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Christopher shouldn't be toting guns anyway. Is he a fall guy?

This whole mu (µ) thing is interesting. It's tangential, but interesting ... it's cropped up in many places. I know it from mathematics and ancient Greek poetry in the day (1980s), when I took a class (boy, I hearted Aeschylus!). I noticed it re 'morality index' on another Avalon thread and I'm not familiar with that angle.

Definitions (wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter))

It has a treasure trove of meaning.

In mathematics:
the µ-roots of a complex z = a + bi number
the Möbius function in number theory
the integrating factor in ordinary differential equations
the population mean or expected value in probability and statistics
a measure in measure theory
minimalization in computability theory and Recursion theory
the learning rate as used in artificial neural networks

In measurement:
the SI prefix micro-, which represents one millionth, or 10−6.
the micron, an old unit which corresponds to the micrometre (which is now denoted "µm")

In classical physics and engineering:
the coefficient of friction
reduced mass in the two-body problem
linear density or mass per unit length in strings and other one-dimensional objects.
permeability in electromagnetism
dynamic viscosity in fluid mechanics
the amplification factor of a triode vacuum tube

In inorganic chemistry:
the prefix given in IUPAC nomenclature for a bridging ligand.

In particle physics:
the elementary particle called the muon

In Pharmacology:
an important opiate receptor

In thermodynamics:
the chemical potential of a system or component of a system.

In orbital mechanics:
Standard gravitational parameter of a celestial body, the product of the gravitational constant G and the mass M.

In music:
Mu major chord

Also, in Computing, it seems. This is the ancient bit:

Ancient Greek
The word Mu, pronounced /muː/ or /mjuː/ in English, is written μῦ in traditional Greek polytonic orthography. In Modern Greek the ancient version is sometimes written μύ... The letter Mu appears in conjunction with alpha and omega to signify the "beginning, middle (meson) and end", a phrase found in an Orphic verse describing Zeus, and later adopted to describe both JHWH and Jesus.

Aeschylus
In Aeschylus' Eumenides, the repeated moaning of the letter Mu is the sound made by the sleeping Furies as the ghost of Clytemnestra begins to invoke them. It again appears as an ominous mantra in a 10th century Coptic papyrus, containing a Christian injunction against perjurers that invokes the angel Temeluchos:

I adjure you by the seven perfect letters, ΜΜΜΜΜΜΜ. You must appear to him, you must appear to him. I adjure you by the seven angels around the throne of the father.

It was the Orestia Trilogy, not his Eumenides, that grabbed me at the time. And complex numbers.



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