just wait and see

I caught myself yesterday sitting in awe of the beauty of two mathematical concepts yesterday. Literally, I just sat staring at these ideas for 5 minutes because I couldn’t believe that they were possible:

1. The first is a way of encrypting data, the XOR cipher. The reason I am so amazed by this cipher is because of how simple it is (Granted it is probably too simple to do anything worthwhile) but as I saw this tiny program decrypt useless information into meaningful data I couldn’t believe it. It’s tiny, it’s simple, it’s beautiful…
2. The other one was Division by two in Binary; simply by shifting the bytes right one place you divide the number by two (Upon further research I realised this was related to shifting the decimal place in a normal [Base 10] number system, it divides or times the number by 10). Again, so simple, so beautiful…

But enough of being nerdy, the point is that the more I research and learn about this stuff the more I appreciate how amazing some of the methods within are. This apply’s to other area’s also, after studying anatomy I began to appreciate how complex everything in the human body is.

If you look hard and deep enough into anything you will find the beauty behind it. This guy stared at screws for a while and began to appreciate the beauty behind them!.

Occasionally when you wrap your head around a concept you can’t help but be dumbstruck by everything about it, it’s like discovering something that is flawless but at the same time indestructible.

This type of beauty is superior than the visual definition of beauty (e.g. “Look at all the Colours!”), it inspires you to move forward and clears all doubt that you are following the right path. When something has the capacity to do that it should be cherished.

I guess the conclusion I came to is that everything is beautiful, and it should all be cherished. Because it’s friggin crazy that anything exists at all.