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Re: the optimizing spider

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Date	2022-05-14 11:51 -0700
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Subject	Re: the optimizing spider
From	Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com>

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On Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 11:01:19 AM UTC-7, RichD wrote:
> ...calculus chokes at the rim's discontinuity. 

Calculus doesn't choke, and anyway there is no need for calculus in this riddle, since it's just a straight line on a flat surface (unfolded) between two specified points at the opposite corners of a rectangle with edges lengths 4" and 3".

> Ergo, photons are smarter than neurons. 

The question involved a spider, and it takes the average person about 0.5 seconds to see the answer, but the spider wouldn't follow that path.  Regarding photons, you can't just "release a photon" and expect it to find its way to the fly, and even if you release many photons, or use "optimum aiming" which a human brain figures out, and you consider a particular reception event, it isn't correct to naively say that the photon followed the stationary path, because the amplitude of reaching that event is the sum of the amplitudes for all possible paths, and from considering the constructive and destructive interference effects of the complex amplitudes we can derive the approximate "straight line" dominance for long range massless interactions in empty space.  True, simulating continuous quantum phenomena computationally can be difficult, which is why some people expect quantum computers to surpass classical computers for some tasks... such as calculation the behavior of quantum systems!

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the optimizing spider RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2022-05-12 11:59 -0700
  Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-12 15:33 -0700
    Re: the optimizing spider Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-13 09:29 +0300
      Re: the optimizing spider Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2022-05-13 00:19 -0700
        Re: the optimizing spider "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2022-05-15 14:41 -0700
      Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-13 06:34 -0700
        Re: the optimizing spider RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2022-05-13 14:12 -0700
          Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-13 16:23 -0700
        Re: the optimizing spider Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-14 10:57 +0300
          Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-14 01:27 -0700
            Re: the optimizing spider Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-15 10:42 +0300
              Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-15 08:30 -0700
                Re: the optimizing spider Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-15 19:33 +0300
                Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-15 10:56 -0700
                Re: the optimizing spider Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-16 09:06 +0300
                Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-15 23:34 -0700
              Re: the optimizing spider RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2022-05-16 12:01 -0700
                Re: the optimizing spider Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-17 10:59 +0300
                Re: the optimizing spider RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2022-05-17 11:16 -0700
                Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-17 11:55 -0700
          Re: the optimizing spider Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2022-05-15 05:42 -0700
      Re: the optimizing spider RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2022-05-13 13:40 -0700
        Re: the optimizing spider Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2022-05-13 20:03 -0500
          Re: the optimizing spider RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2022-05-14 11:01 -0700
            Re: the optimizing spider Stan Fultoni <fultonistan@gmail.com> - 2022-05-14 11:51 -0700
    Re: the optimizing spider RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2022-05-13 13:35 -0700
  Re: the optimizing spider rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2022-05-12 18:16 -0700

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