Keith,
I can't speak for all, but I would love to see a more detailed statement of
this month's topic (I am not the man for the job as my physics background
is murky).
Maybe it would be helpful if whoever suggested this topic (way back when we
first compiled the "MoQ Problems" list) would:
(1) Point to some of the SPECIFIC passages in LILA that "describe an
evolutionary process which appears to take place within fixed parameters of
space and time"----- ("APPEARS to take place"??? --- Are we clear on
Pirsig's position here?
(2) Describe in at least some detail the particular scientific principles to
which the topic specifically refers (we know from physics space/time is not
fixed in what way?---Are we talking traditional Newtonian physics? Are we
talking about relativity? Or Quantum theory? Or what?), and
(3) Explain how the MoQ and those principles clash....
rick
>
> SPACE-TIME
> 8.1 The MOQ describes an evolutionary process which appears to take place
> within fixed parameters of space and time, yet we know from physics that
> space-time is not fixed in this way.
>
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