Tim May wrote:
At 7:42 PM + 12/12/00, Ben Laurie wrote:
Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two
points on it" and that is precisely the meaning in general relativity.
No
At 9:48 PM + on 12/11/00, Ben Laurie wrote:
Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two
points on it"
Thank you. It works in all dimensions, and, thus it's topological, right?
Cheers,
RAH
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At 5:56 PM -0500 12/11/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:48 PM + on 12/11/00, Ben Laurie wrote:
Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two
points on it"
Thank you. It works in all dimensions, and, thus it's topological, right?
Topology is typically not
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote:
(RAH might have called it a geodesic political culture if he hadn't got
this strange Marxist idea that politics is just an emergent property of
economics :-)
Just by the way, how widespread is this use of the word 'geodesic'?
Not very, I think. It seems
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, petro wrote:
Mr. Brown (in the library with a candlestick) said:
(RAH might have called it a geodesic political culture if he hadn't got
this strange Marxist idea that politics is just an emergent property of
economics :-)
Just by the way, how widespread is this use of
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At 8:46 AM -0800 on 12/8/00, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Just by the way, how widespread is this use of the word 'geodesic'?
Not especially. :-).
Offhand, I'd refer to many of the things I've seen it used for here
as 'distributed' or 'fractal'. Is 'geodesic'
At 08:46 AM 12/8/00 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, petro wrote:
Mr. Brown (in the library with a candlestick) said:
(RAH might have called it a geodesic political culture if he hadn't got
this strange Marxist idea that politics is just an emergent property of
economics :-)
