Tell me, Mark.
First let me tell you how I was on a runway in
a plane at 35 below with 3000 feet of
freezing rain above us which we didn't know
about, a plane with no de-icers, and a pilot
who was just going to 'go for it', and during our
run-ups an oil seal broke so we had to abort.
What kind of q-randomness saved my ass THAT day?
Sounds more like "go for it"-boy also likes to neglect his
maintenance. Now I suppose you want to know why the seal failed just
then? Familiar with the term Mean Time Between Failure, and why it's
called that?
I think you have to have your own
experiences of this type to open your
eyes. I have had numerous such. It's like
somebody is always backing my play. (-:
You have an exaggerated sense of your own importance.
You also appear, as Mark Martin said, to assume Chaos Theory
means total disorder- the diametric opposite of Determinism, but it
isn't. Chaos Theory is about the predictable patterns discernable in
certain types of macroscopic (originally not quantum-level)
randomness. When first announced it was a terrible shock both to
strict Determinists and Quantum Theorists alike yet it has been
shown to have wide application in both ways of looking at the real
world, whether they (or you) like it or not:
http://www.imho.com/grae/chaos/chaos.html
Incidentally, notice that Chaos Theory is intimately dependent on
fractals. You don't have a conceptual problem with fractals, do you?
I hope not because you're surrounded by examples of them.
This page explains the link between Chaos Theory and fractals a
little better:
http://www.mathjmendl.org/chaos/
It goes back to Poicare's discovery that the Solar System's
behavior is not stable Newtonian-deterministic-wise. I have to ask
you how you can possibly believe that an entire galaxy can be stable
in any particular observed state when our Solar System isn't?
Of course, if your sense of self-importance weren't so overblown
you could have Googled these and more pages to learn from. But you
apparently don't believe you have anything left to learn. That's
kinda sad; you must live in a very boring Universe.
Also kinda sad is that you failed to respond to my earlier
challenges asking you for cites to back up your beliefs re: galactic
arms; maybe you're waiting for "somebody" to do it for you?
BTW, there's a serious problem with trying to build a worldview
solely on one's own experiences; you can't live long enough to
experience everything (not to mention all the stuff you missed
before being born), nor can you replicate many experiences to see if
they might have gone differently. For that matter you can't
replicate an experienced event so that someone else can have the
same experience, period. I've had _lots_ of experiences I refuse to
cite as evidence for anything no matter what I may think they mean;
that's one major difference between science and whatever the hell it
is you're doing.
Wanna talk about LSD trips? FTM, wanna talk about
perfectly-straight "paranormal" experiences? I've had plenty of
both, but they won't mean squat to anyone else because they're
impossible to replicate for other people.
Mark L. Fergerson
