Cool. Slightly off-topic, re: John Conway -- Some tangential wiki-ing led me to (what I think is) the even more interesting Look-and-say sequence & Conway's cos

Cool. Slightly off-topic, re: John Conway -- Some tangential wiki-ing led me to (what I think is) the even more interesting Look-and-say sequence & Conway's cosmological theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence I'm not sure how far the atomic element analogy can be extended, but on its face it seems a little mind-blowing.