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Musician, Physicist, Theoretical Physicist, Mathematician, Cryptanalyst, Photographer, Philosopher, Audio Engineer, and Writer

09/30/2026

Murdick ladder algebra as a formula. This works with any number and any variables if you follow the Murdick ladder patterns. It's a ladder you climb and end up right back where you started. It causes an oscillation. I've been studying pendulums to see where this appears in physics. Physics is still a question; however, the mathematical system is solid. It shows what happens in change when change does not happen. Sounds odd, but very useful in Murdick Business Mathematics to see if the business is progressing, stagnating, or going backwards

09/22/2026

Early morning Murdick Math, Coffee, and my new RUSH box set with the remaster of V***r Trails playing on my producer system. Summer is almost over, and it's study season. The best season, with remasters bearing no over-compression in RUSH albums. Life is good

09/19/2026

Sometimes a mathematician just needs to show off his homemade equations. The symmetry is what I enjoy finding in math. The split into entropy and back to structured order. Murdick Math has invented its own chaos mathematics, but there is order to balance this one out

09/17/2026

I think I just discovered something new in math and physics.

For the last few weeks I’ve been building a model I call MurdickMath Pulsation Algebra — a system where a radius repeatedly contracts and expands using two quantized operators. What shocked me is that the system closes perfectly, returning to the exact starting value with no drift.

The operators are simple:

C = 8888/10000 (gravitational contraction)

E = 10000/8888 (thermal expansion)

And together they satisfy:

C × E = E × C = Identity

This creates a self‑closing pulsation cycle:

R₀ → R₁ → R₂ → R₃ → R₄ → R₅ → R₆ = R₀

No drift. No loss. No chaos.
Just a clean, reversible, quantized oscillation.

When I mapped each radius into geometry, the pulsation turned into a cluster of symmetrical circles, each one representing a rung of the pulsation ladder. The geometry mirrors the algebra perfectly.

This structure behaves like:

a discrete waveform

a reversible thermodynamic cycle

a quantized expansion/contraction model

a finite cyclic algebra

a geometric oscillator

I’m calling this object M2 — a quantized pulsation system with a full algebraic and geometric realization.

If you’re into math, physics, or dynamical systems, this might interest you.
I think I actually found something.

09/16/2026

Crusader letter to his wife, translated from Latin, section A; I did this myself. I started this project over because my understanding of Latin has improved. This letter has not been translated before; full translations will be for sale on Kindle

09/12/2026

The Order of Saint Lazarus is another overlooked orders of the medieval world.

Founded in Jerusalem, the order cared for l***rs by the 1140s; the brothers of Saint Lazarus were not only caregivers—they were warriors. They formed a military order with hospitaller functions, made up of knights and sergeants with leprosy who refused to abandon their vows. By the 1170s, even the Master of the Order was required to have leprosy, though not all members were afflicted.

Papal records show how highly they were regarded. In 1248, Pope Innocent IV grouped the Order of Saint Lazarus with the Hospitallers, Templars, and Teutonic Knights, granting them the same privileges. Later popes—Innocent IV, Alexander IV, and Clement IV—encouraged donations and even redirected papal revenues to support them.

By the mid‑thirteenth century, the order held lands across western Christendom, from England to Hungary, with a strong presence in Normandy. Their origins trace back to Jerusalem: a confirmed grant in 1142 placed their house between the Mount of Olives and the Red Cistern, on the pilgrim road to the River Jordan. A possible earlier reference (1130–1145) describes a cistern given to “the house of the l***rs of Saint Lazarus.”

By 1144 they had built a house and cultivated vines. By 1150 they were wealthy enough to purchase land on the Bethlehem Plain. Their Jerusalem house stood near the northwest corner of the city walls, with a postern gate leading directly into their hospital—likely granted by the Ibelin family.

Over the next decades, the order gained the support of kings and nobles. Kings Fulk, Baldwin III, Amalric, and Queen Melisende made donations. Amalric even granted fifty besants annually to support a single l***r. Major barons—including the lords of Beirut, Caesarea, Toron, Galilee, Jaffa, Nablus, and the Count of Tripoli—also contributed lands, rents, and vineyards.

