tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22073066.post489536790642859524..comments2023-06-03T06:16:38.027-04:00Comments on Estoreal: Below the foldRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22073066.post-66373631265142434492007-02-17T21:55:00.000-05:002007-02-17T21:55:00.000-05:00Well I nodded my head knowingly, for whatever that...Well <I>I</I> nodded my head knowingly, for whatever that may be worth. Heck, I was just pleasantly surprised to get any comment at all on this post!<BR/><BR/>Richard Dawkins was also influenced by cellular automata in his book <I>The Blind Watchmaker</I> -- which could have been the model for Oolon Colluphid's best-selling book <I>Well, That About Wraps It Up For God</I> were it not for the fact that Douglas Adams invented the latter some years before the former was written -- so the game of Life definitely contains the key to understanding the evolution of life.<BR/><BR/>Now, if anyone writes a book that brings together origami and Kaluza-Klein Theory, you can say you read it here first. Which would be pretty funny considering that when it comes to do with anything involving math or physics, I haven't got the slightest idea what I'm talking about.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22073066.post-71529787569597978012007-02-17T17:46:00.000-05:002007-02-17T17:46:00.000-05:00One particularly interesting thing about math is h...One particularly interesting thing about math is how continually the bits of it that seem useless and recreational turn out to be important.<BR/><BR/>Cellular automata started out as a strange little game (one that I made few hundred bucks off of two decades ago in writing a computer game based on it), yet a few years back Stephen Wolfram considered it the key to understanding the universe. Origami strikes me more likely to turn out ultimately useful than I would have thought of that stuff.<BR/><BR/>(Yeah, this is unlikely to be a comment that'll get many knowing nods, but I've been quiet 'round these parts lately. Figured I should say something at least.)Rodneyliveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03476187929555342435noreply@blogger.com