From: William (williamweb@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 17:18:02 MDT
> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:33:29 -0700
> From: "Jef Allbright" <jef@jefallbright.net>
> Subject: Re: The magic of integration
Isn't the Planck constant - a quantum of energy - the physics of a
infinitesimal? or is it Avagadro's number somehow? - Bill.
>
> As far as I know, infinitesimals are a useful concept for thinking and
> modeling in a platonic sense, but have never been observed in nature. In
a
> related sense, I think it was Buckminster Fuller who said something like
he
> doubted "that nature calculates pi every time it wants to make a soap
> bubble."
> - - Jef
>
> >Ross writes
> >
> >Infinity is a great thing, it exists between any two points in the
> >continuum between those two points.
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