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   On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:49:10 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/9/2026 2:49 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >That's one answer to The Three-Body Fortune. Thanks.   
   >   
   >Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the   
   >belief that life is meaningless. YMMV.   
      
   That's the thing.  Moral principles need not be meaningful.  It is   
   enough to have them and understand their worth to a meaningless human   
   being.   
   >   
   >>> 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   
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   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
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