Notes from Meeting, 20th Oct 06

Began discussing a skeleton for Lecture in Copenhagen - particularly trying to establish a link between software art and the art of John Latham and other proponents of event-structures in the 60s and 70s.

Colm and Simon to meet again next week with specific case studies from both periods with which we can then make this conceptual link.

What "Flat Time" isn't

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What "Flat Time" isn't.

"Flat Time" isn't a formal scientific theory resulting from an expensive and prolonged research project involving a great deal of practical experimentation in a laboratory. (An attempt was made in 2001 to obtain funding for just such an academic research project to test the proposals of "Flat Time" by practical experiment and extensive computer modelling, working with the Quantum Gravity Department of Imperial College London. However the funding application failed to focus sufficiently on the economic profits that might arise from the potential applications for "Flat Time" in the commercial world. Luckily for the rest of us, neither the Special nor General theories of Relativity, nor the theoretical process that lead to Quantum Mechanics were ever required to satisfy such an unscientific agenda. It is clear that atomic power and quantum computing which directly derived from such theoretical advances proved of massive commercial significance. However, profit potential alone is not an acceptable or feasible qualifier for the relevance of radical scientific thought, or research as it must by definition come after the fact.