[MD] The Role of Evolution, Time and Order in Pirsig's MOQ

[MarshaV]

Don't remember in which book a similar incident was sited, but...  I 
first went to collage when I was 27.  I was married and had two 
kids.  Both when taking calculus and a course in Fortran I dreamt of 
finding the key to life, first with an equation, then with a program.



At 06:06 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:

>KO,
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>Thank you.  My respect for mathematics is growing.
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>Marsha
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>At 04:13 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
>>I agree Marsha,
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>>people saw that things fell to the ground before Newton and, as you say,
>>some referred to that tendency as 'gravity', but it seems Newton was the
>>first to put some predictive numbers to it.
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>>-KO
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>>2009/2/9 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
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>> > Thank you Bo and Ron,
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>> > I'm going try to live with this for a while.
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>> >  [Ron:}
>> >> Bo dodges the question:
>> >> I did it up above. Let me ask you something. Do you understand
>> >> the Newton Gravity argument in ZAMM?
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>> > I'm not sure how you are setting up the 'argument'.   Did gravity exist
>> > before Newton?  No.  There was no recognized pattern before 
>> Newton's law of
>> > universal gravitation.  Although the label 'gravity' had been 
>> used prior to
>> > Newton, and there were a bunch of men looking for a useful pattern to
>> > represent it.  If you want more you'll need to set up a broader problem.
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>> > Marsha
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