Um yeah. This has been detrimental to my own work, as comparisons have
been drawn.
I have asked Joe Michael about these things
>>but have not yet got an answer.
I wouldn't hold my breath. There is also a 'Stellar Drive" at the site that purports to
exploit a "little known flaw" in Maxwell's Equations...
>>Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension!
>
>I agree that there are a huge number of details to be worked out- a lot
>would depnd on how self contained you coudl make these things, as well as
>the scale you could make them at.. And the site certainly does send the
>hype-meter way over into the red. I'm not about to send this guy any money
>(even if I had it..heh), but I think the basic idea of these cubes which can
>organize themselves is a very poweful one. In fact I've started working
>this morning on a program to simulate the idea and see what I can get them
>to do with a few basic rules.
I published a paper in an IEEE Proceedings on CA modeling of these structures.
I'll put it on my website pretty soon.
As I've said, I have no idea how original
>this all is- in fact it seems almost impossible that Robodyne is the
>originator of the concept....
I am not sure if Joe Michael (he is essentially Robodyne) thought it up
independently or not (nor do I care). See the "Me n Joe" post.
Forrest Bishop
IASE
http://www.speakeasy.org/~forrestb