http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/ Bibal.Net Study Group Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:41:57 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19958 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19958 Gunnar: I can't keep silent. When musicians find themselves in heaven it is their nature to sing--obviously the only reason an omnipotent deity would have Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:36:04 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19957 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19957 Rchard, This is a very beautiful and important contribution. And in the Americas, it remains a suspicion in my mind, that the "word of God" had already arrived Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:27 GMT Richard Abbott http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19956 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19956 Hi Ernest and all, you wrote ... I think there is more to be plumbed here (I do realise you were just setting out a bullet-point list rather than long Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:47:27 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19955 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19955 David, This successfully "rationalizes" Trinitarian Christology if we accept the unit "1" as the "zero power" of all number as characterized for humanity in Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:43:49 GMT Gunnar Tómasson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19954 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19954 Dear Ernest. Here (in a 1916 English translation) is the first part of Snorri Sturluson's Prologue to Edda: In the beginning God created heaven and earth and Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:40:25 GMT David Crookes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19953 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19953 Ernest, let me give you a dumb answer. No. No matter who you are or what you believe, when you perform an elementary scientfic experiment on the monochord, you Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:54:47 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19952 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19952 Dear Gunnar, and anybody else who cares a damn: This morning I find myself pondering a general question that is over my head, and so I'm "thinking out loud" Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:10:08 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19951 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19951 Thank you Gunnar. I must now proceed carefully to try to identify some of the Greek gods, heroes and mythic figures, but that task really needs a linguist Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:51:01 GMT Gunnar Tómasson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19950 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19950 On wings of Icarus! Gunnar _____ From: bibal@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bibal@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ernest McClain Sent: 7. nóvember 2009 14:50 To: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:32:44 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19949 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19949 MessageThey are endless Jay: I'm just BEGINNING! Your encouragement, from a wonderful mathematician/violinist with an ironic appreciation of Jewish humor is so Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:50:30 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19948 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19948 And sometimes succeeds! Ernest ... From: Gunnar Tómasson To: bibal@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:31 AM Subject: RE: [bibal] Lone Wolf Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:31:19 GMT Gunnar Tómasson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19947 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19947 Ernest. In the mid-1970's a thought popped up in my mind out of nowhere. It was both novel and strikingly clear and I wrote it down: “Art attempts the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:39:40 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19946 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19946 Gunnar: "Mathematics as an observation-based art" seems a very useful locution right here. A great art is not necessarily entirely self-conscious of its own Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:26:52 GMT Ernest McClain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19945 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19945 Dear David and John: We all, apparently, are awed by Michelangelo's unfinished masterpieces. But this "remote control" metaphor could work only if we knew a Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:13:44 GMT Gunnar Tómasson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19944 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibal/message/19944 John. Re: Personally, I think that mathematical abstraction could be a "remote control" over physics. "Intelligible matter" may be virtual embodiment rising to