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Article #632733Re: Colors of Infinity
From: gm... G. Mark Stewart
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 00:00
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Wolfgang Schwanke (wo...@berlin.snafu.de) wrote: : >David B. Greene (da...@sendnomailto.halcyon.com) wrote: : >: What I wonder is, can the Mandelbrot set really be called something that : >: has always existed, as though it were part of the fabric of the universe, : Well no, it's mathematics. : Mathematics is a made up set of rules. Made up by humans. : It's not intrinsic to the universe. : Many people tend to forget that, because math makes a damn good : model of the universe (it was designed to do so). Yeah, which becomes pretty evident when the essential digital nature of the universe is approximated with the coninuous model and we end up with nasty crap boundary conditions like Zeno's Pardox. GMS http://www.svs.com/users/gmark
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From: gm...@grayfox.svs.com (G. Mark Stewart) Subject: Re: Colors of Infinity Date: 1997/06/09 Message-ID: <5nfo03$hai$12@brownfox.svs.com> X-Deja-AN: 247173053 References: <5n80rs$c8$1@brokaw.wa.com> <5naqs1$5of$3@brownfox.svs.com> <5nf4qm$p4t$1@unlisys.unlisys.net> Followup-To: rec.org.mensa,alt.pagan,sci.skeptic,sci.math,comp.misc,sci.physics,alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.computers,talk.religion.misc,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.atheism,alt.christnet,seattle.general Organization: Sun Valley SoftWare Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa,alt.pagan,sci.skeptic,sci.math,comp.misc,sci.physics,alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.computers,talk.religion.misc,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.atheism,alt.christnet,seattle.general MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit