Re: Distinct linear orderings on Z

From: aeo6 (aeo6_at_cornell.edu)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:38:35 -0500

robert j. kolker said:
>
>
> Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
> >
> > Go blow soap bubbles, Bob. Or take a look at the moon.
>
> You look at the moon. Its profile is very rough. It has ragged edges as
> can easily be seen with a telescope. Soap bubbles. They consist of
> discrete molecules and cannot constitue a topological compact space.
> Your problem is that you do not examine things closely enough. You
> comfuse your subjective impressions with objective reality.
>
> Bob Kolker
>
Your problem is that you think circles have to be perfect. This is where my
definition based on the path traced by a point under mutually interacting
influences describes the kinds of circle we actually observe, which can get
distorted through effects on those influences. Nothing's perfect, so no perfect
circle, but no circle? I disagree. 

-- 
Smiles,
Tony

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