Feral_Squirrel

I would be suspicious of any claim that the blind don't get mentally ill at all. That sounds like an absurd absolute statement. But a claim that there is a statistically lower than normal incidence of mental illness among them doesn't sound all that implausible to me. I would say there are probably 2 theoretical broad categories of mental illness: 1) illness that is primarily caused by chemical imbalances in the brain 2) illness that is primarily caused by unethical behaviour And thus, related to the latter broad category #2: Being cutoff from visual contact and the cravings and subsequent afflictions that result from that craving or from unethical behaviour whose basis is entangled with cravings would result in people with a lower amount of mental afflictions and illnesses I think. For example how likely is it that a blind person would be involved in a love triangle gone sour that eventually led to a murder or something foul... that they then need to cover up with dozens or hundreds of lies leading to even greater entanglement... or so visually captivated by some object outside of their financial means that they resorted to stealing. Or if you are asking if they are immune solely in the context of Kundalini psychosis... then I am not sure of the answer at all. Would be interesting to find out. Sounds at least theoretically possible that their internal energy pathways are setup differently from other people and so the burst of prana that might be frying and overloading a normal person's circuits does not affect them perhaps? I know a girl who has some kind of damage to the pathways around her throat... and consequently a Reiki session that would be mild or even unnoticed by a healthy person, for her leads to hours of tormented mental states. Would be very interesting for science to investigate these sorts of things someday.

wow!!! I wonder if we have a Ramanujan Jr. in our midst excellent work Don!! my first impression mental inclinations on this discovery are similar to Craig's.. namely that the need for so many accurate decimal places will detract some from its practical applications.. but the over-arching excitement of this is still intact and palpable IMO... IMO it would be like finding a triple relationship between Planck's Constant, PI, and who knows what else... Making such a discovery I would feel like I was at the entrance to a labyrinth of unknown depth, and be intensely wondering what goodies are at its center and various side rooms. And whether any indwelling minotaurs were open to bribery. :hihi: Should it hold up to the ultimate scrutiny of your peers, I hope you are financially rewarded in some way, in addition to other deserved accolades. Applying it to the Mersenne challenge might indeed be one road to cash, but then again if the test of primality involves searching for every possible composite pair... not sure how that would fit in.. or trump the Lucas–Lehmer test in speed... oh well in any case good luck sir, may the cash make its way into your bank acct with all due haste hahaha! :eek: oh hey! idea! well on second thought this may be very trivial and obvious... but gonna mention it just in case this has some relevance or research value: I wonder if the GIMPS team and other Mersenne researchers have numbered their primes... one of the very nice properties of your method is that X tells you which prime in the infinite sequence it is... and from what I understand the Mersenne research proceeds as a huge leapfrog, from one primal vista to the next as (2^n-1)'s n is each time bumped to a higher prime... I would presume that by doing so they are leaping over hundreds if not thousands of interval plain-jane primes that lie between the Mersenne milestones, if you will, and thus have no freakin idea what sequence # their primes have. and since your method has the very nice property of knowing what X you are at... i wonder if there is a relationship just waiting to be unearthed in how the X proceeds from Mersenne to Mersenne... like just for example.... gonna throw out some random numbers that for sure do not correspond to reality but just to make the point... say Mersenne Prime #43 has an X of 111 and say that MP #44 has an X of 222 and MP #45 has an X of 333... always this bumping of X by 111.. that might be a cool track to search for patterns on.... but then again if the test for Mersenne primality somehow authoritatively goes through all the smaller numbers that would imply there is a pretty strong chance that they do already know what X they are at... hmm... but if Lucas-Lehmer is strongly oriented for speed and weakly oriented for authority, like I suspect it is, that leaves a door open for somebody to leap thru yay... and even if these science teams do know every sequence #... it still remains possible that nobody amongst them has bothered to search for any occult properties or patterns in their values. well i'll stop babbling lol.. not sure if i'm making sense haha... gonna first look into the matter of if the sequence numbers have already been established or not.

oh yeah and my interests... I'm a videogame developer, specializing in graphics techniques, about to form my own studio in a year or so... primarily interested in MMO's but also have a love of smaller game genres. Interested in lots of stuff... at first I was typing out a comprehensive list but deleted it after it got too long lol... I'm intrigued by everything from math, astro-physics, para-psychology, philology, to sharks with fricken laser beams on their heads My most immediate interest is to redirect the river o' cash that is videogames into viable terrestrial charities and extra-terrestrial propulsion systems. :hihi:

hi y'all I stumbled on this site while doing a google search on beam propulsion and then randomly ended up in Don Blayz's fascinating math thread. I registered on the forum with the sole aim of replying to his thread. But now that this mandatory introduction thread has sort of made me look around more closely I can tell that I will have some relationship with this site for years! Everything here seems amazing and fascinating