Rainbow & Parabola (was NP)

Joseph S. Barrera III joe at barrera.org
Sat Jul 24 17:32:42 CDT 2004


Dave Monroe wrote:

> > Earth's orbit around the Sun is a circular gravity's rainbow.
>
>  Well, no, I'll let the Wonder from Down Under remind us all of
>  Kepler's Laws et al. here. Nonetheless, poetic license, figures of
>  speech, tropes, whatever ...

Yeah, I know, it's a fuckin' elipse, but it's MOSTLY circular.

Of course brownian motion and quantum mechanics and the
n-body problem means that nothing is a perfect euclidian shape.
Including the damn optical rainbow.

How about: they're both curved?

- Joe




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