Engineering

Text for Senior Seminar, CE-401, at the University of Kentucky, Department of Civil Engineering. An excellent desktop reference for civil engineers in practice regarding the non-technical aspects of engineering practice

The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. Machine languages and natural languages spoken by people differ in that the signals of machine languages have sharply defined meanings, while the meanings of signals of natural languages are highly fuzzy. Werner Rupprecht explains how vague meanings arise in the brains of human beings, and that, paradoxically, owing to such vagueness, people are able to gain insights that machines cannot. He explains in detail the links between information theoretical entropy, thermodynamic entropy and energy, describes the sensory ...

This is a speculative analysis of various engineering methods by which ancient structures might have been made and constructed using only the materials present and available to the people then living ... without recourse to "magic" or "alien" intervention. This is not necessarily what 'was' done ... it is what 'might' have been done. [with numerous illustrations of plausible machines and methods]