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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Continuos vs. discrete models Was: The size of electrons, ...
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 07:26:05 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- References: <1992Nov17.003058.127@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1eblgoINNj5@chnews.intel.com> <Nov.17.22.13.13.1992.11029@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Nov.17.22.13.13.1992.11029@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
- >Let's put a stop to this. Cells are not cellular automata and I don't
- >think you could find too many respectable biologists who would use
- >cellular automata in their studies. They're too busy studying cells.
- >Anyone who thinks a cell is a finite state machine needs to read some
- >biology.
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- How then would you describe the microscopic stresses
- on an oak beam?
-
- --Blair
- "The Larch.
- The Llllarch."
-