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Emergy, etc
You posted your comment on my talk page, instead of User:24.159.243.21, the one with the vendetta against you. I was able to convince him that these were real things. My doctoral advisor was a student of Odum's - I'm the last person who would be critical of this stuff. Guettarda 02:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
- Truth is, I am not an ecosystem ecologist, not of Odum's school in that sense at all. I will keep an eye on the articles, but you need to vote Keep on the AfDs. Guettarda 03:27, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Style notes
Just a note on style with some of your edits. There's no need for all the excessive bold and italics. If you put something in <nohtml>
</nohtml> it should be an actual quote and have an attribution. If it's not a quote, don't use the blockquote tag. For most quotes you should just use "quotation marks." Take a look at some of my edits on Principles of energetics for an idea on how to do this. A lot of those quotes there either need attributions (or they are not quotes at all, it was hard to tell.) Thanks. Peyna 04:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Please see my recent post at Talk:Principles_of_energetics. Thanks. Peyna 04:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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Ah yes. Ok just getting used to the rules!!! Sholto Maud 21:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Re: Who's Odum? and AFD nominations
I've been away all day and just saw your note. I didn't nominate any of your articles for deletion. It was 24.159.243.211. Thanks.
Maximum power, maximum empower
All I'm looking for in these articles is an explanation of the ecological concepts they refer to, rather than merely a statement that the ecological concepts exist and Odum developed them. You are correct that without such explanation they are not worth much, but the answer to that is fixing them, not deleting them. The material I removed was not about ecology at all; it was about electronics and thermodynamics. Gazpacho 21:18, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Principles of energetics
Hi, Sholto, I happen to know enough about ecology to know something about Odum's contribs to that subject, but I also know quite a bit about physics and math, and I am with Linas and others on this: the present article is sadly deficient:
- doesn't clarify whether you are
- summarizing Odum's writings
- summarizing writings by other ecologists commenting on his early work,
- making your own proposals
- lacks any real content.
It's nice that you added some citations, but citations are only the beginning: a good encyclopedia article fairly and accurately summarizes whats in the research literature, including a fair and accurate description of any controversies.
It would be helpful if you added to your user page more information regarding your own background in ecology and thermodynamics.---CH 03:14, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
User:136.186.1.118
Why is this user making edits to your user page here and are they valid? I would have reverted them but they don't really look like the work of a vandal.CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
- Thought that's what it was but just wanted to be sure. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:31, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Received Giannantoni's book
Sholto, that's for the tip on the book. It looks interesting so far; especially about the part on speculations of fifth and sixth laws of thermodynamics - that made me laugh! I'll let you know when I get up towards page 50-100. Later:--Wavesmikey 12:35, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Human Thermodynamics
Oh hey re: human thermodynamics you might be interested to follow up some of the info at including the CD book http://www.actionlove.com/ if your server will allow you to view it. Sholto Maud 03:19, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- Sholto, thanks for the input; however, regarding the "thermodynamic sex" project, that is not exactly the idea. Rather, for example, when asked, people will quickly recall their "hottest" ever day of sex. Technically, heat defines as energy in transit. The question remains: what specific combination of "energy in transit" dynamics operated or functioned during the 20 years prior to this eventful day such to have instilled this irreversible path towards spontaneous atomic exchange? The actual act of sex is rather trivial. It is the elusive multi-year thermodynamically-defined chemical reaction mechanism occuring between two symbiotic reacting molecules that bends the mind to curiosity.
- See the following links for further ideas:
- Let me know what you think of these links. Later:--Wavesmikey 04:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Sholto, where is the "exact" link for this hypothesis: a couple involved in a sexual act form a bioelectric circuit, which is fundamental to understanding the energy and heat dynamics of the coupling? The page you referred me to contains over 100 links, mostly being sexual dysfunction topics. This hypothesis, however, is very close to reality. Always remember though, human life is nothing more then the process of: "molecules reacting over substrate". An electric circuit implies the flow of charged particles through a conducting circuit due to the presence of a potential difference . This definition applies in the human case, with adjustments; see:
Curiously, last week I just started reading Csikszentmihalyi’s (1990) Flow – the Psychology of Optimal Experience; here Csikszentmihalyi finds correlation between his experiences of “flow”, i.e. the state of concentration so focused that it amounts to absolute absorption in an activity, during rock-climbing to analogous human life processes. Interestingly, over the course of 30 years he studies highly accomplished people as artists, athletes, musicians, chess masters, and surgeons using a technique called the Experience Sampling Method, which involves asking people to where an electronic pager and to write down how they feel, what they were doing, and what they were thinking about when randomly paged throughout the week. The term “flow” was coined during Csikszentmihalyi’s 1975 interviews where several people described their “flow” experiences using the metaphor of a current carrying them along. Based on these sorts of reports, I am presently theorizing over how this process actually works in reality via actual nuclei, atoms, molecules, and photonic mechanisms. Thus, if you have an exact link similar this sort of discussion then please refer me to it. Thanks:--Wavesmikey 10:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)