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<DIV>re: Please look at my new paper at a site of French AI
specialists:<BR><BR>http://www.admiroutes.asso.fr/larevue/2005/61/pavel.htm<BR></DIV>
<DIV>hb: I read it, admired it, wished I'd been able to complete it with you,
wished I'd had have my name up there with yours and George's, and wrote
you a long email. </DIV>
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<DIV>I've just looked to see if the email was sent and it's disappeared without
a trace.</DIV>
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<DIV>All thanks for citing me when the information or ideas I've provided prove
useful.</DIV>
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<DIV>Meanwhile I tried to send you an idea that Lee Smolin has been
developing, one that relates to our conversations on quantum particles, ants,
and bees. It's his notion of loop quantum gravity:</DIV>
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<DIV>"<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><STRONG>One
competing theory to string theory is called loop quantum gravity, pioneered by,
among others, Lee Smolin </STRONG></SPAN><SPAN
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the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.<B><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow"> It proposes that space-time
is constructed of loops even smaller than strings. Joining loops together
creates a mesh of nodes and branches called a spin network.</SPAN></B>
<STRONG>The advantage of this model is that<SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow"> space-time itself can be
built out of these networks</SPAN> instead of having to be assumed, as it is in
string theory." (</STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">JR Minkel Black holes,
but not as we know them 22 January 2005, NewScientist.com</FONT><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN
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20, 2005</SPAN><SPAN
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from the World Wide Web<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A
href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524836.500">http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524836.500</A>)</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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mesh can be a universal communication device, one in which each loop is in touch
with all the others via their grand gestalt, their overarching shape.
Tug one corner of a sweater and it can effect every other
loop--instantaneously. Could a mesh with a shifting topology convey
information to each corner and nano-twist? Howard</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A
Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution
of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate
Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty Member, The Graduate
Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder:
International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution
Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango
Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political
Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human
Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New
Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology
Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer
Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see
www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of
Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see
www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>