Even NASA knows. Or Esp NASA knows.

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, more likely, I'm sure...but

I keep thinking he did so much with it in GR, as you are always saying, so
much he did not have to do by simply knowing it,
it becomes a structuring motif almost--as I does in Dante.

But, only he knows.



On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 6:55 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe. Also, any engineering student would know the conic sections -- and
> anyone with P's obvious intellectual omnivory would have registered the
> "magic" of the Greeks categorizing them... then  ~1500 years of desultory
> poking around their mathematical properties... then wowie zowie, from
> Kepler on they turn out to describe/predict all kinds of motion.
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 6:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Monte,
>>
>> Somehow, fully sea-changed, not in any match-up correspondence way, don't
>> you think Tom had all that circular
>> design architecture from Dante's Comedia swirling around inside so he
>> could keep thinking conically, so to speak?
>> Possibly, unproveably but in much likelihood?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. Every time through GR, I find more variant riffs on the conic
>>> sections (point, line, circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola) and a thousand
>>> kinds of literal and metaphoric "movement." More often than not, cyclic
>>> progressions -- the circle that the rainbow would be if it were not cut off
>>> by the horizon, Saturn's ever-so-slightly-elliptical rings -- are good.
>>>
>>> Interrupted ones -- the parabolic rocket trajectory which yearns to be
>>> an orbit or escape, but runs into a target first -- not so much.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 3:29 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia22418/gravity-s-rainbow
>>>> --
>>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>