Saturday, August 13, 2011

Spin, Shannon, and the Kula Ring

This system is known as the "Kula Ring" and involves annual inter-island visits between trading partners who exchange highly valued shell ornaments. The goods used in Kula exchanges consist of two types: necklaces (soulava) and armbands (mwali). Neither trade item is particularly well made or crafted of rare materials. He inferred that the principal motivation for the enormous expenditure of time and effort involved in Kula expeditions to be non-utilitarian. Spacially Intergrated social science

I imagine using Shannon as a close enough approximation to design and verify molecular flow through a complex nanotube factory. I get stuck on spin, what is a Shannon net for spin, as understood in the standard particle theory. My brother sent me this link, the man is brilliant.

A Shannon ring is a circular trading network, with circular flow, a good enough model for spin. It has a set of nodes having the one constant transaction probability, in the simplest form.

Why would these islanders engage in spin? Well, the log(i), the quant is a small constant, these tribes are a few days canoe ride apart. So, the Islanders set the appropriate probability or rate, thus guaranteeing that any meeting of the tribes is a moderate surprise, no more no less. Note the information passage, a tribe has a finite path to knowledge of a tribe two or more links over.

OK, how about the spin of a container making the round trip in global trade, it makes a closed loop right? So the concept of spin likely should be introduced, it would make a difference in finding nuances in the contango trade with oil tankers.

Spin rings have quantized angular momentum. A spin network can be composed of more than one i, so then we apply the Fibonacci set to the elements. These economic loops and atomic spin, can be looked at with queueing theory, so we sort of complete all the connections.

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