Smolin's book is an *expose* of the Perimeter Institute;
they're just egging us "good effin lay men" along ... and
they'd like you to join as an "associate member,"
for your frequent trips to meet your cell in Canada.
> Thanks Dr. Smolin !-) &-] *-} %%-^/ #--|
>
> Here are some quotes from your rockin' book and my responses:
thus:
it's been so long, I don't recall what page;
it's just J.Stillwell, _3D Manifolds_, Springer-Verlag, but
there really is nothing more to it, that i recall, since
it's just a topological thing (with no symmetry;
it's a simple diagram).
if you do find it, please tell me what the funny tetrahedron is!
anyway, Bucky's (or an unnamed student's) construction really does
amount to these examples:
you just cut the innertube in the same way, "in half," and
the "MS" turns into a "2-sided strip with a fulltwist;" indeed,
one was ignoring the inside of the MS, qua its thickness. (NB:
not sure what you meant about angle theta going to 3pi.)
Bucky has lots of silly stuff like that, some of which does work.
> The other pictures show a full tube when 0 < th < 4 pi. For example
> when 0 < th < 3 pi there is plenty of common seam length of the twisted
> tube for suturing along the helical partition line.
>> as a "twisted cylinder," though I have seen
thus:
it's often difficult to counterpose ad-hominemania
with logic, grammar & rhetoricum. anyway,
there is obviously more than one "Quincy" in Universe!
thus:
yeah, F it;
the flops are inherently chaotic!
> [an F-90 program]
> which solves the Van der Pol equation with forth order runge-kutta
> method and saves the datas in a .text or .dat file. Tenks...
thus:
so, what is the estimated date of greatcircling,
or what ever?...
it's pretty obvious that peak oil was launched
by the second invasion of Iraq --
that wascawy Hawwy Pottew!...
the USA should clearly have a tarrif on oil, LNG etc.,
if not on electricity, itself, although
that would go against Dubya's policy of *caveat emptor*,
Suckers, and the Protocol of the Elders
of Kyoto [sik] -- which he loveth ... even if
he doesn't know that he doest!
we have very little time,
with such enormous financial leverages,
to actually do anything about it.
>This 6-minute video is about the proposed global energy grid which was
Fuller's highest priority project.
thus:
IEEE-754 was an article in *Computer*, an issue in 1980;
it's variety of implimentation is quite fractal,
as proven by Mandelbrot, when he gave his talk
at Royce Hall!...
there was a later update, like -854 or so. in fact,
Flops are inherently chaotic.
--nerfman!
