Subject: Fwd: System types in evolution based on topology? Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:26:21 +0100 From: Andrew_Baker >Envelope-to: a.baker@maths.gla.ac.uk >From: "Gerard Jagers" >To: >Subject: System types in evolution based on topology? >Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:42:07 +0200 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 >X-Status: >X-Keywords: > >Dear A. Baker, > >would someone within the topology circles be interested to help me puzzle >on a possible topological explanation for the regularity I observe in the >sequence of system types that have occurred so far in (cosmic) evolution >(from quarks, via hadrons, atoms, multiatoms, cells, etc). A scheme that >shows the regularity has been published in Acta Biotheoretica 49: 171-189. >Problem for me is to define the hypercycles well enough (which I guess can >be regarded as a topology problem: that of hypercyclically closed >interactions between elements). Would there be any of the topologists >linked to your site that would like to do some puzzling on this subject >that connects system science and mathematics? > >Sincerely yours, Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis (PhD, postdoc, teamleader, 42 >years) Email: joa@hortinfo.com