Comments on: Thought I ought to mention… http://listics.com/200911225123 The Internet has a great future behind it... --Jon Crowcroft Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:31:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: fp http://listics.com/200911225123/comment-page-1#comment-64572 fp Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:26:24 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5123#comment-64572 I had you read that crap so I wouldn't have to. I had you read that crap so I wouldn’t have to.

]]> By: Don Harvey http://listics.com/200911225123/comment-page-1#comment-64570 Don Harvey Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:06:11 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5123#comment-64570 I read a little of the Dawn of Space and Time site. As near as I can figure out somebody fused the Journal of Almost Science with the New Age Bible and stirred in a few spare tiles from Scrabble, the Dianetics edition. Talk about torturing whimsy into fact! Frank, I was worried you were working too hard but now I'm thinking you've got way too much time on your hands. I read a little of the Dawn of Space and Time site. As near as I can figure out somebody fused the Journal of Almost Science with the New Age Bible and stirred in a few spare tiles from Scrabble, the Dianetics edition. Talk about torturing whimsy into fact! Frank, I was worried you were working too hard but now I’m thinking you’ve got way too much time on your hands.

]]> By: Don Harvey http://listics.com/200911225123/comment-page-1#comment-64568 Don Harvey Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:45:16 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5123#comment-64568 In other words the universe remains queerer than we understand. And may indeed be queerer than we can understand. Whatever. Thanks for all the fish. In other words the universe remains queerer than we understand. And may indeed be queerer than we can understand. Whatever. Thanks for all the fish.

]]> By: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/200911225123/comment-page-1#comment-64566 Frank Paynter Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:42:36 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5123#comment-64566 madame l, Thank you for visiting! I've been puzzling over that quotation for the last few days and I remain baffled. As a sober man of science myself--and a godless socialist to boot--I can affirm that most of us are saying less than <em>the universe sprang from nothing for no reason</em>. Really, for all we know the universe sprang from wave forms we could call the zings and the zongs, sprang forth in some macroatomic gravitometric context for the sole purpose of generating an infinite number of Buckaroo Banzai spin-offs in Bollywood. The how and the why of things are hard to pin down. Whether we are looking back 15 billion years or forward twenty-four hours, there are event horizons that obscure our vision, singularities in our models that may imply the existence of a void, or perhaps the zings and the zongs somehow emerge dominant at either end. The challenge is to build a better inference engine to determine these things. I never knew a person who sought just one free miracle. We mostly ask for all the cake we can eat! Peering Brane-less through the Window Pain :-) madame l,
Thank you for visiting! I’ve been puzzling over that quotation for the last few days and I remain baffled. As a sober man of science myself–and a godless socialist to boot–I can affirm that most of us are saying less than the universe sprang from nothing for no reason. Really, for all we know the universe sprang from wave forms we could call the zings and the zongs, sprang forth in some macroatomic gravitometric context for the sole purpose of generating an infinite number of Buckaroo Banzai spin-offs in Bollywood. The how and the why of things are hard to pin down. Whether we are looking back 15 billion years or forward twenty-four hours, there are event horizons that obscure our vision, singularities in our models that may imply the existence of a void, or perhaps the zings and the zongs somehow emerge dominant at either end. The challenge is to build a better inference engine to determine these things.

I never knew a person who sought just one free miracle. We mostly ask for all the cake we can eat!

Peering Brane-less through the Window Pain

:-)

]]> By: madame l. http://listics.com/200911225123/comment-page-1#comment-64561 madame l. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:10:29 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5123#comment-64561 <i>The sober men of science are saying the universe sprang from nothing for no reason. This is the limit test for credulity! Science is saying give us one free miracle and we'll explain the rest. I'll take mine at the end, thank you.</i> Having Archaic and Eating it Too :) The sober men of science are saying the universe sprang from nothing for no reason. This is the limit test for credulity! Science is saying give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest. I’ll take mine at the end, thank you.

Having Archaic and Eating it Too

:)

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