(July 16, 2013 at 10:29 pm)Consilius Wrote: If the connections between the parts are weak, the machine becomes weak.
And if there are no connections?
(July 16, 2013 at 10:29 pm)Consilius Wrote: Sodium chloride is a chemical compound and not a mixture. The parts do not retain their attributes. Neither sodium nor chloride can be picked out in their original form.
What are you saying? That once the parts become part of the whole the whole does not display attributes of the parts? Good, we agree then.
(July 16, 2013 at 10:29 pm)Consilius Wrote: Bodies of water appear to have changed their attribute of colorlessness because of an outside influence—light. Simply being in one place does not make clear water turn blue. It needs light to do it, which may or may not be present in a particular state. Being in a dark place does not change the color of a white table.
The element of light is present when we consider the parts as well. The very light under which the drops of water are colorless, the whole is blue. Sorry, try again.
(July 16, 2013 at 10:29 pm)Consilius Wrote: The Earth is small to the universe. The Earth is big to you. You can't be ultimately one way or the other.
Oxygen is colorless to me. Oxygen is colorless to a deer. Oxygen is colorless to Napoleon.
The atoms are invisible to me. The atoms are invisible to a deer. The atoms are invisible to Napoleon.