TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up

Bekah bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 31 20:35:25 CDT 2012


Whilst we are digressing, has anyone other than mysel read From Eternity To Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll?  Good book, well written, fascinating subject.

http://tinyurl.com/ygoj76t

or:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703436504574640151374207392.html

Bek


On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love James Clerk Maxwell!
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> 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:
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> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034
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> and
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> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/cassini20091209.html
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> 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
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> All surely foreseen by that great mystic drunk from the northern territories, Sir Hamilton..
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> 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:
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> That's remarkably silly even for you.
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> Of alice wellintown
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> 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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