Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 28, 2026, 06:15 PMThere is math behind it. Fine then, I'll bore myself with it. Gravity in this case is math.
I'll go with gravity can be described by math, but it isn't math. I'd throw that one in the physics category. I got this great piece of advice from a PhD Air Force Academy physics professor.
There are only two things that matter in the Universe, one is the laws of physics, as they are the rules of the game. The second is the will of man. We call that "economics".
The Seneca effect is an interesting idea. When Ugo and I discussed it he was willing to admit that it certainly wasn't a "end of world" nonsense scenario that some had tried to twist it into, and on Facebook said he might look into researching the far side of other examples to see what he could see.
I will stand by the comment that he shouldn't have linked it to Hubbert's normal looking distribution, as neither Ugo, nor Hubbert, were familiar with discovery process modeling, an idea that came along in print a few years after Hubbert's 1956 work. Arps and Roberts, if memory serves. 1958. Hubbert has an excuse as to why, Ugo should have done better research. His lack of education in the field in question was probably a significant handicap.