Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA22571 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 2 May 2002 15:35:38 +0100 Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 07:30:45 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: future language To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3CD14D95.9BE3301A@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en,ja References: <20020501183443.7756.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Trupeljak,
> > Prediction of, say, the motions of the planets is different because
> > one can predict the position of the planets with accuracy.
>
> Nope. Anyone who has ever been involved in orbital mechanics of the
> asteroid watchers, or modelling the moons and rings of Saturn and
> Jupiter, is going to tell you that this is again just a question of
> timescale. Quite a few bodies in our system exhibit chaotic behavior.
Indeed, the whole solar system is chaotic. This was proved in the 90s.
As you say, it is a question of time scale. :-)
Best,
Bill
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