Re: Distinct linear orderings on Z

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:30:51 -0500

>
> 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,

If it is a central fource, ellipses are the correct idealization, not
circles. Circles are so.. so... retro. They went out with Copernicus and
epi-cycles. I don't suppose you have ever bothered to derive the orbits
in a central force field. You haven't have you?

Bob Kolker

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