Lewis Carroll: The Hunting of the CC Snark

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Re: Lewis Carroll: The Hunting of the CC Snark

Post by dvgrn » November 19th, 2019, 4:10 pm

Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote:
November 16th, 2019, 3:03 am
dvgrn wrote:
October 29th, 2018, 6:46 am
the reaction needs support by the same spark twice, fifteen ticks apart.
No: the first spark is doesn't affect evolution.
Yeah, I didn't say that quite right. A hypothetical stable catalyst found by Bellman would have to be placed in a location where it would be affected by the active reaction at T=34 -- whether or not it affected the evolution of the active reaction -- and then again at T=49. Maybe some kind of toggle reaction would work, where the first touch would change the catalyst somehow, and the second touch would put it back the way it was before.

I'm not good enough with Bellman to know whether it's even vaguely reasonable to search for two interactions 15 ticks apart. But in general, the longer the restabilization takes, the harder it is to search for it. So I'm sticking with my vague assessment that "several of the previously posted reactions look to me like more likely targets..."

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