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Author Topic:   Black Holes, Singularities, Confusion
Brad McFall
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Message 37 of 60 (351565)
09-23-2006 10:19 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by cavediver
09-23-2006 5:54 AM


Re: more Questions..
That's what I thought of too as a teen-ager and my brother who now teaches thermo was eight. I guess it is just the difference of generations. He was thinking of StarWars
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& WormHoles. I passed that by with BattleStar Galatica.
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He however still thinks about intricate computer games and hikes in the Alps. I do not or can not. On reading Rene Thom about morphogenesis and singularities even the "thought" expts of Einstein remained somewhat fictional to me.
Worm holes etc were science fiction enough for me not to go further than a cursory interest in Penrose, etc. until I heard by how much a Romance Studies Professor at Cornell was intriqued and enamoured of Hawking's book on Time. I do need to catch up on some ideas in physics.

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Brad McFall
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Message 53 of 60 (352437)
09-26-2006 5:04 PM
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09-26-2006 6:19 AM


Re: more Questions..
Gladyshev had tried to relate "Penrose" to his ideas on how "math" relates between macrothermodynamics (linearly) and quantum mechanics.
I was tempted to take on that road but I have tended to think older texts like Dirac's would do better for me. I have a very curious idea about "microtubules" and "the central dogma of molecular biology" which is independent of Penroses' and it is probably that rather that kept me from buying "The Road to Reality." Thus, I already recognized that no matter what "road" denoted It was already some actual road and thus I would not learn that. The road was simply what Georgi wrote as "building" to me from Moscow.

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