Reminisce on an old theory

I was recently looking for news about a possible upcoming Nexus 4, when I happen to stumble upon something about "Pear Shaped Atoms and Antimatter". Brings back memories. I use to love conducting thought experiments about things I had no knowledge of, one of those things was antimatter. Since I still have my pictures, I figured, why not. Lets share them. Please keep in mind that this was pure speculation from a long long time ago. I am almost absolutely certain this is wrong.

The purpose of this is to explain where all the antimatter is.

 In the beginning there was nothing, void. This was time before time.

 This little dot here is suppose to be the Big Bang. It represents the start of time in our sense.

This blue arrow represents our interpretation of time, the direction it moves in is the direction in time the atoms on our bodies move in

 A picture with atoms.

So from our perspective of time, this is "Causality" or the way things are suppose to happen.

Going back to the Big Bang, it seems odd that everything went in the same direction.

Why not make assume that because "We" went one way, something else went another way?

So what if "We" are Causality, then what is the other?

Another picture. Two bodies going in opposite directions.

 From our perspective, antimatter are atoms that went off at another direction when at the beginning.

So an antimatter/matter reaction would be atoms that went the other way and ended up in our perspective

 So the question is how?

 (Yes, I know there are many issues with presenting time as circular. But I needed to simplify it at that time.). Lets assume that time is circular.

Remember those two lines from before?

Lets look at my model (which has issues) for time again

So here is how the two would travel and interact.

A picture.

 When there is a matter/antimatter reaction, 

Whats actually going on is that matter that went in the other direction got to the present (?).

 What I like about this model is that it isn't limited to two paths.

What if there were four rather then two?
I was thinking that they would assort to the 120 degrees seen in carbon atoms. Something about destroying each other, but my notes were illegible at this point.


So it's not that there is a dearth of antimatter, it's all actually somewhere(?) else.


I know this has many many many issues, it was a long time ago.I don't really care about this anymore, but if someone who actually knows about this stuff could tell me why this is wrong/right, I would be very grateful.

Felt good to get that out of my mind after so many years.

Play Store 4.0

Google announced a few weeks ago that they would be updating the Play Store to version 4.0. Since that announcement I've been checking literally every 12 hours. This morning, when checking for app updates (like every morning) I saw that Google had pushed the new version onto my Nexus 7

   Unlike the old one, it's easier to see icons, and the color scheme also feels more balanced rather then like TouchWiz. I love the minimalistic feel that it has.

Updates

Games

In reality it's still the same play store we know and love, just with a much needed coat of paint.

Music Page

App Page

It seems that Google starting to make all it's menus resemble the "cards" in Google now. Good for developing a brand image, but at the same time it resembles Microsoft's "Live Tiles" a lot.

Search Page

Categories

Samsung Galaxy S4 Quad/Octo core

Via Techradar: Samsung mobile chief says Galaxy S4 core numbers a non-issue

To be honest, I laughed a little bit when I first read this. There seems to be a general consensus that "More Cores" = "Better".

So how many of you readers can actually tell me what the processors inside the international and the Euro/US variants of the Galaxy S4 are? The differences?

Yeah, I thought so.

So, the version of the SGS4 that was advertised seems to be the one with the octa core cpu. This cpu known as the "Exynos 5 Octa" while having 8 cores, can't really be considered a true octa core processor. The Exynos 5 Octa is built on a processor architecture known as big.LITTLE, which is licensed from a company known as ARM Holdings (they design ARM based processors which most smartphones use). Since I have very little technical knowledge when it comes to these things, I will try my best to describe it.

For those of you who do follow tech news, it's likely that you remember the Tegra 3 with it's variable SMP architecture (later renamed 4+1). The basic idea of that was to have four strong cores handle more intensive tasks, then have a fifth low power low clock rate core handle the less intensive tasks. When you are running a graphically intensive game, then the four stronger cores are running, when you are listening to music, the fifth "companion" core is running. Since the fifth core is low power, it should save a lot of battery life.

big.LITTLE works in a similar fashion. In a quad core big.LITTLE setup, you have two A7 ARM cores paired with two A15 ARM cores. The weaker A7's will handle the general and low power tasks, and the A15's will handle the intensive tasks. With an octa core setup, it's just double the quad core core counts. So when compared to the Tegra 3's 4+1 cores, a quad core big.LITTLE is more like 2+2 cores, and an octa is more like 4+4 cores. The idea is really just power management. Rather then have cores idle and draw power, it's better to shut them down and migrate tasks to cores better suited for it and save power.

Now don't misinterpret the above, A7 cores are not the weak 0.5 ghz Tegra companion core. Pretty much every android phone and tablet that came out in 2012 had an A7 core inside it (aside from the Nexus 10 which is a dual core A15).

The US/Euro variants of the SGS4 use a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 cpu (and most likely the Qualcomm DAC), while the international variant uses the Exynos 5 Octa (and hopefully a Wolfson DAC).


That being said, I can't afford the SGS4/SGS3/Xperia Z/Xperia ZL/iphone 5/iphone 4s/smartphones anyway. Oversimplification, I know. But I can barely comprehend Boolean logic as it is. This post also rambles quite a lot.

Links:
ARM big.LITTLE page (They have some weird cookie policy, just a heads up)
nVIDIA variable SMP whitepaper (pdf)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 product brief (pdf)

Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles Episode 00

Original Japanese

English

The team is making decent progress with translation.

A little late, but regarding Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons

Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons was decided on March 19th 2013. The court ruled that Kirtsaeng was not guilty of copyright infringement.

You can read the court opinions here