X-Message-Number: 11646 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:10:09 -0400 From: "Raphael T. Haftka" <> Subject: Maybe we are computer simulations? Maybe we are already computer simulations? Thanks for Thomas Donaldson for summarizing the debate that he is having with Mike Perry. It could be that I have missed something, but how do you know that our `real' world is not a computer simulations in somebody's (possibly a teenager in some real universe, based on how well things are going) computer? Rafi Haftka ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Raphael (Rafi) Haftka University of Florida phone:352-392-9595 Department of Aerospace Engineering, fax: -7303 Mechanics and Engineering Science http://www.aero.ufl.edu/~haftka Gainesville, FL 32611 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Check the web page of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization at http://www.aero.ufl.edu/~issmo for details of the next MicroAV competition as well as the next ISSMO Congress in Buffalo, May 17-21 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11646