I wrote <<The above recipe violates no physics in itself, but when
snails are added to the picture one must recognize frank materialization
out of a fourth dimension to account for the details that are actually
observed.>>
You wrote <<Ah, those 4th dimension snail. I understand now. Physics
explains it all except for the snails who happened to live in that
area.>>
Thank you for the taunt, Pim. The statement in question would have been
better put in these words:
... but when snails are added to the picture one must recognize the
frank materialization OF POWDER out of the fourth dimension in order to
account for the details that are actually observed. In fact, the said
powder actually materialized within the bodies of the snails, converting
them into masses of mud not obviously different from the rest of the
nodule. If you can account for these objects without recourse to an
added dimension of space, pray do so.
I wrote <<I am bit surprised and dismayed that you would offer such a
simplistic mechanism to account for the loessian nodules. Certainly this
reasoning would carry no weight whatever before an audience that had
Plates 32 to 40 of Petersen's book before them. >>
You wrote <<This is not an argument Joseph.>>
Quite right. It is evidence.
You wrote <<So what evidence of this 4th dimension exists ? Any
predictions ? Any observations ? Anything ?>>
See above.
You wrote <<Other than the 'snails' of course. Although I believe for
snails to be explained satisfactorily, one has to propose at least three
additional dimension.>>
Proceed a bit further and you may arrive. If you have the book, look at
Plates 32-40.
Joseph