You know, I can not remember the title. He wrote it while he was completing a PhD in Physics while studying the magnetic field at the University of Texas in Austin. He never published it. It was quite long however. This was back in the late 80s and early 90s and at that time I was still thinking in older "themes", consequently I was also still somewhat married to these resonant ideas and was taken aback by Greg's thought that the soliton could be extracted from space and time. If it exists it just was space/time of Einstein and no national security issues could ever arise from its non-science fiction status. Now, that you mention it, I guess I will ask him for a copy. He probably has it backed up somewhere if he has lost his hard copies.
As to how phenomeonlogical thermodynamics and Figenbaum's (kinematic) interest in Goethe's SUBJECTIVE theory of light are concerned.... well that will take me forever even given Newtonian physics.
Yes, indeed when I first ran across an older version of Georgi's work at Mann Library of Cornell I had given it no more thought than the many different attempts to speak greatly in biology relative to standards but even within that cognition I was struck by the attempt to single out a level of hierarchy between the molecule and macromolecule determinately. This notion of supramolecularity had never been taught in Chemistry Class by Nobel Laurets and I had already found that "density" was not suffient to explain diversity. (The biologists were all on about "density-dependent" populations etc). This notion however was not original with Dr. Gladyshev.
What was impressive from the biological standpoint was that it "seemed" to deal with thermodynamics in ways that were defintely correct when compared to how it was handled in evolutionary theory prior. This of course did not mean as you thought that we need necessarily import Russian water all of a sudden (I dont know if there are any patents in the US or on your side of this water even today). So when I first correspnded with Dr.Gladyshev I had started to say that I would need to understand statistical mechanics BEFORE I could really get into what he was doing EVEN THOUGH I HAD READ FROM HIM IN PRINT THAT THIS WAS NOT NECESSARY. He wrote back EXACTLY what he had already written. That might not be a sign for you that the person corresponded with knows what they are talking about but when it comes from me I always have changed my thought before I write back so I knew it was correct. Suffice it to say that by reading Schrodinger on statistical physics and some early textbooks on the subject I DO understand that the differential equation set up IS different. I had never found a need before to use this much math in biology because the best applied mathematicians were stuck on a particular model or some issue relative to density dependence ONLY. I need to write a lot of physics now.
I am 40 and it took me this long to master biology. I hope it doesnt take that long with physics and math needed to continue.
Now, it may be that this will change some of physics. I would be too exicted about that possiblity but I can sense that. That is probably something you do not. I dont know.
As to biology (and the hyberbolic reference to "behavior" inter thread alia) it has enabled me to think through the history of the discovery of the genetic code in NEW ways. I am now able to think about how male garter snakes might be able to have adpated macrothermodynamics to "fake" a female lipid stucture. I can concieve of dynamic relations between glycogen decomposition biochemistry and Gladyshev's law, and I have a 'new' idea that recombination (as a genetic concept) and chaismata formation are seperable in such a way that one can dispense with Weismann sholarship when discussing if an adpative oversight occurred OR what the significance of non-adaptive traits are.
These are all ongoing "threads of thought" and by pursuing all of them I doubt the design of them could ever be elimiated as Ruse reports that certain evos and philosophers of science would like to see scientific creationism disposed to.
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