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-Original Message-
From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:23 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] idle questions while in self-
Steve and Dave
Having interacted and participated in earlier versions of Tyringham back in
the 70's (when I was a mere child)--memorable gatherings at Hazel
Henderson's place in Princeton, and later Lindisfarne meetings--I decided
that nothing much was going to happen after these exciting meetings
But there really are no stupid questions. An answer like "you're not allowed to
ask" doesn't help. A better answer would be an explanation of undefined terms
and how they impact the body of theory. A good example is division by 0. We're
taught (in what? elementary school?) that the sentence c/0
Dave -
Your list of idle questions represents *quite a span*.
And I thought *I* was prone to flying off (thinking about and sharing)
in all directions at once!
There is at least one "great american novel" in there... and maybe a few
alternate histories or closer to Gibson's recent pair (Peripher
thanks, that brought back a conversation I had with him on this topic. It has
to do with frames of reference being relative. Absent a universal constant
frame of reference, you cannot ask "from whence" or "where to" in any
meaningful way.
davew
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, at 12:44 PM, Frank Wimberl
Cosmology: globally speaking, everything is moving away from everything
else. I asked Hywel can't you extrapolate backwards and determine the
location of the "big bang". He said, "You're not allowed to ask that
question". Is/was he an anti-realist?
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Frank C. Wimberly
505 670-9918
Santa Fe,
After two weeks in isolation in Holland, I returned to the U.S. Friday for two
more weeks of isolation on the mountain in Utah. Because of possible exposure
while traveling will get tested tomorrow or Wednesday - give the bug a chance
to become detectable. Still convinced there is far less to fe
