RE: Ground-breaking work in understanding of time

From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 11:54:01 MDT

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    From what I gathered solely from that web page,
    he's arguing that calculus is the equivalent of broken,
    in that there is no such physical analogue as a time slice
    in relation to objects in motion. That would include digitization
    as well.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
    On Behalf Of Giu1i0 Pri5c0
    Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:53 AM
    To: extropians@extropy.org
    Subject: Re: Ground-breaking work in understanding of time

    When this was announced a few days ago I was curious, so I downloaded
    both papers of Lynds are read them. Perhaps I did not understand
    anything of what he is trying to say, but I was not impressed. It seems
    to me that he is assuming from the very beginning what he wants to
    prove, and that he is not explaining why the standard view of these
    things (that we learn in first year calculus) is wrong.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "randy" <cryofan@mylinuxisp.com>
    To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 2:16 PM
    Subject: Re: Ground-breaking work in understanding of time

    > On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 12:19:52 +1000, you wrote:
    >
    > >At 03:53 PM 7/31/03 -0700, Jeff wrote:
    > >
    > >>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/icc-gwi072703.php
    > >
    > >I see that this poorly written and somewhat Sokal-like piece of fluff

    > >is attributed to a PR agent:
    > >
    > >Brooke.Jones@australia.edu
    > > Independent Communications Consultant
    > >
    > >< "Naturally the parameter and boundary of their respective position
    > >and magnitude are naturally determinable up to the limits of possible

    > >measurement as stated by the general quantum hypothesis and
    > >Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, but this indeterminacy in precise

    > >value is not a consequence of quantum uncertainty. What this
    > >illustrates is that in relation to indeterminacy in precise physical
    > >magnitude, the micro and macroscopic are inextricably linked, both
    > >being a part of the same
    parcel,
    > >rather than just a case of the former underlying and contributing to
    > >the latter." >
    > >
    > >Naturally. Yeep.
    > >
    > >Damien Broderick
    >
    > Slashdot discussion on this:
    >
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/029213&mode=thread&thά
    id=1
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    >
    >
    > -------------
    > -Randy
    >
    >



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