I love computers. Look at this motion. It could be how the surface of a very high frequency geodesic sphere might look as waves of energy travel through it. ...
Lou wrote: " a fish couldn't name the 7 seas but knows alot about the ocean..." Jim Lehman wrote: "Now...how to build this into our educational system." John...
John Braley
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May 1, 2002 9:22 pm
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... Doesn't work. True that for omnitriangulated structures you have N:F:E = 1:2:3 where N = what Bucky calls 'non-polar vertexes' = V-2. So if you know V,...
Dick, sometimes I think you've hacked into my machine. About 75% of the urls you've posted at Synergeo have been ones I'd already visited and bookmarked. (The...
John Braley
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May 1, 2002 9:58 pm
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... Webster: "To have understanding of or skill in as a result of study or experience..." However, Webster also says of KNOWS: "in Biblical and legal useage,...
From: "John Braley" ... Can a dragonfly "know?" Does a worm "know?" If you have a book full of accurate information, does the book "know?" Do computers...
From: "lougeller2002" ... "Science" -- from Latin, "scire" : "to know." If one decides to conflate "instinct" --genetic programming-- with "knowing," then...
... Fish don't "study." Their "experience" is also limited; learning (a form of recorded experience) does not "stick" very well in fish --or in most other ...
John Brawley wrote: "(Anthropomorphism isn't a good thing to be teaching our kids.)" Quick, sloppy thinking wouldn't be a good thing to teach our kids, either....
John Braley
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May 2, 2002 3:45 am
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David Chako had written: " The icosahedron, like all regular or semi-regular solids other than the tetrahedron, is mapped back onto itself via central...
John Braley
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May 2, 2002 6:10 am
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... From: "John Braley" <tau@...> To: <synergeo@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [synergeo] re:synergetics as...
... Yeah, Jim. I'm beginning to understand what your curvy models are about, I think. If there are no straight lines, then why do we keep using them in our...
... But, two things. As n increase, the difference between the the areas of triangles decreases, as long as the shell is in its least energy state, at ...
... I think this is correct. ... Also true. He was focussed on inside-outing, not central point inversion. He had a way of conceptualizing a tetrahedron...
... Note that to disagree with it, as a philosophy, is different from saying it's not a philosophy to begin with -- you're moving on to a new thread here. ... ...
... Still not clear if we're excluding omnitriangulated polyhedra that aren't like high frequency icosaspheres. Can I just omnitriangulate a pentagonal...
<JB>
> I seem to recall that early on in your posts to Synergeo you said you wer= e a
> newcomer to sphere packing. You pretty quickly started making...
... I disagree of course. I don't think the word "know" ever came on the scene with all these strings attached binding it to genetics or science. When I say...
... I am excluding them. The spheres I am talking about can have any number if vertexes and the strut lengths of this sphere are as near to the same lengths as...
... From: "dick_fischbeck" ... could ... Models: types: basic : Most imaginably basic/simple/small -- can have straight intervals (note: not "lines," intervals...
... (JB) ... Found (Tungsten), but not with "A15 tetrahedron" (quotes included) -- Google turns up nothing, on the exact phrase. Without the quotes, it turns...
... Right, and I'm saying that's wherein meaning arises. No need to clear it with the experts. If you're understood by the people you're talking to, that's...
