RE: In one page or less

2001-09-12 Thread Hal Ruhl
At 9/13/01, you wrote: >Yes, words like "alternation" and "succession" definitely imply that time >is involved. But you are saying that this is a timeless >construct (like Platonia of the multiverse) ? > >Charles Time as I understand the usual usage involves the concepts of fixed cycles measur

RE: In one page or less

2001-09-12 Thread Charles Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: Hal Ruhl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2001 4:35 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: In one page or less > > > Dear Charles: > > In response to another of your comments and to clarify: > &

RE: In one page or less

2001-09-12 Thread Hal Ruhl
Dear Charles: In response to another of your comments and to clarify: > >If nothing exists, including any external time, then the > > Everything (also > > >known as "the Plenitude", perhaps) contains all available > > >states as a fixed N-dimensional structure (N might well be > > uncountable >

RE: In one page or less

2001-09-12 Thread Hal Ruhl
t;It would certainly be difficult to try to define for how long nothing exists! > >Charles > > > -Original Message- > > From: Hal Ruhl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2001 3:53 p.m. > > To: Charles Goodwin > > Subject: RE: In one p

RE: In one page or less

2001-09-12 Thread Charles Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: Hal Ruhl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >I think I get it. If nothing exists, that is a state which contains some > >information (i.e. "nothing exists"). To reduce the total > >information content of the system to zero, the state of nothing existing > >must be

RE: In one page or less

2001-09-12 Thread Charles Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: Hal Ruhl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > 2) The "Nothing" contains at least some information: Whenever it is manifest any >question asking if it is manifest must receive the response "yes". > >I don't understand this bit at all, sorry! > > The idea here i

RE: In one page or less

2001-09-12 Thread Hal Ruhl
At 9/13/01, you wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Hal Ruhl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > This is a simple and short effort to present my current > > ideas. To aid > > communication it is not intended to follow an established means of > > mathematical expression. I am completel

RE: In one page or less

2001-09-12 Thread Charles Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: Hal Ruhl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > This is a simple and short effort to present my current > ideas. To aid > communication it is not intended to follow an established means of > mathematical expression. I am completely out of time so I > hope it reads ok