Re: Things that don't evolve

Hmm, guess over here in Britain I've missed "pi second" at 1:59:27 seconds.
But over there in the US you all can have a nice "pi moment" :-)

Iain

On 3/14/06, Robert Schneider <rjschn39@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> Today, 3.14, is "Pi Day"!
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu>
> *To:* Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> ; Chris Barden<chris.barden@gmail.com>; Gregory
> Arago <gregoryarago@yahoo.ca>
> *Cc:* ASA list <asa@calvin.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:37 AM
> *Subject:* RE: Things that don't evolve
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> All aspects of the physical universe are evolving. Irreversibility is
> the name of the game! However, nonphysical concepts, e.g., the
> transcendental number pi, are not aspects of the physical universe. The very
> existence of death is the very presence of an evolving scenario for all
> living organisms. He who solves the problem of life will simultaneously
> solve the problem of death.
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>
> Moorad
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> *From:* asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Janice Matchett
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:33 AM
> *To:* Chris Barden; Gregory Arago
> *Cc:* ASA list
> *Subject:* Re: Things that don't evolve
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> At 08:05 AM 3/14/2006, Chris Barden wrote:
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> Mathematical constants and static formulae come to mind.. I don't
> believe I've ever heard anyone mention "mathematical evolution".
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> It's important, I think, to distinguish between evolutions that have
> or are thought to have scientific mechanisms to explain them
> (biological, planetary, galactic, etc.) and mere rhetorical
> "evolution" that just means "somebody read this, and did this other
> thing, which got somebody else thinking about this new technology".
> Unless all progress is to be considered social evolution... a "theory
> of everything" must have some weight behind it for it to be any more
> than a tautology.
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> @ I googled this question to see what I'd come up with. ~ Janice
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> Google Results *1* - *10* of about *2,110,000* for *evolution*<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://www.answers.com/evolution%26r%3D67>
> * is the singularity<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://www.answers.com/singularity%26r%3D67>
> ?*.
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=evolution+is+the+singularity%3F
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>

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