Hi, Gerald (et.al.); long time, no digest.
Glad to have one again.
Personal note, me: I've recoded my Python Tverse packer in C++.
(Packing function only; no visuals like the Python, yet.)
Didn't know if I'd told you that.
Now I have one response, from my own work:
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> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:20:44 +0100
> From: "Gerald de Jong" <
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> Subject: [Fluidiom-code] Bucky Fuller rolls over in his grave
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> the universe may be dodecahedral!
>
>
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/9/3.....Naturally.
However, physics (cosmology, more properly) must be careful to
distinguish between the faces of a (pentagonal, not rhombic)
dodecahedron and the vertices of an icosahedron. Both are 12, so
depending on what observation is being made (matter, or energy, or
distributions in the universe), the universe could be either.
In my work, it's neither. Universe is a sphere, BUT it will show
icosahedral/dodecahedral distributions of matter.
_On_ a sphere (boundary of universe) composed of points of space, Euler
has critical things to say, chief among which is the necessary 12
evenly-placed instances of _fiveness_ required by the attempt to curve a
plane (points natively in a six-around-one pattern) into a sphere. The
distortion that occurs causes there to be 12 places where either
five-around-one, or five-around-none (my personal preference), exist.
So if the universe is as I believe it to be, "of course" it's
dodecahedral --in effect, but not necessarily in shape.
IOW, yeah, that's nice to have some hard evidence pointing to
dodecahedrality (/slash/ icosahedraliity), but it's not news to me: my
system predicts it.
Have a Happy!
(If this winter I get visuals going in my C++ packer version, I'll be
sure to let you know. You and Kirby Urner (and a few others) were my
"coding mentors".)
Peace
JB
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