From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue 27 Jul 2004 - 15:07:47 GMT
--- Scott Chase <osteopilus@yahoo.com> wrote: >
> I'll have to look into it, yet somewhere in the
> large
> part of my post you snipped I made allowances for
> modest, short-term predictions. Now how well does
> this
> stuff hold up in the case of an unforeseen Mule? If
> we
> were to use chaos maths, evolutionary algorithms and
> big computers with CRM systems loaded in, could we
> go
> back in time, say to when there were dinosaurs and
> *predicted* the actual impact and subsequent effects
> of an asteroid?
I snip for brevity, I hate long posts....anyway, I
thought it was implicit in your discussion that the
"Mule" - aka a major discontinuity like an asteroid
etc - knocks any form of predictive maths off its
perch. The ongoing series is how the Foundation tries
to rescue the situation....but then I'd give the plot
away if I went farther.
Alan
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