Fascinating Ray
Does anyone know whether the gravity constant G was the same back in the
Jurassic when critters were huge?

While I don't understand chaos theory, I do like Catastrophe Theory (Rene
Thom) which is much simpler and should be taught in senior high school.
Maths is always taught around continuous flowing graphs. Biology is all
about interruptions and failures.
A simple catastrophe is a light switch, increasing ppressure leads to small
movement, and then "crack" a catastrophe. The same with snow avalanches,
pipes bursting under pressure, ants pupating, hearts stopping etc.

Ben Balzer

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Subject: Re: Simple Caloric Calculus

Simple thermodynamics does not predict results in complex chaotic systems.
That's why Benot Mandelbrot invented the mathematics of biology, Fractual 
Geometry, in 1975.

On a recent NOVA program (PBS) about fractals they gave the formula 
for energy/weight calculations;

E=M^.75 (energy equals mass to the 3/4 power)

Thus an elephant that weighs 200,000 times more than a mouse only requires 
10,000 times as many calories  to maintain weight.  When calories are 
restricted, the body tries to become more efficient by becoming bigger. 
Thus 
the finding that the average person that reduces calories gains 15% of body 
weight in numerous long-term studies.

Ray Audette