sorta TRP: Cosmic indecision..a kind of anti-binary reductionism, ala TRP is anti-entropic and may have created the universe!, so to speak...

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Thu May 20 21:15:14 CDT 2010


Ian Livingston wrote:
>I'm still trying to warp my meddling mind around this. I am fascinated
>by physics, but pretty much all of it is beyond my capacity to grok,
>really. Oscillating in the trillions makes me woozy even before you
>add the "per second" part. Doesn't that violate some sort of cosmic
>speed limit? And what about the states between matter and anti-matter?
>. . .
We seem to have no better intuitive understanding of physics than the 
people of Aristotle's time. No need for trippy modern physics since 
we don't even have a handle on the old physics. Everything serves as 
a metaphor--especially on the P-list. There is enormous resistance to 
mathematics here in addition to shining on any understanding of 
entropy which does lack an intuitive handle. Only mathematics works 
and that may only be because looking at the world through blues 
glasses causes the world to look blue. (R W Hamming). 




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