From owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Wed May 2 02:22:29 2001 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D487417B2B for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 02:22:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E3A17B2E for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 02:22:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081E617B2B for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 02:22:22 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id CAA04075 for biophys-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Wed, 2 May 2001 02:22:22 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f Reply-To: "Daniel R Bartholomew" From: "Daniel R Bartholomew" X-Newsgroups: alt.agnosticism,alt.astronomy,alt.atheism,alt.athiesm,alt.sci.natural.phenomena.unusual,alt.sci.physics,alt.talk.creationism,bionet.biophysics,harvard.course.physics11a.q-a,sci.bio.paleontology,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics,talk.atheism References: <3AE81A39.DCB403E7@mediaone.net> <3AE84A63.91AF7B61@ozone.ch> <3AE879D7.DE3494E1@mediaone.net> <3ae8b06a.109420557@nntp.we.mediaone.net> <3AE8B9E2.A73DB51B@mediaone.net> <1127_988344536@GANDALF> <3AE9B280.8406B3B2@mediaone.net> <3AEADE18.6CDCEC04@mediaone.net> <3AEB1938.15673102@mediaone.net> <3AEC62B7.38B270CF@mediaone.net> <3AEDE46D.2B67EEB5@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: The "Science" of John Boatwright Lines: 48 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 19:20:14 -0600 To: biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk "George Hammond" wrote in message news:3AEDE46D.2B67EEB5@mediaone.net... > Mr J R N Austin wrote: > > snip <<>>> > Axiomatic Law of Physics > > Any machine designed to span N dimensional > space must have N mechanical degrees of freedom, > and, in the simplest case, those N degrees of > freedom are N orthogonal mechanical axes. > > This is why the P and D orbitals in an Atom are orthogonal. > Simply because the Schrodinger equation is solved in 3D > orthogonal space. It is why a car has 4-wheels, why a horse > has 4-legs, why a house is a cube, why an airplane has 3 > orthogonal control axes (pitch, roll, yaw) and why the human > body (particularly the brain) has 3-orthogonal structural axes. > That is the CAUSAL mechanism, explaining how the 3-orthogonal > structural dimensions of space cause the 3-orthogonal structural > dimension of the brain, and hence Psychometry. Of course the > 4th dimension, time, is trivial because the brain is not a static > geometrical structure, it is time varying (mental speed, aka IQ). <<<>>> I don't want to get caught up in this flame war, but I don't understand this law of physics. It would seem to me that if this was the reason a car had four wheels, then what about tricycles and sixteen-wheel semi-tractor trailers? If a horse has four legs because of this law, why does a spider have eight legs and an ant six? If a house is shaped like a cube because of this, what about a geodesic dome? Please clarify this. This is the ONLY part of the argument that I'm interested in at this moment. Thank you. ====================== Remove your pants to reply ====================== .