[Beowulf] Not quite Walmart, or, living without ECC?

[Jim Lux]

At 11:23 AM 11/16/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Joe Landman wrote:
>
>>Robert G. Brown wrote:
>>
>>...
>>
>>>peculiar standing waves that echo those words in the meta-structure of
>>>electricity we fondly call "the brain".
>>
>>Hey... I thought there is some chemistry in there as well.  People 
>>spend so much time in pursuit of hacking their brain chemistry, I 
>>thought it was for more than simply altering the electronic 
>>structure of it ... (electronic structure of jellium?)
>
>Chemistry is just quantum electrostatics -- hardly even any "dynamics".
>Nuclear forces, irrelevant, magnetic forces, nearly irrelevant (and
>still "electricity" in some sense), gravity too weak to do much of
>anything unless you're near a black hole.
>
>Electricity is all.  Hail electricity.
>
>    rgb


and magnetism