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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Fibonacci
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:44:42 -0600
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From: "Jason S. Clary" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Fibonacci
> I'm really looking forward to the new 59 dimensional point coordinates
> with the new panel from FTDNA.


And Einstein was so disturbed by more than 10
> dimensions that he fudged his math a bit so it didn't require 23. Good
> thing he wasn't a population geneticist.

You got your science history a little out of wack, I think. Einstein died
about 1953/54 or so. String theory, which is the culprit for proposals of
such high dimensionality of the physical world did not come along until
decades later. And string theory is still divorced of any connection with
observation, though they still keep trying to make some.

But imagining the haplotype frequency distribution in 43 dimensional "SMGF
haplotype space", or whatever other dimension you need for your haplotype,
is actually quite productive, albeit difficult to illustrate on paper.

Ken


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