[LINK] Finally up to date on the Shuttle

[James Pearce]

I understand biology and ecology. I don't understand physics. I don't think
this reflects different levels of complexity between the two, just the way I
think.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Antony Barry" <tony@tony-barry.emu.id.au>
To: "James Pearce" <james.pearce@zdnet.com.au>
Cc: "Link" <link@anu.edu.au>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [LINK] Finally up to date on the Shuttle


>
> On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 05:53 PM, James Pearce wrote:
>
> > Physics is
> > weird...
> >
>
> Not so. The success of physics is because it tackles the simple
> problems which involve few things interacting. When I were a lad people
> were looking for solutions to the n-body problem (more than 2!) now we
> know they are not there. Not in the simple form that 2-body problems
> and effectively infinite numbers (thermodynamics) anyway.
>
> What is weird are the immensely complex problems that biology and
> ecology throws up.
>
> Tony
>
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>