Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.moat.net!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 00:31:47 -0600 Reply-To: "Laconic2" From: "Laconic2" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory References: <7dF9c.3707$z%1.1999@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com> <9aie60p88f5p07u0osaud08km55aq03cri@4ax.com> <40683998$0$6575$4d4ebb8e@read.news.nl.uu.net> <406bd266$0$5070$4d4ebb8e@read.news.nl.uu.net> <406c1d7c$0$5058$4d4ebb8e@read.news.nl.uu.net> <7cadnVFbnulxVvPdRVn-hQ@comcast.com> Subject: Re: Primary Key Theory Question Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 01:32:24 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.60.68.134 X-Trace: sv3-ippcoA6QTJ5v54xcx9bwHl/nuq8u5DAU6YgZd3QHzWr50B2Mty1FwDSMrsX3OeGBiAfiVWg2OMpodNy!GhruE5uZAXk0Nm7lnu4xeB+lKCymxJKSGUPUQOBIxo/ld0MCimG6Kl1s7xlV X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.theory:24975 It is not clear whether the natural universe is, in fact, divided into "objects" with "identity" or not. In some world views, the inherent unity of the universe is real, and the divided state of the universe is, "maya", or illusion. I don't think this way, myself. But modern physics flirts with this notion every now and then. The nearer our destination, namely finding the ultimate "atomic" particles, the really indivisible ones, the more it keeps slip siding away. By "atoms", I don't mean those things they figured out how to split in the last century. I mean the things that can't be split, if there are any such.