Thank you, Peter. You are very kind to take the question seriously.
Asking a question is like making a mess. Doing it is alot easier than undoing
it.
I am particularly puzzled by the manner in which incompressibility would seem
to disturb the ways in which people talk about meteorology. Are we dealing
with ways of speaking that are sufficient for some domains and not for others?
And, as you all know, I fascinated by the manner in which scientists use the
same words in such different ways as to disturb the flow of information between
them.
I await your report with enthusiasm.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
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Nick notes that there's something funny if an array reduces effective wind for
a peleton of sweaty bicyclistes, but increases it for a bunch of spinning
turbines. And he's dead right! And these are legitimate, rational questions
that an intelligent layman should ask. The answer is that the science writer is
propagating BS, as is often the case. Did anyone hear it? I have been in
contact with the author, my friend, John Dabiri, who told me they weren't ready
to release their paper yet but he'd send me ASAP!When I study it, I'll
brief Friamers on the content, and its validity. I dunno! And I'd like to
read.
Dick Feynman used to say unofficially that he never read papers, but if you
told him the title and the author, he would tell you what it was about and why
it was wrong!! A good approach for genius , but beyond me!
Peter Lissaman, Da Vinci Ventures
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