--- "Joseph S. Barrera III" <joe at barrera.org> wrote:
> I'm sure it relates to the fact that the 2-body
> problem is solvable
> but the n-body (n > 2) problem is not. Pertubation
> theory is of no
> help when the bodies are all roughly of the same
> size (psychologically
> even if not physically).
Finally an argument in defense of newtonian relationships :)
===== The real world gives the subset of what is; the product space represents the uncertainty of the observer. The product space may therefore change if the observer changes; and two observers may legitimately use different product spaces within which to record the same subset of actual events in some actual thing. The "constraint" is thus a relation between observer and thing; the properties of any particular constraint will depend on both the real thing and on the observer. It follows that a substantial part of the theory of organization will be concerned with properties that are not intrinsice to the thing but are relational between observer and thing.
W. Ross Ashby
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