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To: snarks_when_bored

many often forget or fail to understand that order and disorder can be simply a matter of scale.

a large sample of "randomly" moving molecules produces a statistically predicatable order as an aggregate body.

large samples of such large samples - themselves orderly - can in the aggregate display "random" behavior and interaction.


407 posted on 09/09/2005 12:30:13 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: King Prout

Yes, good point about scaling.


408 posted on 09/09/2005 12:33:26 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: Dawsonville_Doc; RadioAstronomer

awww CRAP.

I just realised that there is indeed reason to suspect a beginning event (or non-continuous/punctuated replenishment event) for the current cycle of the universe.

stellar hydrogen consumption and lack of continuous hydrogen replenishment matching that consumption provides an inescapable timeline.

damn.


409 posted on 09/09/2005 12:45:46 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: King Prout

Every large random aggregate contains many small ordered aggrates.


416 posted on 09/09/2005 1:49:06 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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