TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up

[Alex Colter]

Funny, how easily we Wander off-topic... or else neglect to properly state
how we came upon a current thought-process...
Interesting, Madeleine, but how have you come to see the relevance here?
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love James Clerk Maxwell!
>
> I was just noticing this not an hour ago:
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> http://atlasobscura.com/place/richat-structure
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> 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
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> 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?:
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> 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
>>
>> *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.****
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>
>> math is P novels is like physics in the big bang theory tv show.****
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