I have mixed feelings about this park. The trails have a lot of rocks and exposed roots which can make hiking unpleasant. In addition while you are walking up a mountain (or what in New Jersey passes for a mountain) with several hundred feet of elevation gain the area is heavily wooded so for the most part the views aren't very good. There is one exception, a natural gas pipeline cuts through the park and the right of way has been cleared of trees. This leads to some good views including one on a clear day of the New York City skyline which is about 40 miles away.
Referring to the trail map linked above starting from right-hand-side of the parking lot the skyline view can reached by following the trails through the points labelled 1,2,3,C,4,5. Then looking downhill on a clear day the NYC skyline can be seen from the right-hand-side of the cleared area where the bench is. It is on the horizon beyond the nearby white domed building. It is then an easy albeit a little steep in places walk down the pipeline cut back to the parking lot (through locations labelled C,13,TH).
I took photo Sunday, May 7, from near the bench. I used a cheap Canon camera which does however have a telephoto lens. Photos taken using my phone or my camera without using the telephoto feature didn't show the skyline very well. The photo is about what you can see with the naked eye. I also had a pair of binoculars which gave a better view. The big tall building above the center of the white dome is One World Trade Center (aka the Freedom Tower). This was a relatively clear day, I have been there on two other days when the skyline was just an indistinct smudge on the horizon although still visible if you knew exactly where to look.
Do you know what the white dome is?
ReplyDeleteMore importantly - belated congrats! I just followed a link to the Wikipedia article on Shearer’s inequality, and see that it was indeed your work. *And*, I got there by reading (ok, mostly staring at) a recent Terry Tao blog post on the adjoint Brascamp-Lieb inequality, in which he mentions yielding your inequality as one of its applications.
Math has an almost(?) unique permanence so I was going to close by asking you how it feels to be immortal. Then I realized you likely just agree with Woody Allen, whose take is below.
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
I believe the white dome is the "Iron Peak Sports Bubble" which is just a couple of miles away.
ReplyDeleteThanks for mentioning the wikipedia article which I was unaware of. It is sort of nice to see such an article. Hopefully wikipedia will not purge it as being insufficiently important which they sometimes do.
As for immortality I do agree with Allen although I would add a good health caveat.