Re: Questions (Space)

Ric Locke <warlocke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina Hall wrote:

Well, it would help to know what it is that travels. :) I can
imagine that travelling in greater and smaller amount, outward in a
shell rather than squeezed into an electric line, once I know what
it is. (Light and radio are rather vague to describe its contents,
more like looking at the outcome of the effect it has than
describing what it actually is.)

I'm going to have to think about this, Tina. Clearly you have a real
problem with /abstract/ -- that is, with things that don't have a
solid, concrete "thing" that they refer to. Most of this stuff is
like that. There isn't anything at the core that's solid,

If there isn't anything, there can't be anything that travels. Not solid
doesn't matter, as long as you explain what else it is. Right now, I
don't have an alternative to 'solid'.

A register in a computer isn't actually solid, either, I can still
picture them.

so I'll have to explain it to you by analogy, and analogy always has
problems. If you take the analogy too seriously you can come to
wildly wrong conclusions, because it's only "like" rather than an
exact explanation.

That's ok. Electrons aren't really peas just as an atom doesn't look
like a solar system. It's models that refer to one thing that applies.
If I get more of such 'one things' (like parameters), I can picture the
actual thing. The more the better, I guess.

Right now I have bookkeeping to catch up on. Sorry. Maybe I'll have
some time this evening to work through it.

:) Thanks for considering it, in any case.

--
Tina
WIP: Space: 1123 words
WISuspension: Seasons & Elements trilogy | Magic Earth series
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