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   On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 12:30:35 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/9/2026 9:37 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:29:18 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2/8/2026 1:43 PM, Tara wrote:   
   >>>> Julian  wrote:   
   >>>>> What You Name Things Matters, how you treat people matters and why your   
   >>>>> day is a dynamical system, how to avoid thing you don't want, and why   
   >>>>> what looks like luck is really a navigational skill   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> There is a problem in physics that has haunted mathematicians since   
   >>>>> Newton. Three masses in space, each pulling on the other two through   
   >>>>> gravity. Unlike two bodies — which orbit each other in neat, predictable   
   >>>>> ellipses — three bodies produce trajectories that are exquisitely   
   >>>>> sensitive to the tiniest change in starting conditions. Henri Poincaré   
   >>>>> proved in 1890 that there is no general solution. The system is   
   >>>>> deterministic. It follows fixed laws. And it is, in any practical sense,   
   >>>>> unpredictable.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> You are a three-body problem.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Not metaphorically. Not loosely. Structurally. You are three masses in   
   >>>>> mutual gravitational interaction, and the dynamics of your day — whether   
   >>>>> it soars, spirals, or collapses — follow the same mathematics...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://mattkilcoyne.substack.com/p/the-three-body-fortune   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> :)   
   >>>>   
   >>> Finally, something interesting to talk about and post comment for   
   >>> discussion. Thanks.   
   >>>   
   >>> The historical Buddha, 563 to 483 B.C, taught that cause and effect,   
   >>> rooted in the law of karma were based on intentional actions. All   
   >>> voluntary actions of body, speech, and mind produce corresponding   
   >>> reactions. Supposedly, positive actions lead to happiness, while   
   >>> negative ones result in suffering, shaping an individual's experiences   
   >>> across lifetimes.   
   >>>   
   >>> Everything that happens, is caused by something else that causes it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Then come the thinkers from Greece.   
   >>>   
   >>> Aristotle, 384–322 BCE, who is generally credited with the first formal,   
   >>> systematic theory of causality in Western philosophy, established the   
   >>> the law of cause was that there is a specific cause or set of causes.   
   >>>   
   >>> He outlined the "four causes"—material, formal, efficient, and final—in   
   >>> his works Physics and Metaphysics to explain why things exist and change.   
   >>>   
   >>> So, one thing leads to another, since the beginning of Time.   
   >>>   
   >>> Speaking time.   
   >>>   
   >>> How does all that fit in with Albert Einstein, the thinker who first   
   >>> established the special theory of relativity in 1905 and the general   
   >>> theory of relativity by 1915?   
   >>   
   >> What caused him to do that?   
   > >   
   >That's like asking what was the First Cause?   
      
   Yes, and it is turtles all the way down.  There is no escaping it.   
      
   And we have enough excuses for mindlessness without that one.   
      
   >In the thinker's mind they all probably used logic and observation, and   
   >then brain cells triggered critical thinking.   
   >   
   >Everything is relative to something else. Time, space, and gravity are   
   >interconnected rather than absolute. Einstein posited that the speed of   
   >light is constant, time slows down at high speeds, and gravity is the   
   >warping of spacetime by mass.   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain   
   Don't get political with me young man   
   or I'll tie you to a railroad track and   
   <<>> to <<>>   
   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
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