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MineralMan

(149,511 posts)
1. Smells like teen spirit to me.
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 05:35 PM
Feb 2012

When you make the jump from physics to theosophy and Madame Blavatsky, you leap off of a very high building, indeed, and the odds of surviving the plunge are not good at all.

Combining the word Sacred with Geometry is another sort of leap, one that is across a gaping chasm as deep as the Grand Canyon. Once again, gravity will out, and the landing will be spectacularly gory. Worst of all, the angle will still not be trisected.

If you write a book about the "Mathematical connection between religion and science," the woo becomes enormous, and is not unlike jumping off an aircraft carrier in the middle of the Atlantic in the middle of the night while it's at flank speed. Despite all the thrashing around you'll do if you survive the fall in the first place, you will surely drown in a sea of woo.

That's what I think.

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