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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (16146)	1/24/2004 6:30:49 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

what speaks for alot of the activity in the universe --->SEX! (and the memory of SEX, and the anticipation of wonderful chaotic & random wild and crazy ---> SEX . hehe !) ...and the contemplation of opposites attracting... also makes for some interesting combinations & interactions . ;-)

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (16146)	1/26/2004 10:05:11 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

One or the other, And why is that? I tend to use the term Deterministic and Non-Deterministic as they hold less baggage (They are math/computer terms). These really are fundamental opposites. chaos and fate have wide appeal because both apparently absolve us of choice and responsibility To be a bit precise, chaos (another math term) is not directly related to deteminism (fate). The venacular opposite of fate is random. One interesting result of chaos theory is that even a fated (non-random) process can be unpredictable, even when everything necessary about the problem is known. maa.org <font color=green> Subsequent work by Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) and others demonstrated that, in general, it is impossible to obtain a general solution, expressed as an explicit formula, to the three-body problem. In other words, given three bodies in a random configuration, the resulting motion nearly always turns out to be chaotic. No one can predict precisely what paths those bodies would follow.</font> TP