The Order of Saint Lazarus stands as a powerful reminder that even those marked by illness could rise to defend others with honor, courage, and unwavering devotion.

09/11/2026

My math dissertation is built on the mathematical accuracy of collapse. As a student of Stoicism and a participant in life’s harder lessons, I’ve learned to find order inside chaos, and my math reflects that. This is part of a project I created for the fall of Carthage, where collapse shows itself as both predictable and preventable.

It’s a project I step in and out of, because studying collapse means studying suffering. The Stoics and the Buddha alike teach that life is suffering — we already know that. The other half, my friends, is how you choose to face it.

09/09/2026

Mother Culture or Sister Culture?

The story of the Olmecs is way more complex than most people think.

We always hear that the Olmecs were the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica, but the evidence doesn’t really support that. Instead of being the single source of everything, they were part of a network of early cultures that influenced each other. Some groups were even older than the Olmecs.

San Lorenzo, their first major city, started around 1800 BCE and became a real city by 1400 BCE. It thrived for a few centuries, then declined around 1000 BCE. When it fell, other Olmec cities actually grew — which shows the culture didn’t collapse; it shifted.

La Venta rose after San Lorenzo, but even La Venta eventually went into a 600‑year decline because the land wasn’t good for corn farming. Corn helped the Olmecs overall, but not every city. It’s a reminder that agricultural changes can divide a culture and even lead to collapse.

There were also other early cultures doing big things at the same time. In the Valley of Mexico, people were farming corn for thousands of years. Sites like Talpilcul had huge cemeteries, ranked societies, jade, seashells, and pottery dated to 1200 BCE. Some villages were already growing before San Lorenzo even became a city.

One of the wildest artifacts is Monument 3 — a violent carving of a man with his entrails exposed. It’s the oldest known depiction of public violence in Mesoamerica and includes the earliest hieroglyph and calendar date (“One Earthquake”). It shows the Olmecs were part of a bigger story, not the start of everything.

Even the famous ball game wasn’t invented by the Olmecs. The oldest ball court is from 1650 BCE on the Gulf Coast, long before San Lorenzo. A massive court from 1375 BCE was found in 2019, and there’s no evidence the Olmecs started the tradition.

By 900 BCE, San Lorenzo fell, and La Venta rose. Other cultures were building pyramids at the same time, sometimes even earlier. The more archaeologists uncover, the clearer it becomes: the Olmecs weren’t the “mother culture.” They were one of several sister cultures shaping early Mesoamerica.

It’s a fascinating reminder that history is rarely as simple as the old textbooks made it sound.

09/08/2026

The rise of the Hospitallers is one of the most remarkable transformations in medieval history, and Raymond Ibrahim captures it with a clarity few historians match. What began as a humble brotherhood devoted to caring for the “holy poor” slowly became one of the most respected military orders of the Crusades.

In the early 1100s, the Hospitallers lived by strict rules that kept them no better dressed than the sick they served. They gave up their own beds when the hospital overflowed. Their entire identity was built on Christ’s teaching that caring for the least of society was the same as serving Christ Himself. This spirit of charity became legendary. Even Saladin, according to medieval accounts, tested their compassion by disguising himself as a sick pilgrim. When he demanded something outrageous—food cut from the master’s horse—the brothers agreed without hesitation. Later, Saladin rewarded them with gold, declaring that their hospitality had no end.

But danger changed everything. Under Raymond of Puy, who led the order for forty years, the Hospitallers realized that caring for pilgrims was not enough if those pilgrims were constantly being attacked. After prayer, Raymond told the brothers they must take up the sword to defend the faith. They agreed, but insisted they would never abandon their care for the sick. Their militarization was not meant to rival the Templars—it was meant to support them. Even as they became warriors, they expanded their hospital and kept the poor at the center of their mission.

Ibrahim’s telling of this story stands out because he shows how charity and warfare existed side by side in the medieval Christian world. The Hospitallers did not become soldiers out of ambition. They became soldiers because protecting the weak was part of their holy duty. Their compassion shaped their courage, and their courage protected their compassion. It is one of the most striking examples of how faith, danger, and duty intertwined during the Crusades.

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