Re: Poor Noah and tree ring dating



John Harshman wrote:
r norman wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:20:37 -0700, John Harshman
<jharshman.diespamdie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

r norman wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:03:11 -0700, John Harshman
<jharshman.diespamdie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

r norman wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:39:16 -0700, John Harshman
<jharshman.diespamdie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

r norman wrote:
<snip all except a hopefully countable infinity of posts>

This is getting harder and harder. I would like to call it quits.

You realize that all you have to do is fail to reply, right
You people are merciless!

Now you have my interest up. I'm going as long as you will.
As you can see, I am simply ignoring your post. I am fully aware of
the incredible persistence you have shown in the past, for example
with our old friend, the vocabulariest and semiotician UC. In that
case I shall try the delaying technique: waiting one hour for my
first replay, then two hours, then four, then eight. In that way, as
Zeno demonstrated so well, your inverse Achilles will never be able
to catch my inverse tortoise.
Actually, Achilles was the victim of a converging series, which lets him
catch the tortoise easily. Your diverging series should, however,
achieve your aim. Eventually.
Although I am still ignoring you, you probably already realize that my
aim will be achieved at the next harmonic convergence.

You are apparently absorbing my words by osmosis, even though you're
ignoring me. I should start inserting subliminal messages fnord.
According to Einstein's theory, all messages are necessarily
subluminal.

Hah! Your series is failing to diverge.
All finite series fail to diverge. You just have to wait a little
longer.

Infinitely longer, apparently. Hey, why not try it the other way around.
Just answer in half the time every time and we'll be done with the
thread in finite time, though unfortunately after an infinite number of
messages.
Good idea but my ISP doesn't have sufficient bandwidth.

I can't type that fast anyway.

So. If you have a light switch that will stand the strain, and flip it
off, then on again half a second later, then off 1/4 second later, and
so on, when you stop after one second is the light on or off?
You can do better. This is a simple homework problem:

Consider the function h(x) = sin(1/x) for x>0. Show that no matter
how h is defined at x=0 it will be discontinuous at x=0.

Yes, but is the light on or off?

You specified that the switch could stand the strain, but forgot to
make the filament of the light bulb tolerate the onrush of current
when it turns on. The bulb burned out long before one second, long
being at least several nanoseconds.

Didn't I mention it was an LED bulb? Sorry. And it was a magic LED bulb
that could turn on and off an infinite number of times with no problems.
They don't make 'em like they used to.

Each time you touch the on-off switch, you impart mechanical energy
into it. As you reach the discontinuity, you introduce an infinite
amount of energy into the switch, and either you push it through a
wall, or it vaporises.

.

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