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Does true randomness exist or are all seemingly random events simply our lack of knowing all the hidden, causal variables which affect our ability to predict events (effects)? | |
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Just came across this:
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/08/why_our_analemma_looks_like_a.php |
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Why does French sound so similar to Hebrew?
Well, at least to my American ears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-PDArBZrz8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3TvLSvvKMc |
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Richard Feynman, the world-renowned smarty-pants and undoubted Arse-burger, went through a phase (as a teenager, I think) of consciously inspecting and directing his own dreams, 'til he decided he'd ... |
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I crunched some more numbers.
In the 'chart' below each row contains a location, followed by annual mean temp, followed by the date which best represents the annual mean temp, followed by a number wh ... |
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What day(s) of the year is the crossover point on the analemma?
August 30th and April 12th/13th Right. April 12th to August 30th is 140 days, and August 30th to April 12th is 225 days. 225 / 1 ... |
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225 / 140 = 1.607
(This is just an estimate... The actual crossover point is hard to determine on the diagrams, so it might be even closer to the Golden Ratio if you could sub-divide days.) ... |
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It binds the irregular daily movement of Sol (in terms of three dimensional space and time) into a unified form. http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/Documents/analemma-dwg-uk.gif Yes, I agree. N ... |
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You're inviting me to tread into waters I would normally try to avoid... (I'm a simple engineer who leaves this sort of thing to deeper thinker)... but I would equate the Logos with divine logic (for ... | |
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The Muse stuff is very informative. But, before you go on.... Why dont you come over to our fire. You are our guest, stranger. Sit down, before us. Tell us, your "to" and & ... |
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http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/pictures/analemma-set-south.jpg
You can use the analemma to produce very accurate sundials (and there are references to the ancients producing analemmic sundials)� ... |
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You see, in the Greek legends the Muses are the mediators of inspiration/knowledge/writing. For example Homer's Odyssey (another Exodus type story) opens with the invocation of the Muse. One of the ea ... | |
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Could someone who knows about these things substitue a Yod for the Tripod logo. I never thought I'd utter that sentence.
Done! The following should mingle with the Exodus thread. You see, in ... |
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It's not on this site, bub. But here:
http://www.thequestgroup.org/clubhouse/messageboard.htm Sorry, my mistake. I've got too much going on ........ |
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It's an ankh. Same thing.
Nice one Hatty. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Ra_Barque.jpg |
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