that guy has way too much time on his hands...he should go off-roading or something!
BUT, that's pretty amazing, and he makes it look so simple.
BUT, that's pretty amazing, and he makes it look so simple.
Great Movie.uphill said:When I saw it, I thought immediately of Ockham's Razor.
William of Ockham was a Franciscan Friar who lived in the 1300's. Essentially, his principle states: "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities.
Who knows how the ancients did it, but this does fit within the principle of what William of Ockham said a long time ago.
A bit of trivia: Umberto Eco wrote a book, later a feature film staring Sean Connery called, The Name of the Rose. Eco's main character, William of Baskerville (played by Connery) is based loosely on the historical William of Ockham. I recommend the movie highly. Along with his apprentice Adso of Melk (named after the Benedictine abbey Stift Melk, a historical figure), the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville journeys to an abbey where a murder has been committed. As the plot unfolds, several other people mysteriously die. The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the Inquisition. It is left primarily to William's enormous powers of logic and deduction to solve the mysteries of the abbey.