I don't think I agree. The edge of the observable universe is as far as we can see. It doesn't matter what's beyond it. We can't see it in any event. ...
Great examples. I wonder if physics allows for anything that's totally transparent to all energy. Dark matter is transparent to everything except grav...
As someone who finds the doctrine of possible worlds incoherent, I don't see why logic and math couldn't be different in some alternate world, just as...
How do you know? In general, what propositions are logically true? Most people would agree that mathematical propositions are logically true. I myself...
If 2 + 2 = 5 then I am the Pope. That's a true implication. Another true implication is that if 2 + 2 = 5 then I am NOT the Pope. Likewise, "If the CM...
I think I acknowledged that already. I hope someone else will take this up. I honestly don't understand the question. I can only express incredulity t...
Like I say, what color would you like it to be? If you're talking possible worlds, I suppose there's a world where there's a transparent CMB and behin...
You made a claim that you did acknowledge my proof three years ago. If that were true you could produce your post doing so. But you can't because you ...
I do understand that you're asking what we'd see if the CMB were transparent. It's not logically possible for the CMB to be transparent, because its e...
No, I'm a failed math grad student. @"jgill" is a mathematician. Me too, of the people who worked harder and had better study habits than I did. My ze...
You'd see the CMB. Just as if you point a radio telescope to the sky where there aren't any galaxies in the way. I don't follow your point. Transparen...
Everything is pretty much transparent. Once we get above our atmosphere there's nothing between us and the cosmic microwave background. Which we can "...
That's a lot different than knowing any physics. And really, I don't know all that much math. I didn't say geometric unity is bunk, just that I couldn...
Nobody does. Weinstein won't publish. When the OP started this thread I Googled and read about 10 articles on Weinstein's geometric unity project, and...
For the record: You do deny that 2 + 2 and 4 represent the same mathematical object. Is that correct? Why are you going on about this? We've had this ...
You pointedly ignored it for three years. It's a basic proof that 2 + 2 = 4 from the Peano axioms. I had a perfectly good grasp of the law of identity...
You never even bothered to acknowledge my proof. I asked you repeatedly to criticize it or disagree with it and you just ignored those posts too. And ...
Neo-anti-Darwinist David Berlinski says that Dennett's most impressive achievement is his beard. I haven't actually read Dennett's argument but I must...
The proof shows that the two expressions denote the same mathematical object. But we're making progress. For three years (has it been that long?) you ...
I don't believe I have ever said that you deny 2 + 2 = 4. I am always careful to note that you deny that 2 + 2 and 4 denote the same mathematical obje...
Make sure you obsess about him night and day. And never ever spend a moment reflecting on the conditions and factors that led to his unlikely rise, an...
@"Metaphysician Undercover" is on record stating that he does not believe that 2 + 2 and 4 denote the same mathematical object. He's wrong but confirm...
Could this have been a language issue? Everyone in the US has the right to own a house, but many lack the money. Is that what you meant? That everyone...
Are you under the impression that this is a unique or deep insight? That's the sense I get. That you think everyone else doesn't already know this. Yo...
I was confused by this remark. In the US doesn't everyone have the right to own a house? Can you give an example of anyone who lacks the right to own ...
I've been watching a lot of what I call the neo-anti-Darwinists on Youtube lately. You know how it is, you click on one video and you immediately get ...
This happens at earthy distances too. Your friend, in the same room with you, flips a coin, which lands on the floor. The coin has landed either heads...
You're off on some strange tangent. Someone alluded to a recent discovery in physics. You asked what it was. I gave you a link to a New York Times art...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution https://www.amazon.com/Prostitute-Studies-Jungian-Psychology-Analysts/dp/0919123317 "Sometimes a cig...
I understand this remark even less than I do your claim that 2 + 2 and 4 don't represent the same mathematical object. Do you object to the entire pro...
This is Penrose's idea of conformal cyclic cosmology. It's a purely speculative idea that nobody takes too seriously, but many of Penrose's bad ideas ...
2 + 2 = 4. In other science news, the muons are misbehaving. It could be a very big deal, indicating a new force of nature. Additional confirmation is...
It's even worse that you do understand your loss of freedom but pretended not to. Why exactly did you do that? After all you could have just as easily...
Hence the salience of my point. "They thought they were free." You're the classic example. You brag of your freedom but it turns out you don't care ab...
You know, this morning I remembered that Australia is a member of the Five Eyes. From Wiki: As an Australian, your every online activity, your phone c...
This year it's the virus. It's always something. And the restrictions on human freedom are always seen as necessary; and those questioning those restr...
Not at all. "I don't feel like things are different" is a terrible way to evaluate your society's loss of freedom. I'm old enough to remember when the...
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in ...
The Chinese social credit system is most definitely coming to a bankrupt empire near you. Just this very morning, Janet Yellen called for a global min...
Correct. This is from an article arguing against vaccine passports on civil liberties grounds. Worth your time to read, slightly (but not completely) ...
So's syphilis. Without taking a position on the covid vaccine, what kind of reason is that to do anything? (ps -- Yes I know you were responding to so...
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