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Originally Posted by skip spence
Haha lovely stuff Morth!  I have missed this place.
As for Marwhini, just do what you wanna do I guess. *shrugs* |
That is my plan.
I hadn't much hope that anyone would understand the issues I am trying to address to begin with.
It would be nice to have a bit more help in creating a detailed Foundation for the Operation of Middle-earth than the current Four of us (and I am currently the only one with much time to spend on it, while the fake bone in my leg grows into the real one).
And when I can regularly walk again, it will be back to studying Intestinal Villi and Oligosaccharides and Glycoproteins.
It is difficult to find people with a strong enough Science background to begin with, much less a deal of Interdisciplinary Study as well.
And while that isn't necessary to Enjoy Tolkien's work, it is important in figuring out how Middle-earth would function were it an actual place (what would necessarily be True if Middle-earth existed as described).
We have worked out the basic Philosophical/Theological/Metaphysical Structures that would be True if Middle-earth was an Instantiation of some sort (i.e. "It existed"). But getting the varying specifics is a tedious lot of work.
Fortunately, having the basic Foundation allows for much of the rest to simply fall out of the workings. It is exploring these for any more complex interactions or Contradictions that is the hard part (not being able to actually set up functional experiments is a bit of a draw-back).
Eventually Wolfram Research will have a
World Modeling (other than
Mathematica and
Wolfram|Alpha - which could be used if I wanted to spend 5 to 10 years hard-coding the physics) tool that will allow for simulating such experiments. But Stephan Wolfram has said they are about 5 years from having the basic structure set up, much less an API that would allow for the addition of other Physics to operate within the Simulations and Models as well.
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