Re: How do extraterrestial languages work ? ? ? ?

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:40:13 +0000

In message <41c921dd$1_2@Usenet.com>, helix
<time@ocsnet-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> writes
>Using the periodic table as a linguistic key is making the assumption
>that we have that table "absolutely" correct. The typical
>rectangular representation is what we are familiar with, but is there
>a better form? See the spiral periodic table at,
>
>http://www.periodicspiral.com/images/downloads/psprint.pdf
>
>It comes in different forms.
>
>http://www.periodicspiral.com/

Ultimately they're all just different representations of the solutions
of Schroedinger's equation for a Coulomb potential. Those are just
simple geometrical functions, spherical harmonics, with which we can
reasonably assume a Martian mathematician would be familiar. 

-- 
Richard Herring