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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (12820)	5/11/2002 7:42:19 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

In the mansion of your mind, you have, somehow, managed to lock yourself in the basement. I guess its nice and warm down there, and you've got all your furniture arranged and nailed down just where you like it.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (12820)	5/11/2002 7:42:25 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

identify F, m, and a and then show there is a linear relationship between F and m and a. Well, it possibly is within the range of human capability to identify these variables in a military action. The variables of force, mass (troops?), and acceleration (Panzer strikes?) possibly could be identified. However, quantification of such variables seems to me to be wholly outside the range of human capability at present (although some of it probably could be quantified). Without quantification, no measurements are possible and no relationships among variables can be established. All this tells me is that modern science is still quite primitive. If we have identified (in our primitive state) certain laws that hold true for physical objects in motion ... do they hold true for all objects, and for all aggregations of objects, and for all actions of any kind? They may. The fact that we cannot see that they do (or prove that they don't) merely leaves the matter as unknown, inconclusive. As far as I am concerned, our primitive science explains a very minute portion of our existence, and all the rest remains in the unknown. The unknown is an open field for speculation by anyone.