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Article #9696Re: IQ Test
From: Gordon W. Rycroft
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00
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Joan Tine wrote: > I'm still trying to understand how a continuous range of VIBRATION > gets "broken up" into "primary" and "secondary" and "tertiary" colors > in any but the linguistically abstract sense. It's all a question of how the human eye interprets light. If a Castleford forward wears yellow, his shirt actually reflects a range of light frequencies of which the ones at the green and red wavelengths get picked up by the eye and reinterpreted by the brain as yellow. > Yes, basic trig says you can > add phase angles and produce waves further along the spectrum, and > perhaps that new wave has a characteristic which, by sheerest chance > of evolution, means something to the human eye... Alternately, it could work so beautifully because there *is* a God. Not the one postulated by alt.whackos.creationists, obviously, but a plausible one... > but this is an ultimately parocial and species-local event. > > I think people are getting preoccupied with a practical approximation > to the detriment of their grasp of the underlying reality, like those > simpletons who think Pi is 22/7. So that's compulsory classes in quantum physics for all, starting at the age of seven. Yep, I'm with you on that! > Joan Gordon PS Now can we get back to Rugby League?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11640a,d6b7cd023dd18765 X-Google-Attributes: gid11640a,public X-Google-Thread: 112a4f,d6b7cd023dd18765 X-Google-Attributes: gid112a4f,public X-Google-Thread: f96d7,d6b7cd023dd18765 X-Google-Attributes: gidf96d7,public X-Google-Thread: f8215,d6b7cd023dd18765 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8215,public X-Google-Thread: 104afb,d6b7cd023dd18765 X-Google-Attributes: gid104afb,public X-Google-Thread: fb30f,d6b7cd023dd18765 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb30f,public X-Google-Thread: 101791,d6b7cd023dd18765 X-Google-Attributes: gid101791,public X-Google-Thread: 10842d,d6b7cd023dd18765 X-Google-Attributes: gid10842d,public From: "Gordon W. Rycroft" <gwr1@ukc.ac.uk> Subject: Re: IQ Test Date: 1997/02/20 Message-ID: <330C59EF.1FCB@ukc.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 220148249 References: <5a8qe4$c1h@boursy.news.erols.com> <5a959l$cm7@boursy.news.erols.com> <5acnl8$2kf@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> <32CB01EB.70FB@hotmail.com> <5ahvie$nce@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> <32D7CF7E.7B08@icanect.net> <5bbki1$rm7@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <5c09lo$900@clyde.open.ac.uk> <5e5onj$f5a@boursy.news.erols.com> <5e5t58$akd@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <E5pJ05.909@snugbug.cts.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: University of erm... What's it called now? Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: 3b.config,rec.sport.pro-wrestling,rec.sport.pro-wrestling.fantasy,rec.sport.rodeo,rec.sport.rowing,rec.sport.rugby.league,rec.sport.rugby.union,rec.sport.skating.ice.figure,rec.sport.skating.ice.recreational,rec.sport.skating.inline,rec.sport.skating.misc X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (WinNT; I)