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From: "Jason S. Clary" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Fibonacci
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:01:54 -0700
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What I was referring to has nothing to do with String Theory. Einstein was
working on his own unified field theory at the end of his life. It never
worked.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Fibonacci


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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