Wednesday 5 January 2011

Article: On Early Warning Signs

Only rarely do you see such a well written article with so many clued in concepts as this article in Seed Magazine pointed to below.  I heartily recommend that you read it and if you don't understand it use a dictionary.  You will save yourself many a heart ache by understanding first principles of the real world!  

The real world is non-linear and so the old linear math of economics classes have to be re-written into non-linear expositions and contain many more real world exposures.  Understand what randomness is all about.  Realize that a fourth dimension, or possibly more, invade(s) our three dimensional world and that/those dimension(s) obeys(s) mathematics that is non-linear.  Think fractals!


On Early Warning Signs
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_early_warning_signs/

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Time is, was and will be.  Without time we would not be.  What a load it has to carry!  Time seems eternal!  You might even ask whether cycles in time exist?  If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".

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