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Happy New Year
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jim ruxton
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Jan 04, 2005 21:25 PST
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Thanks Diana and Sergio for your kind words about Subtle Tech. It would
be great to have you both back. Ron maybe now that you say you are close
to an airport you'll be able to make the journey to Toronto. Sounds like
a great move you are making. I'm feeling quite tied down by work
commitments here in Toronto. I'm hoping I can release a few of those in
2005 to allow me more freedom to move around.
I'm sure some of you are subscribers to the EDGE newsletter but for
those who aren't there was an interesting edition that just came out,
it's on their website. A question was posed to a number of scientists
and others. The question was "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH
YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?" I thought it was an intriguing question and there
are some interesting answers. I'm particularly drawn to some of the
physicists responses (By the way Happy World Year of Physics) . As a
treat read Carlo Rovelli's http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_2.html#rovelli
idea on his belief of time being "an artifact of the approximation in
which we disregard the large majority of the degrees of freedom of
reality" Also check out Lee Smolin's response
http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_5.html#smolin. Lots of great meta-reading
amongst all the responses. By the way talking about reading what was
everyones favorite book of 2004? Mine was definitely Sync by Stephen
Strogatz, a book describing the way different systems self synchronize.
It inspired me to do a lighting installation that reflects the transfer
of energy amongst natural systems. It's showing in a gallery in Toronto
now but gets unplugged this weekend :( . I'll try to put a quicktime up
somewhere so you can see it. All the best in 2005 and hope to see some
of you in person this year.
Jim
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