Re: virus: v

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 19:44:16 -0400


Hi,

Dan Plante <danp@CS347838-A.gvcl1.bc.wave.home.com> wrote:
<bigsnip>
> Hell, I'm still reading over my reply, and
> thinking "Did I miss something? Are the conclusions
> logically consistent?". Oh, well. I'm sure someone will
> tell me if I goofed.

Well, I read it over, and the only thing that looked suspicious was the
analysis of quantized or non-quantized time and space. I think you've
possibly made the same mistake that you were pointing out in the previous
analysis -- just because space or time may be "continous" doesn't mean that
a quantized travel over them is impossible; e.g. even if space is
continous, I can *still* travel at 5 m/s (quanitizing time into seconds, or
whatever) and get where I'm going.

Other than that, looks good -- mathematics is a model, and a useful one to,
but you've got to make sure that the assumptions it makes are valid in the
situation you wish to use it in.

ERiC