Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0016859, Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:22:11 +0100

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Re: THOUGHTS Re: Einstein and Langevin,
location of New Wye & its fauna]
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On 01/08/2008 14:59, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS Re: Einstein and Langevin, location of New
> Wye
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:53:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
> <mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: jerry_friedman@yahoo.com
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> CC: jerry_friedman@yahoo.com
>
> --- On Thu, 7/31/08, Stan Kelly-Bootle <skb@BOOTLE.BIZ>
> <mailto:skb@BOOTLE.BIZ> wrote:
> ...
>
>> > Before outstaying my welcome, this Planck Time, being the
>> > theoretically
>> > smallest measurable interval, presents us with the QUANTUM
>> > view of time as
>> > DISCONTINUOUS. A much bigger strain on commonsense than SR
>> > or GR. Just as
>> > energy comes in little lumps, time goes by in little jumps.
>
> May I rephrase this comment, losing both its vigor and its
> wit?
>
> This Planck Time presents us with the possibility that
> a yet-unknown (though there are promising possibilities)
> quantum theory of everything might have a mathematical
> structure that could be interpretable as saying that time
> is discontinuous, if people want to interpret it that way.
> ------
>
> Your refinement accepted, JF. See my reply to James Studdard/Jansy -- skb
> -----
>> > Quite a jolt if
>> > you enjoy singing the Hymn: TIME LIKE AN EVER-ROLLING
>> > STREAM, BEARS ALL ITS SONS AWAY!
>
> But streams are discontinuous, made of atoms.
> ----
> BUT, JF, each ever-rolling atom/molecule in the hymn's putative stream is
> envisaged as flowing by continuously. The stream is physically discontinuous
> but its flow occurs in continuous time. "Ever-rolling" is the key implying
> continuity -- as opposed to "stagger-roll-jerk-roll-pause-roll ...!!"
>
> Enjoyed yr butterfly detour. I was rather taken aback recently while
> web-browsing the Monarch, to learn that so little is known of the habits of
> this most-widely studied species. Is this typical of a dubious precision of
> lepidopteral studies? It does seem, as your research showed, that questions
> such as "Where can species X and Y geographically coexist?" are too vague for
> comfort. VN's _literary_ insects are Type-B objects
>
> skb


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