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From: Jesse F. Hughes on 14 Jun 2010 12:54
Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes(a)gmail.com> writes:

> I made mention in various older posts of an idea called Levels or
> Hierarchies of Engineering. What I mean by that is I have several lots
> of land with buildings on them, including my home where I have a large
> number of tools and materials, and depending on what goes wrong and
> needs fixing, that I have so many tools and materials that I can
> engineer a fix to the problem. An alternative view of this Hierarchy
> of Engineering is that we could not build a skyscraper in the 19th
> century but had to wait for the 20th century where we had a Hierarchy
> of Engineering with steel, welding and concrete to build these
> skyscrapers. Likewise I could use the example of airplanes where the
> 19th century did not have the Levels of Engineering in materials or in
> understanding to produce airplanes back then.

This is very insightful. In order to build certain things, one needs
the requisite technological knowledge.

I'm not sure that anyone has ever noticed this before. You are the man!

--
"Now I realize that he got away with all of that because sci.math is
not important, and the rest of the world doesn't pay attention.
Like, no one is worried about football players reading sci.math
postings!" -- James S. Harris on jock reading habits
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 14 Jun 2010 12:57
Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes(a)gmail.com> writes:

> Since 1990 when the Atom Totality was discovered, and widely reported,
> mostly on the Internet, but some in print and newspapers. It makes me
> happy to know that only a small group of believers accepts the theory.

Small group?

Is there really a second believer in your theory?

--
Jesse F. Hughes
"I think the problem for some of you is that you think you are very
smart. I AM very smart. I am smarter on a scale you cannot really
comprehend and there is the problem." -- James S. Harris
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