no-one seriously questioned Copernicus, who did not try to get his friend, Pope Urban, to put his stuff into the writ. Galileo would not even reply to a respectful query from Kepler -- talk about your sleepwalkers! Newton merely algebraized Kepler's three orbital constraints, and stole the solution from Hooke, to boot -- on the shoulders of a giant, who was physically a dwarf; hence, the joke

yes, I'd killfile him if I were better equipt; this is a brief detour from avoiding "HSJ: peristalsis occurreth" threads of my own volition, and thank YOU, HSJ, for the label. so, you really didn't bother with the resultage, either, but "student-level" seems to be an over-estimate; if a student actually was interested in numbertheory, all of this would ne'er have existed. oh, but, he's no

still haven't found that quotage. anyway, I should extirpate monsieur Klein's name from Kaluza's, since he is the progenitor of the original "compactified dimensional" scheme.... well, he also gave us hte first funnystring! so, like, was there ever any mention of which dimension was compactified, or is it just/otherwise the same as the other three ... <a-hem> time is NOT a dimension, or

Space998@hotmail.com wrote: I wouldn't shill for any of the popularizers -- except for the one whose book just came out, but I haven't finished reading it at the bookstore -- but the "landscape" is hardly a problem, except of popsci variety. Smolin's argument seems to be quite phoney -- though he has lots of excellent results in math -- when he sets "fruitloops" against "funnystrings"

I wouldn't shill for any of the popularizers -- except for the one whose book just came out, but I haven't finished reading it at the bookstore -- but the "landscape" is hardly a problem, except of popsci variety. Smolin's argument seems to be quite phoney -- though he has lots of excellent results in math -- when he sets "fruitloops" against "funnystrings" e.g. I will try to find the argument