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Originally posted by Suki
And everything I said on it was true. And I still feel the same way about Eddier1. I don't think I ever will feel anything different. What a wonder it was to have met him, and all the other people I have learned from at pr.com. I don't know if my time is up on this forum. But, this thread and what it reflected was very beautiful.
Suki.
Post Data. One always remembers beginnings. Such a lovely beginning I had in this forum.
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Hi Suki,
Well, I guess we're like two ships passing in the night. If you check in again, leave your hotmail address. I changed systems and seem to have misplaced it. How are you? And how is your mother? Responding to treatment, I hope.
We did have some interesting conversation here, didn't we? And to think that all I had in mind was to was kill god and be on to the next thing. Silly me! Anyway, I was just polishing Excalibur when it occurred to me that I should trot the General Theorem back over to the Infidels to see what might have developed with regard to abiogenesis over the past couple of years. And voila! I was pleasantly surprised to find your recent post.
I am reading Kip Thorne’s “Black Holes & Time Warps – Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy”. It is an engaging history of 20th century physics, and masterfully presented. One of the things that he notes about Einstein is the awesome power of the man’s intuition. After his brilliant formulation of relativity within a non-gravitational reference frame (special relativity), his intuition that the theory “seemed right” enabled him to persevere through arduous years toward the mathematics that generalized the theory (general relativity) to the gravitational reference frames of our universe.
I have something akin to that feeling about the General Theorem. It just seems right. Although the kernel of the idea comes from Viet Nam, 1969, while I was serving there as a junior grade engineer officer, I finally formalized it 10 years ago. Now, I am waiting for the science to confirm it. While our understanding of abiogenesis has expanded remarkably in recent years, the puzzle of protein synthesis is not yet complete. I give it another 10 to 20 years, at the outside.
So, why would anyone want to kill god, you ask? Well, let’s take a walk through hypothetical history and ask ourselves how that history would have been rewritten had the General Theorem been known and accepted 2000 years ago. For openers, there would have been no feud between Shiites and Sunnis spanning the past 20 centuries and, more recently, there would most likely have been no war between Iran and Iraq. There would have been no Moslem incursion into Europe and no Crusades. We would not have seen a million women and children slaughtered as witches in Europe in the middle ages. No Inquisition. No war between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. No war between Pakistan and India. No war in Northern Ireland. No 9/11. No wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. And no war on terror. Now, as I recall, we have executed quite a number of bad boys right here in the good old USofA for a whole lot less than that! And, of course, the bonus: We wouldn’t have to listen to a bunch of shrill nonsense from the likes of Jesus Boy, Manny, et al.
Tell you what, I’m serving my warrant on that cosmic terrorist right now in the form of the General Theorem!
Regards,
Raul