Dennis Prager on the Holocaust

2013-03-31 Thread Roger Clough
"What do you mean you can't believe in God after the Holocaust ? Can you believe in HUMANITY after the Holocaust ?" Dennis Prager (a Jewish conservative) Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 3/31/2013 http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Mar 2013, at 01:15, Joseph Knight wrote: Sorry for the vagueness of my question; I would not count pi as a physical constant. I would count the empirically determined circumference:diameter ratio for a circle in our observed curved spacetime as a physical constant. The reason I ask

Re: Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 Joseph Knight wrote: > True or False: COMP implies that any fundamental physical constant is non > computable? I still don't know exactly what "COMP" means but about 1860 Maxwell computed the speed of light and that is certainly a fundamental constant, not only that but hi

Re: "Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down."

2013-03-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Mar 2013, at 13:58, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, March 28, 2013 5:52:04 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:03:27 PM UTC-4, telmo_

Re: "Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down."

2013-03-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Mar 2013, at 14:19, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, March 30, 2013 7:08:25 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Mar 2013, at 13:31, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 29, 2013 6:28:02 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Mar 2013, at 20:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thur

Re: Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread meekerdb
On 3/31/2013 7:16 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 Joseph Knight > wrote: > True or False: COMP implies that any fundamental physical constant is non computable? I still don't know exactly what "COMP" means but about 1860 Maxwell computed the spee

Re: Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Mar 2013, at 16:16, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 Joseph Knight wrote: > True or False: COMP implies that any fundamental physical constant is non computable? I still don't know exactly what "COMP" means It is the hypothesis that there is a level of description of your

Re: Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Mar 2013, at 18:03, meekerdb wrote: On 3/31/2013 7:16 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 Joseph Knight wrote: > True or False: COMP implies that any fundamental physical constant is non computable? I still don't know exactly what "COMP" means but about 1860 Maxwell compu

Re: "Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down."

2013-03-31 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2013, at 13:58, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > >> >> >> On Thursday, March 28, 2013 5:52:04 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:29 P

Re: Quick question

2013-03-31 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:16 PM, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 Joseph Knight wrote: > >> > True or False: COMP implies that any fundamental physical constant is >> > non computable? > > > I still don't know exactly what "COMP" means but about 1860 Maxwell computed > the speed of light

Re: "Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down."

2013-03-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 31, 2013 10:59:22 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 30 Mar 2013, at 14:19, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Saturday, March 30, 2013 7:08:25 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 29 Mar 2013, at 13:31, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, March 29, 2013 6:28:02