[FRIAM] comments this weekend by Rich Murray and Dennis Cox on Guest Blog at cosmictusk.com -- evidence in Santa Fe for vertical ablation from ice comet fragment air bursts: Rich Murray 2010.07.18

comments this weekend by Rich Murray and Dennis Cox on Guest Blog at cosmictusk.com -- evidence in Santa Fe for vertical ablation from ice comet fragment air bursts: Rich Murray 2010.07.18 http://cosmictusk.com/guest-blog-a-catastrophist-manifesto-from-johan-bert-kloosterman/comment-page-1#comm

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

It's in Cosmides and Tooby, THE ADAPTED MIND. When you find my damned copy, send it back to me. Nick -Original Message- >From: lrudo...@meganet.net >Sent: Jul 18, 2010 6:21 AM >To: Russell Standish , friam@redfish.com >Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force > >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

Imagine that you have a single stick. It is flat on a table and pointing directly away from you--like a knife when sitting down to dinner. Now rotate the table about the axis of that stick. The table now intersect the original plane of the table at a right angle. But the original stick will still b

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Ted Carmichael wrote: I agree with the comments on the psychology/perception issue. But I don't agree with this: "So no matter which bisecting plane through the sphere we examine, it will always have more sticks parallel to it than to the orthogonal pole. S

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > Hey Roger, Your posts inspired me to track you down a bit. Nice website (The > Entropy Liberation Front ). Not many posts, though. > You should post more. I like your Puzzle Earth . > Very nice--

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

Hey Roger, Your posts inspired me to track you down a bit. Nice website (The Entropy Liberation Front ). Not many posts, though. You should post more. I like your Puzzle Earth . Very nice--except that the cursor doesn't always grab what it should. --

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Ted Carmichael wrote: > I agree with the comments on the psychology/perception issue. But I don't > agree with this: > > "So no matter which bisecting plane through the sphere we examine, it will > always have more sticks parallel to it than to the orthogonal po

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

I agree with the comments on the psychology/perception issue. But I don't agree with this: "So no matter which bisecting plane through the sphere we examine, it will always have more sticks parallel to it than to the orthogonal pole. So this actually explains a "planar force". There more horizo

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

Lee, True, but I was thinking projective geometry rather than a psychology of appearances. Grant the arbitrariness of "horizontal" and "vertical", let us assume the ground is a flat plane that is easy to reference these terms to. If we fix a midpoint on the stick, there there will be a plane that

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Ted Carmichael wrote: > Russ, I don't get this at all. Two points: > > 1) There are an infinite number of ways that a line can be parallel to a > plane; there is exactly one way it can be perpendicular to the plane. Is > that the point? > > 2) The degree of orie

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

Russ, I don't get this at all. Two points: 1) There are an infinite number of ways that a line can be parallel to a plane; there is exactly one way it can be perpendicular to the plane. Is that the point? 2) The degree of orientation around the X and the Y axises don't have anything to do with

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 08:57:42PM -0400, lrudo...@meganet.net wrote: > > > > Shephard points out (in his paper speculating on why > > humans have a 3D color space) that for terrestrial > > animals (at least, ones that live above the scale > > where things like surface tension of water and >