Message-ID: <20020204155614.6495.qmail@web11103.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 07:56:14 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Welch Subject: RE: Megami Technical FAQ To: megami@ml.usagi.org In-Reply-To: <20020204142043.46116.qmail@web10806.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: megami@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk --- Sam the man wrote: > > You might want to use > > analogies dealing with > > computers instead, given that Yggdrasil is more > like one than a TV station. > > Gonna have to disagree with you here. Despite the > fact > that a computer analogy would be more in tune with > the > AMS cosmology it wouldn't be anywhere as elegant an > explanation as Brian's TV one. Full marks. Not mine, actually, it was Feyman's. ^_^ Since Fujishima decided to use string theory, I'm going to stick with the analogies the string theory community uses to explain themselves. Given the fact that Yggdrasil is a computer, an analogy of a bit stream from Yggdrasil (Nidhog as well?) feeding (programming?) the superstring would be a good idea. I have no idea of an analogy to explain the emulation/reconstruction bit, though. It's obvious Yggdrasil isn't just a data processor if it can do stuff like that. Brian W.