Posted on 09/14/2006 10:27:24 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
So is Amazon.
Cheers!
I enjoyed Richard Feynman, myself, he wrote so the lay person could comprehend it.
Leaving aside the subject of Quantum Mechanics, I enjoyed also, reading and learning a bit, about fractals.
Fractals are amazing, and when one Journal said that they were studying oatmeal, and didn't elucidate on the oatmeal, I was sort of P'Oed, until, when eating oatmeal the next morning, I intentionally examined the oats and discovered that each oat had the little branch, like a tree, which had a smaller branch and then from that, a smaller, identical branch....
Public libraries are your friend.So is Amazon.
Neither helps for this evening's reading, though...
But, hey, there's world enough, and time...
I switched to this thread from the Mideast daily thread....makes more sense....thanks for posting the article...will read it again tomorrow.
mark for later..
...I intentionally examined the oats and discovered that each oat had the little branch, like a tree, which had a smaller branch and then from that, a smaller, identical branch....
...which for some reason reminds me of this bit of de Morgan doggerel:
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
bump for later read. good article catch.
I love this stuff. Thanks. I hope you will post more...
No, Fractals really are, like that.... they showed coastlines, snowflakes, and talked about the double universe....
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Good article.
I would like to read more of the same caliber.
Thanks for posting it.
As for fractals, you might enjoy this:
Andrei Linde, The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe" (PDF)
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Convenient. It can not, nor will it ever be answered by the mind of man, so "a later time" equates to eternity.
Perhaps it is all as simple as each particle's instantaneous verification with the Will of God. It is an explanation that will remain no further from the truth as any other untestable explanation conceived of by man. It appears there are limits to what we are allowed to know.
To human eyes, too much of light
Is blinding as the blackest night.
And this is so, too, of the mind,
In total ignorance it's blind.
But more truth than it can absorb
Will overwhelm the mental orb.
So, lest our vision burn to ashes
God shows us truth in bits and flashes,
White revelations that the brain
Can comprehend and yet stay sane.
And we, poor fools, demand truth's noon
Who scarce can bear its crescent moon.
-- "White Revelations," by Georgia Starbuck Galbraith.
Parsimony in one's assumptions is a not unworthy aim...
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