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Dear Judith,
Congradulations. It is a very interesting and excellent piece
of work which subtly conveys the whole RR message in a nut shell. For those
who have been part of the ongoing interactions within the list your article
says a lot. I believe, it will also raise the curiosity of those
who may be reading the E-journal as the first time and an urge to
read the rest. My article, representing RR's theory's
application to other similar systems, now stands better
between the real bio-applications of the theory and your
science-fiction/non-fiction. E-journal still, however, needs to be fed with
others with more living-systems oriented applications. Among these J.Kimmel's
article will certainly be very supporting.
Turning again to your article, I must say, it was a pleasant
reading. I found the hell is a very liberal and comfortable place to be
in, also ably administered by an intelligent, liberal, just and
listening guard. Now being much more illuminated after the interview with Rosen,
the same "Diavolo" may open the barrier between the Hell and the Paradise to
be, so that both sides equally illuminated looking for more. Could that be
the theme of your next work? By then with the work of others you may have more
food for thought.
Recently I read a science fiction, with a great
delight, of a well-known English Mathematician 'Ian Stewart' entitled
"Flatterland" which is a kind of a sequel to Edwin.Abbott Abbott's masterwork
"Flatland" written in late in 1900s, you may have read it already.The Ian's book
finishes as its last chapter (18) headed 'The Tenth Dimension" with the
following greatly suggestive short write-up as follows:
" Seen from space..... But it was a
space. Well, a spacetime. Start again.
Seen from a ten-dimensional
supermanifold, it was a strange world, with the austere beauty of a page from
Einstein. In fact, it was a page from Einstein, geometry made flesh. A
sprawling, humming world of three dimensional shapes stacked together along
one-dimensional time: women, men infants, toddlers, adolescents....People, of
their own kind. They lived Peoplish lives, ate Peoplish food, drank
Peoplish drinks, made Peoplish love, bore Peoplish children, and died
(Peoplishly) in a 3+1 dimensional universe, and never thought it the least bit
curious. Their relativistic spacetime continuum was all they could see, all they
could hear, all they could feel. To them, it was all there
was.
As long as nothing disturb
that perception, it was true.
But times (and spaces) were
changing in Spacetimeland....."
Judith, if you have not read it I
highly reccomend it to you to read, there you find an ally. In fact you start
the reading from the chapter 17 'Flatterland', before you move to the 1st
chapter.
My best,
Ayten
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