Jonathan wrote:
Comments and criticism welcome.
Uncle Al's new bull**** meters have their dials buffered in heavy
mineral oil.
It should be obvious to most the defining role that
inverse square relationships play in the physical
universe.
Doesn't work for magnetic dipoles, power lines, capacitor plates,
lasers, Casimir effect, Strong force, Weak force... artillery shells,
rain. Tell us about Brownian motion, Fickian diffusion, and 3-D
random walk.
And of the intuitive picture that the
larger the mass, the larger it's gravity well or
basin of attraction.
Neutron stars are about 15 miles in diameter, 1.8x10^11 surface gees.
Compare the masses, diameters, and gravitations of Jupiter and Saturn.
So that any random path through
space is more likely to find itself pulled into the
larger gravity well, than the smaller one.
Hyperbolic orbits, gravitational slingshots.
Another inverse square law, the power law, has an
equally dominant role in ...living systems.
BULL****. Animal basal metabolism is proportional to 3/4 power of
body mass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law
In that
the higher the fitness peak, the larger it's basin
of attraction. So that any random path through
possibility space is more likely to be attracted
to the higher fitness peak, than a smaller one.
And the system hill-climbs.
BULL****. Regression toward the mean. Human evolution vs. slums and
Third World garbage midden countries. Gresham's Law. Washington, DC.
Power Law
"Power-law relations characterize a staggering number
of naturally occurring phenomena,
[snip pontification]
Oh, wow - a proponent of Zipf's law. Power laws indicate networks.
The source of all order, then, is the critical interaction
between quantum-like and classical-like behavior.
Where both are intractably entangled so that one
can't tell which dominates the system behavior.
BULL****. If the universe is not reductionist then it can be modeled
by reductionist propositions but not accurately modeled by
reductionist propositions.
pookie pookie
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Uncle Al
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