From: Don Stockbauer on
On Jul 5, 12:37 am, BURT <macromi...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jul 4, 10:34 pm, Marshall <marshall.spi...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 4, 9:25 pm, Don Stockbauer <donstockba...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > A quantum fluctuation that produces light waves instead of matter.
>
> > > Wouldn't that be actual light, not virtual light?  And quantum fluct-
> > > you-Asians can produce what type of matter?
>
> > 1. Actual.
>
> > 2. Potential.
>
> > Marshall

You have them in the wrong order.
From: Matt on
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:39:36 -0700 (PDT), Don Stockbauer wrote:

>On Jul 5, 12:34�am, Marshall <marshall.spi...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 4, 9:25�pm, Don Stockbauer <donstockba...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > > A quantum fluctuation that produces light waves instead of matter.
>>
>> > Wouldn't that be actual light, not virtual light? �And quantum fluct-
>> > you-Asians can produce what type of matter?
>>
>> 1. Actual.
>>
>> 2. Potential.
>>
>> Marshall
>
>Yes, you're learning, grasshopper. Cybernetically (practically) there
>are just 2 infinities, as you state. Now, if you want to go the road
>Cantor did and waste your life exploring the infinity of mathematical
>infinites and then commit suicide over them, be my guest.

No suicide mentioned here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor

From: Aatu Koskensilta on
Matt <30days(a)net.net> writes:

> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:39:36 -0700 (PDT), Don Stockbauer wrote:
>
>>Now, if you want to go the road Cantor did and waste your life
>>exploring the infinity of mathematical infinites and then commit
>>suicide over them, be my guest.
>
> No suicide mentioned here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor

It was suicide by heart attack.

--
Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi)

"Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: Matt on
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:36:44 +0300, Aatu Koskensilta wrote:

>Matt <30days(a)net.net> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:39:36 -0700 (PDT), Don Stockbauer wrote:
>>
>>>Now, if you want to go the road Cantor did and waste your life
>>>exploring the infinity of mathematical infinites and then commit
>>>suicide over them, be my guest.
>>
>> No suicide mentioned here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor
>
>It was suicide by heart attack.

Strange humor.

http://plus.maths.org/issue47/features/macgregor/index.html
His last letters are to his wife Vally, written from a mental
hospital, pleading to be allowed home. He died of a heart attack on
the 6th of January 1918.

Sad.
From: purple on
On 7/5/2010 9:03 AM, Matt wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:36:44 +0300, Aatu Koskensilta wrote:
>
>> Matt<30days(a)net.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:39:36 -0700 (PDT), Don Stockbauer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Now, if you want to go the road Cantor did and waste your life
>>>> exploring the infinity of mathematical infinites and then commit
>>>> suicide over them, be my guest.
>>>
>>> No suicide mentioned here:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor
>>
>> It was suicide by heart attack.
>
> Strange humor.
>
> http://plus.maths.org/issue47/features/macgregor/index.html
> His last letters are to his wife Vally, written from a mental
> hospital, pleading to be allowed home. He died of a heart attack on
> the 6th of January 1918.
>
> Sad.

Why? He'd be dead by now anyway.