TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up

[Madeleine Maudlin]

I love James Clerk Maxwell!

I was just noticing this not an hour ago:

http://atlasobscura.com/place/richat-structure

The explanations are within the parameters of acceptable indoctrinated
scientific discussion.  Vulcano! etc.  But I was wondering if anybody has
noticed how closely it resembles these somewhat recent photos:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034

and

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/cassini20091209.html

Maxwell, following Reimann, venturing into higher dimensions with his
quaternions, hyperspatial aether, I wonder if he worked out the
temperatures around portals such as these?:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia12867.html

All surely foreseen by that great mystic drunk from the northern
territories, Sir Hamilton..


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>wrote:

> Well said. Of course, as one who switched  majors from physical chemistry
> to comparative literature… and then a science writer who kept finding
> mythical narratives deeply embedded in the aseptic official version of
> scientific progress (
> http://www.science20.com/monte_davis/field_james_clerk_maxwell-78111 )...
> I *would* say that, wouldn’t I?****
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> *From:* Alex Colter [mailto:recoignishon at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:25 AM
> *To:* Monte Davis
> *Cc:* alice wellintown; pynchon -l
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> *Subject:* Re: TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up****
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> I am not so sure that Mathematics is being satirized in AtD, I think
> perhaps P. has, since he was a youngun, possessed a very real sort of
> tension between a Mathematical or Thermodynamic World-View, and a more
> romantic Byron-esque World-View... the anxiety between the two and the
> various combats his Psyche engages produce a satirized portrait of Each
> Hemisphere, Literary and Scientific... our P. is both Timothy Tox with his
> Golem & Vaucanson with his Duck, both are, more often than not, invisible.
> ****
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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
> wrote:****
>
> That's remarkably silly even for you.****
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf
> Of alice wellintown
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:56 AM
> To: pynchon -l
> Subject: Re: TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up
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> math is P novels is like physics in the big bang theory tv show.****
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