signifikat
Chapter 2 Page 19

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Chapter 2 Page 19

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Despite its hangover from the DD Awards Ceremony, signifikat is just in time, mainly to teach you the lesson Betajess and trevoramueller failed to teach you: That girls don't have to live on the other side of the country (or Atlantic) to be out of reach.

Only two more pages and I hope this chapter will begin to make some sort of sense.


REPLIES:

Fitz: Nononono… ITS hangover. I'm choosing my words carefully. And the only way I'm drowning my sorrows is by making comics. Which, judging from the feedback I received so far, is a win-win-situation. I really thought people would just think I'm a whiny misogynist. Well… at least nobody calls me whiny! And it's not that I've got something against your title… people might just get the wrong idea. Or even worse, the right idea! :-P And I'm afraid I can't really say how messed up our culture is. Especially not in relation to the ancient Greeks. I guess having an opinion on what qualifies as "messed up" depends on one's contact to certain cultures… and even if I could, I couldn't do it in limited space like this ;-)

DAJB: You're telling me NOW that I turned my back on classic philosophy completely? Darn! (And "hair of the dog" is the British way of saying "start the day as you ended it", right?) :-P

Jabali: Yay! :-)

JNP: To paraphrase DAJB's comment: philosophy + bewbies = WIN :-P However, I don't really see how you can justify the assumption that oddities would happen in circles or in infinity. The way I see it, both circles and infinity are just as well-defined as any other mathematical figure. A familiar argument would be that we just don't have any experience with infinity (and that they do NOT behave like the sort of infinity or circles we define in math), thus we can't really say anything about it. But of course we're dealing with circles all the time (even if they shouldn't serve as the best metaphor for infinity), and we know pretty well that if we walk in circles, we come across the same place over and over again. And there are two very real "intrinsic" occurences of infinity in our reality: Black holes and the universe's expansion (a Platonist might even add: the human mind and the realm of ideas and such. Even modern psychology treats the human memory as functionally infinite). It's possible to deny both as real (saying they are just theories), but as I stated at the beginning, I'm a realist when it comes to both, and my whole question (how can event horizons occupy limited space?) only makes sense if you posit them as real from the get-go. That is why my POV - that infinity just means: going on forever (in a completely unparadoxical way) - still stands. It's just the transition from finite to infinite (the growing dent in space-time as you enter the event horizon and fall down the black hole) that's odd. But of course we've got the same problem in any coordinate plane when dealing with an asymptote. So if you find one odd, you might as well find the other odd, the difference being: the asympote is a model, the black hole is - assumptively - real.

man in black, armandoB, cda: Thanks everyone!

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