TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up

[Madeleine Maudlin]

How have I come to see the relevance here?

What a wonderful question, Alex, thank you.

"...for He hath weighed the world in the balance..."

Ever wonder how the Sumerians, Alex, and the people of Avebury, when you
really look at it, they knew the actual correct physical weight of the
world?

Ever thought about how so much of the Old Testament is based on Sumerian
legends?


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 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?****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> *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****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> ****
>>>
>>> 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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