472
(unchanging value) matrix (A
2
= A in every iteration; 1 × 1 = 1; 0 × 0 = 0; a person
times his/her multiples of ideas is the same person). But there is nothing to stop
1 × 1 from adding another 1 × 1, and that changes everything in the world.
Second, the algorithm which seeks to identify those areas between numerical
stability and indeterminate bounds or levels of complexity (data-compromised
domains) that can account for the natural world are teeming with fissures, discrepancies, gray areas between what seems to be coherence and incoherence, which are
the differentials that allow for modeling, scoring, rating, in fact, all delineations.
9
For ecological speculation that seeks to solve the identity crisis within the greater
calamities befalling the entire biosphere, there are empirical types of data that easily
confirm our depredation theory of Being, namely, that we do sense and can generally measure levels of nullity.
We can prove, in other words, the negative through its very amplification.
Examples include Kazimerz Fajans’ and Frederick Soddy’s law pertaining to radioactive decay, simultaneously witnessed in 1913.
10
Or the earliest detection of cultural eutrophication, or any toxic or epidemiological threshold or non-linear tipping
point dynamic.
11
Other dominant trends within vigorous élans of ecosystem change
include glacial movement (first theorized by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer regarding
the Rhône Glacier in 1705);
12
succession, as in the case of climax communities, as
first described by Frederic Clements early in the twentieth century;
13
and continuing
gap analyses, as instanced in the cataloguing of biological coldspots and hotspots
and all the gap analyses and vulnerability-increments between them.
Specifically, some of the most famous such gaps regard animal census data from
places like the Serengeti, starting with the fly-overs by Bernhard Grzimek, director
at the time of the Frankfurt Zoo, who, during the late 1950s, first counted “exactly
366,980 animals – chiefly the highly visible grass eaters” out of an overabundance
of concern about the survival probabilities of East African herbivores,
14
Other
9 See Roger A. Horn and Charles R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, UK, 1990.
10 See, for example, “The Suicidal Success of Radiochemistry,” by Lawrence Badash, The British
Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 12, No. 3, November 1979, pp. 245–256, Cambridge
University Press on behalf of The British Society for the History of Science, https://222.jstor.org/
stable/4025999, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4025999?seq=1, Accessed May 9, 2020.
11 See David W.Schindler and John R. Vallentyne, The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World’s
Freshwaters and Estuaries, University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2008. See
also, F. E. Round, The ecology of algae, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1981,
pp. 526–541.
12 See his “Itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones facta annis 1702–1711” as described in “The
discovery of the ruins of ice: The birth of glacier research,” by David Bressan, January 3, 2011,
Scientific American, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-discovery-of-the-ruinsof-ice-the-birth-of-glacier-research/. Accessed May 9, 2020
13 Frederic E. Clements, Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation.
Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916.
14 See “Statisticians on Safari: Our Methods for Counting the World,” in Life Counts – Cataloguing
Life on Earth, by Michael Gleich, Dirk Maxeiner, Michael Miersch, and Fabian Nicolay,
In Collaboration with UNEP, IUCN WCMC and Aventis, Translated by Steven Rendall, Atlantic
Monthly Press, New York, and Berlin, 2000, pp. 46–47.
50 Unthinkable Nullities, Negative Proofs
(unchanging value) matrix (A
2
= A in every iteration; 1 × 1 = 1; 0 × 0 = 0; a person
times his/her multiples of ideas is the same person). But there is nothing to stop
1 × 1 from adding another 1 × 1, and that changes everything in the world.
Second, the algorithm which seeks to identify those areas between numerical
stability and indeterminate bounds or levels of complexity (data-compromised
domains) that can account for the natural world are teeming with fissures, discrepancies, gray areas between what seems to be coherence and incoherence, which are
the differentials that allow for modeling, scoring, rating, in fact, all delineations.
9
For ecological speculation that seeks to solve the identity crisis within the greater
calamities befalling the entire biosphere, there are empirical types of data that easily
confirm our depredation theory of Being, namely, that we do sense and can generally measure levels of nullity.
We can prove, in other words, the negative through its very amplification.
Examples include Kazimerz Fajans’ and Frederick Soddy’s law pertaining to radioactive decay, simultaneously witnessed in 1913.
10
Or the earliest detection of cultural eutrophication, or any toxic or epidemiological threshold or non-linear tipping
point dynamic.
11
Other dominant trends within vigorous élans of ecosystem change
include glacial movement (first theorized by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer regarding
the Rhône Glacier in 1705);
12
succession, as in the case of climax communities, as
first described by Frederic Clements early in the twentieth century;
13
and continuing
gap analyses, as instanced in the cataloguing of biological coldspots and hotspots
and all the gap analyses and vulnerability-increments between them.
Specifically, some of the most famous such gaps regard animal census data from
places like the Serengeti, starting with the fly-overs by Bernhard Grzimek, director
at the time of the Frankfurt Zoo, who, during the late 1950s, first counted “exactly
366,980 animals – chiefly the highly visible grass eaters” out of an overabundance
of concern about the survival probabilities of East African herbivores,
14
Other
9 See Roger A. Horn and Charles R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, UK, 1990.
10 See, for example, “The Suicidal Success of Radiochemistry,” by Lawrence Badash, The British
Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 12, No. 3, November 1979, pp. 245–256, Cambridge
University Press on behalf of The British Society for the History of Science, https://222.jstor.org/
stable/4025999, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4025999?seq=1, Accessed May 9, 2020.
11 See David W.Schindler and John R. Vallentyne, The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World’s
Freshwaters and Estuaries, University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2008. See
also, F. E. Round, The ecology of algae, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1981,
pp. 526–541.
12 See his “Itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones facta annis 1702–1711” as described in “The
discovery of the ruins of ice: The birth of glacier research,” by David Bressan, January 3, 2011,
Scientific American, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-discovery-of-the-ruinsof-ice-the-birth-of-glacier-research/. Accessed May 9, 2020
13 Frederic E. Clements, Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation.
Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916.
14 See “Statisticians on Safari: Our Methods for Counting the World,” in Life Counts – Cataloguing
Life on Earth, by Michael Gleich, Dirk Maxeiner, Michael Miersch, and Fabian Nicolay,
In Collaboration with UNEP, IUCN WCMC and Aventis, Translated by Steven Rendall, Atlantic
Monthly Press, New York, and Berlin, 2000, pp. 46–47.
50 Unthinkable Nullities, Negative Proofs