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6 hours ago, Old Man said:

Well, if X is my current stupidity, and you add additional stupidity for youth and then for not being awake yet, and multiply for majoring in a hard science with no female classmates, then lim(X) -> ∞ .

 

What were the hard sciences 4000 years ago anyway?  Thaumaturgy, mummification and virgin sacrifice?

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Mummification, yes. The other two, no. Egyptian science was qualitative not quantitative. Ergo it was accessible via symbols and read by the “intelligence of the heart”. The “place” where this meaning is kept is beyond the point of space & time referred to variously as the zero point, nunc stans, or no-thing.  

 

 

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I'm very, very tempted to put on the exam the explicit statement that no answer on a question scores 4 points.    That would mean the dead man, if he turned in a signed blank paper, would score 32, and four people did worse than that on this exam.

 

 

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When you don't understand what's going on, all kinds of ideas are viable.  There was no separation imaginable between what we now call astronomy and what had always been called astrology at least into the 1600s.

 

Meanwhile, I am spending a few bemused minutes glancing through this week's whackjob email, some guy who thinks he can build an antigravity device with an array of gyroscopes.  It's not often that you get whackjob entries with full-out solutions to coupled nonlinear differential equations.

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