[extropy-chat] Mangled Worlds

[Robin Hanson]

At 02:22 AM 2/27/2006, Amara Graps wrote:
> >Instead picture grains of dust which slowly float and grind each other
> >into smaller pieces, until a big cloud of them smash into an airless
> >moon.   Under this picture most of the experience in the small worlds
> >is in the floating phase, and only a small part in the smash phase.
>
>Hey.. I like dust analogies! Not very realistic in this universe
>though. No magnetic fields or plasmas. I guess your grain size
>distribution from the collisions would be about -3, and your dust
>cloud would have asymmetries...

Well that's the problem with trying to make analogies with supposedly
simpler situations - few things are as simple as they seem.  :)



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