tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post2099060978019024240..comments2024-03-29T07:33:41.566-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Three Days from Done?SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-46526578441948007272017-11-15T20:27:23.202-05:002017-11-15T20:27:23.202-05:00Fractals, Benjamin.....fractals.Fractals, Benjamin.....fractals.drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-365494915504999312017-11-15T20:01:18.929-05:002017-11-15T20:01:18.929-05:00I do not know if it is God's math at work or s...<i>I do not know if it is God's math at work or some other mysterious force,<br /><br />but I am always struck by the fact that patterns repeat across substances- the pattern in that maple can be found in ripples in waves, beach sand, cloud formations, abalone shells and rock formations. </i> You'll also find the same patterns can repeat in the same thing if you look at a different scale. Zoom in on a rock, say, and the features seen at the microscopic scale can look like the ones seen at a larger scale. <br /><br />There's no way to answer that without including faith of some kind. I think "God's math at work" is as good an explanation as anything. Saying "it's just partial differential equations" is the same level of statement in my book. PDEs are simply an elegant way of describing things; they say nothing about <i>why</i> and precious little about mechanisms. <br /><br />To quote <a href="http://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2012/03/we-pause-for-moment.html" rel="nofollow">myself</a> from 2012:<br /><br /><i>Someone once asked J.B.S. Haldane, a famous British geneticist/biologist, what a lifetime of studying biology had taught him about the preferences of God, should there be one. He answered, "He has an inordinate fondness for beetles". I would say "inordinate fondness for partial differential equations"</i> <br /><br />Look at Earth from altitude. Nearly everything that's man made is described by lines and Euclidean geometry. Nearly everything that's natural is described by partial differential equations. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-92002769788852054462017-11-15T18:12:37.966-05:002017-11-15T18:12:37.966-05:00Lookin' Good!
I do not know if it is God'...Lookin' Good! <br /><br />I do not know if it is God's math at work or some other mysterious force,<br /><br /> but I am always struck by the fact that patterns repeat across substances- the pattern in that maple can be found in ripples in waves, beach sand, cloud formations, abalone shells and rock formations. Very curious. ravennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-85718753351276520552017-11-15T16:28:13.389-05:002017-11-15T16:28:13.389-05:00That's a number I can work with. I'm find...That's a number I can work with. I'm finding over spray crept in under some of the masking news paper, and it's going to take buffing with something or other. <br /><br />Do you find any reason to say their warning to wait three days to recoat is overly cautious? <br /><br />It will take a week to finish coating it, and it probably better sit at least another week before I take a buffer to it. I want it fully hardened. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-75454992899480929032017-11-15T15:52:02.122-05:002017-11-15T15:52:02.122-05:00At eight to ten coats Min wax starts to look deep....At eight to ten coats Min wax starts to look deep. Some of my projects have received even fourteen coats.<br />Looks great now !Spudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00689059709873763146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-43207892494301395322017-11-15T08:08:59.907-05:002017-11-15T08:08:59.907-05:00drjim nailed it. It does look gorgeous.
drjim nailed it. It does look gorgeous. <br /><br />John in Phillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196033252818387245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-34214539536092817162017-11-15T02:07:29.302-05:002017-11-15T02:07:29.302-05:00Indeed, Sig, it is lovely. Good work, you and Rave...Indeed, Sig, it is lovely. Good work, you and Raven. What a great outcome for an instrument that otherwise would have been abandoned, or relegated to a dusty corner somewhere.<br /><br />I'll be interested to hear how she sounds when it is safe to play her.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45661454779995423992017-11-14T23:54:05.172-05:002017-11-14T23:54:05.172-05:00WoW....that looks gorgeous!WoW....that looks gorgeous!drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.com