Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: Kevin Aylward (salesEXTRACT_at_anasoft.co.uk)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:08:32 GMT

John Fields wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:55:11 GMT, "Kevin Aylward"
> <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> John Fields wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:05:22 +0000, John Woodgate
>>> <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I read in sci.electronics.design that John Fields
>>>> <jfields@austininstrum ents.com> wrote (in
>>>> <ue4lv01fl22is149t831nus45049ksn66n@4ax.com>) about 'Peterson's
>>>> Death Sentence', on Fri, 28 Jan 2005:
>>>>
>>>>> Something like that. The rainbow analogy may be a little strained
>>>>> unless you consider the colors as an array of discrete
>>>>> wavelengths,
>>>>
>>>> That seems to me to be completely backwards. The *colour* doesn't
>>>> look like discrete wavelengths; it looks like a continuum. Same
>>>> with consciousness, unless you define it in such a way that it's
>>>> limited to Homo sapiens.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Yes, that's the point I was trying to make. That "color", even
>>> though it may _look_ like a countinuum, really isn't,
>>
>> Yes it is. Dah...colour is expressed by frequency or wavelength,
>> both of which are continuous.
>
> ---
> Frayed knot.

Fraid it is.

> Color is caused by an electron's dropping from one
> _discrete_ energy level to another,

Sure. Now suppose the atom is moving.

>thus generating a photon which
> carries off that quantum of energy and vibrates at a particular
> wavelength.

Sure, but there is no frequency that cant be achieved. If not so, please
name that that frequency.

Kevin Aylward
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