User:YORD-the-unknown

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Hello Pilgrim,

I'm a software developer with over forty years of experience. I have written programs in many languages and many paradigms. I have a lifelong but unfulfilled interest in artificial intelligence. I still love the art and science of programming and plan to continue working until I drop dead, face down on the keyboard, finger frozen in the down position on the left mouse button.

As with my unfulfilled interest in artificial intelligence, I have a lifelong and unfulfilled interest in cosmology in general, and infinity specifically. I love the notion of the Standard Model of the Universe. I'm thrilled with the theories of dark matter, dark energy, string theory, membrane theory, parallel universes and so on. These ideas are all so perfectly brilliant and all so perfectly flawed. They are however a great conceptual improvement over the model outlined in The Book of Genesis.

I believe the poet Blake was right: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite." My humble opinion is that our greatest scientists are not "on the verge of reading the mind of God", they are on the verge of discovering how infinitely complex the universe actually is. Of course, this is all just a matter of perception, so we are really back where we started, with Blake, that is.

Other interests include history, anthropology, geography, mathematics, physics, religion, politics, war, crime, wealth & poverty, justice, social equity, business, investment, literature, art, music, karaoke, movies, photography, humor, boxing, boating, chess, genealogy and so much more. I am interested people in general however, I prefer the company of most animals to that of most people.

I have written an assortment of articles that have appeared in magazines and on well-known websites, but I'm not a professional writer.

For SciFi buffs: The name "YORD" comes from a Science Fiction Theater television program from 1955. YORD was a distress signal from an alien space vessel. However, please do not infer from this reference that I am in distress; just think of it as a message from the unknown.

Your fellow traveler, --YORD-the-unknown 23:39, 25 July 2006 (UTC)