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

MarshaV marshalz at charter.net
Tue Feb 10 03:28:15 PST 2009



OMG, now I want to write about the wonders of collage.  I better go 
paint.   Must be the full moon.



At 06:25 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:


>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.
>
>
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>At 06:06 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
>
>>KO,
>>
>>Thank you.  My respect for mathematics is growing.
>>
>>
>>Marsha
>>
>>
>>
>>At 04:13 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
>>>I agree Marsha,
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>-KO
>>>
>>>2009/2/9 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Thank you Bo and Ron,
>>> >
>>> > I'm going try to live with this for a while.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >  [Ron:}
>>> >> Bo dodges the question:
>>> >> I did it up above. Let me ask you something. Do you understand
>>> >> the Newton Gravity argument in ZAMM?
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Marsha
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > .
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