Recent accessible stuff from the "Emergent Gravity" conference here: http://www.rle.mit.edu/emergent/ Review and some paper links here: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2008/08/emergent-gravity.html My favorite so far (emergent locality!) here: http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0861v2
Emergence may not be local so much as locality may be emergent. C. Phil Henshaw wrote: > I guess that's the puzzle, since we can't use triangulation to measure > distance for stars we use various corollaries for age to measure distance > and of distance to measure age, according to the equations that have seemed > to make sense so far. That the equations have not been making sense in > several ways, like needing the invention of dark energy and dark matter to > bend them for other discrepancies, is what science keeps doing, adding > "epicycles" on old theory until some complete impasse arises... and someone > finally has to think up something completely new. If others don't come to > the same impasse, like not seeing that emergence *must* be a local > individual developmental process and so not asking *how*, no amount of good > solutions for the problem will be recognized. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson >> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:09 PM >> To: friam@redfish.com >> Subject: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies >> >> Dumb question for you cosmologists to chew over: >> >> How can they be so far away and yet so young? Or, to put it even >> dumber, >> are there parts of the Universe that are so far away that they havent >> happened yet? >> >> I guess this is a question about scales of distance vis a vis scales of >> time. >> >> Nick >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, >> Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> >> >> >> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Friam mailing list >>> Friam@redfish.com >>> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >>> >>> End of Friam Digest, Vol 63, Issue 3 >>> ************************************ >>> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
