GRGR(17) Hauptstufe! (380.18)

[David Morris]

>From: rj So, as far as gravity's "rainbow" is concerned, the very top of 
>the
>rainbow (arc, rocket path, parabola, whatever) is in the middle, isn't
>it? I'm not a maths genius but if the line is tangential to the parabola
>then if you plot the parabola back to a starting point you would get a
>regular arc (or would you, allowing that the earth's surface itself is
>round?). The "rainbow" is metaphor (it isn't really a parabola of course
>but it is the name of the book and the title does, I think, refer to the
>rocket trajectory as well as whatever else in the text -- "gravity"
>serves as metaphor in the text as well, come to think of it, for the
>entropic decline of civilisations among other things)

Thank you.

Metaphor.  Parable.  Simile.  These are all forms of equations, but they 
need not stay consistent across all dimensions.  They may also be extended 
beyond any experienced world into the projected.  That's what makes all this 
shit so much fun!  Fly with it!

David Morris


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