103 (paragraph above), suggests that we can’t define something carelessly just because it suits our needs at the moment. Moreover, in Calculus I, we learned that a definition for the fundamental ideas are defined by the “rules” that apply to them and how they work in the “game” rather than what they are. This ultimately suggests that my definition of engineering design needs to have some sort of focus on the purpose of engineering design and simultaneously not contradict accepted definitions .. <i>yikes!<br/></i><br/>In Classical Mechanics, Professor Natalia indicated that F=ma was “out-defined” as the definition of force by F=mv/t because it wasn’t “general” enough. Now my definition of engineering design has to be <i>universal</i> as well?!‽<br/><br/>Finally, Praxis I …<br/>Praxis’ learning objectives seem to encourage the <i>personal</i> definition of engineering design (Objective 1, 2) as the implication of Professor Cluett’s statement did (albeit taken out of context). … So the suggestions for the thinking process by which I should undergo to define engineering design has come full circle. And by “come full circle”, I mean my displacement (read:progress) in defining engineering design is ultimately a 0 vector (read:I am a confused soul). <br/><br/>During this post I have been seeking help from one authority to another. Too many ideas have been introduced, none of which I have an opinion on. Should the “Perry Model of Intellectual and Ethical Development” (Lecture 1) be valid, I would assume that I am at a 4 right now … but not even <i>that</i> is an opinion. How would I know that I am at a “4” right now if I’ve never reached “9” to know what a “4” is like relative to a “9”?! Whatever this 9th level is, I better get there before the final exam so I can define engineering design either rigorously, purposefully, universally, <i>and/or</i> personally.</blockquote> <p><i> </i></p>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/220718546http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/220718546Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:40:00 -0400<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/5rn9Gf5sXlkz2gn71lZMwFVro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/213541560http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/213541560Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:56:21 -0400<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/5rn9Gf5sXob5ceqnq1pj1t8Io1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/211089011http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/211089011Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:14:01 -0400<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq8yqbkZKN1qzrvrpo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div align="center">Umbrella Swords!</div></p>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/209062652http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/209062652Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:20:01 -0400<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/197978707/tumblr_kqm2fxNP4j1qzrvrp&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>Reign in Us - Starfield</b></p>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/197978707http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/197978707Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/5rn9Gf5sXqatxi91D3DktWUwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/193798556http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/193798556Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:04:36 -0400<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqag4wy4zD1qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div align="center">yes, please.</div></p>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/192810597http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/192810597Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:10:08 -0400<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq8ut4y8v11qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b><a href="http://www.gadget4all.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=01076" target="_blank">Bear USB Hand Warmer</a></b> - LOL I actually kind of want something like this but less bulky (so I can see what letters I’m hitting, haha!)  My hands get so cold that I need to wear mittens when I use the computer in the winter … except mittens slip on the keyboard = more typos.</p>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/192122640http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/192122640Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:31:00 -0400“It’s better to be approximately correct than precisely wrong.”<br/><br/> - <em>Prof. Collins</em>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/185781757http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/185781757Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:47:28 -0400<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpju5aARds1qzrvrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/185085531http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/185085531Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:17:17 -0400<p>Seriously.</p>http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/184450085http://tachyonic.tumblr.com/post/184450085Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:34:29 -0400