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Found after reading about Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile, an attempt to record his life in 15 minute increments. Not much is online, it's in the Stanford Library.pic.twitter.com/QHaXkPRTfl
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It sometimes bugs me that most elements in both our interfaces and our scientific theories are either verbs or nouns Random example, from Figma - everything here is a thing or an action I must admit, I don't know how either our interfaces or our theories could be any different!pic.twitter.com/GSChcLvgJ1
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Speculatively, it's a consequence of the signature of the Lorentz metric, +1, +1, +1, -1. If the universe had two time dimensions, for instance, I suspect we'd need much more interesting linguistic constructions than just verbs!
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That's a fun prompt: construct a language (well proto-language) that might be helpful in a universe with two time dimensions!
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Also fun to think about what interfaces might look like in such a universe.
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Thanks to
@CorneliusRoemer, for pointing out that I erroneously replaced the dash by a hyphen in the first tweet. I'm not sure what a thing-a noun is, sounds like some sort of escapee from the linguists' menagerie.Show this thread -
Related, Ken Liu's short story on what books might look like, for 5 alien species (via
@timoni): http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-bookmaking-habits-of-select-species/ … (In some sense, that's a much easier variant of the question about language in universes with different laws of physics.)Show this thread
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