I couldn't have said it better myself (generally). Differently, perhaps, but not better.
--Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Robert Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Jack - > First rule of FRIAM: no one talks about specifics. > Second rule of FRIAM: no one talks about specifics > > Robert > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Jack Leibowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> As a new correspondent in the FRIAM family, would someone please explain, >> with specifics, what particular emergent ideas are being referred to in >> the >> paragraph below. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Phil Henshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity >> Coffee Group'" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:17 AM >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies >> >> >> >I guess that's the puzzle, since we can't use triangulation to measure >> > distance for stars we use various corollaries for age to measure >> distance >> > and of distance to measure age, according to the equations that have >> > seemed >> > to make sense so far. That the equations have not been making sense in >> > several ways, like needing the invention of dark energy and dark matter >> to >> > bend them for other discrepancies, is what science keeps doing, adding >> > "epicycles" on old theory until some complete impasse arises... and >> > someone >> > finally has to think up something completely new. If others don't come >> > to >> > the same impasse, like not seeing that emergence *must* be a local >> > individual developmental process and so not asking *how*, no amount of >> > good >> > solutions for the problem will be recognized. >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> >> Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson >> >> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:09 PM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Subject: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies >> >> >> >> Dumb question for you cosmologists to chew over: >> >> >> >> How can they be so far away and yet so young? Or, to put it even >> >> dumber, >> >> are there parts of the Universe that are so far away that they havent >> >> happened yet? >> >> >> >> I guess this is a question about scales of distance vis a vis scales of >> >> time. >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, >> >> Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Friam mailing list >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > End of Friam Digest, Vol 63, Issue 3 >> >> > ************************************ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ============================================================ >> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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