GR translation: shearing alongside for miles

[Monte Davis]

Thanks for the insight.

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:54 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not to kill this buzz, but P's pornagraphy of flight was about the
> infinitely smaller approximations that measured and predicted a flight
> trajectory ruled by Gravity.  As I remember, the slicing of reality, Delta
> Ts,  into measured moments, and eventually,  potentially,artificially
> reproduced phenomenon, as in a film projection, or a programmed human, was
> what he meant by pornography in GR: was that Algebra or Trig? In P's world,
> analysis is a degrading process, a pornography born of our fatal need to
> CONTROL.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 7:55 PM Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Only if you're perverted enough to imagine the air sliding delicately
>> around the thrusting fuselage, trailing languidly over the sensuous curve
>> of the airfoil, forming tickling little whorls in every declivity. I
>> couldn't possibly comment.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 9:47 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 'I may be stretching here, but I wouldn't put it past P. to have in mind
>>> that the whole picture of successive sliding layers -- foundation of
>>> aerodynamics for  decades before 1945 -- is a *fiction* for mathematical
>>> tractability'
>>>
>>> is that partly what the 'pornography of flight' is possibly alluding to,
>>> Monte?
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ​Closest to "wind shear" in meteorology or aviation: notional layers of
>>>> a fluid (gas or liquid) moving adjacent to each other at different
>>>> velocities, with momentum transferred more or less smoothly between them at
>>>> the interface -- turbulence arises (i.e. the layers mix and tangle into
>>>> vortices) if the velocity difference is too great. (For me, this also harks
>>>> back to Achtfaden & co. and the "boundary layer" at the skin of an A4 as it
>>>> moves through the air.) The same applies to convection currents in a heated
>>>> cauldron: look at a patch of oil or fat sliding across the surface.
>>>>
>>>> I may be stretching here, but I wouldn't put it past P. to have in mind
>>>> that the whole picture of successive sliding layers -- foundation of
>>>> aerodynamics for  decades before 1945 -- is a *fiction* for mathematical
>>>> tractability, the reality being uncountable gas molecules moving with all
>>>> speeds and velocities in all directions, the layers emerging only as
>>>> statistics. Maybe there's a hint that the tribal/ethnic labels are also
>>>> fictions? That after their near-death experience as victims of abstraction
>>>> and systematization, the "Czechs" and "Slovaks" streaming along side by
>>>> side might be better off as individual I and Thou?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway... look back to your Peenemunde passages, and if possible
>>>> translate "shearing" with a technical flavor, maybe whatever a Chinese
>>>> weather forecaster uses for "wind shear"
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Mike Jing <
>>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> V549.28-36, P559.5-13   . . . Sudetens and East Prussians shuttling
>>>>> between Berlin and the DP camps in Mecklenburg, Czechs and Slovaks, Croats
>>>>> and Serbs, Tosks and Ghegs, Macedonians, Magyars, Vlachs, Circassians,
>>>>> Spaniols, Bulgars stirred and streaming over the surface of the Imperial
>>>>> cauldron, colliding, shearing alongside for miles, sliding away, numb,
>>>>> indifferent to all momenta but the deepest, the instability too far below
>>>>> their itchy feet to give a shape to, white wrists and ankles incredibly
>>>>> wasted poking from their striped prison-camp pajamas, footsteps light as
>>>>> waterfowl’s in this inland dust . . .
>>>>>
>>>>> What does "shearing" mean here?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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