Re: The Meaning of Life

From: Russell Standish <lists.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:19:39 +1100

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:58:58AM -0400, John Mikes wrote:
> In the sci-fi I wrote in 1988-89 I depicted the 'story' of human evolving as
> done
> by an experiment of aliens from another universe, to which I assigned
> "energy"
> with 3 (three) poles. One +, one -, and a THIRD one. (Maybe your math could
> formulate this, but I could not. I accepted it as something beyond our human
> mind.

The strong force has 3 "poles". To think about them in a human
fashion, we name them "red", "green" and "blue", and the theory
describing the strong force is called "quantum chromodynamics". It
doesn't seem beyond the human mind at all.

I dare say if we had a reason to have a theory with four poles,
someone will come up with a way of thinking about these too.

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