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I'm confused by your post. You make the correct point that the math is just a model of reality, not reality itself. Then you say that the thing DOES h...
March 11, 2021 at 21:43
Didn't read back to find the source of the quote, but sqrt(2) is certainly computable. For example you can use a standard iterative procedure.
March 11, 2021 at 21:36
Can you explain this to @"Metaphysician Undercover" and @Ryan whose handle doesn't show up when you use the @ button? But actually it's a good questio...
March 11, 2021 at 07:01
The value of rationality is greatly overrated in human discourse.
March 11, 2021 at 03:22
Ok. I can live with that. Whether it's a moving arrow or a current driving the speedometer, it's a change occurring over a short interval of time. But...
March 11, 2021 at 03:12
I'll accept this point. It still has nothing to do with what I originally said, which is that you don't need calculus to determine the instantaneous v...
March 11, 2021 at 03:07
The posterior probability that the world exists is 1. Whether that's a satisfactory response to the conundrum you raise, I can't say. Consider. Flip a...
March 11, 2021 at 02:51
Not for the first time I'm sure. Yeah yeah. One of Zeno's complaints. If you look at the arrow at a particular instant it's not moving. How does it kn...
March 11, 2021 at 02:40
What do you think speedometers measure? I take your point about instantaneous motion, it's related to one of Zeno's paradoxes. If the arrow is not mov...
March 11, 2021 at 01:48
A cursory search shows that I can't find it used anywhere. "Today I learned!" Oh -- L and R. Nice. I thought iterated functions were getting a lot of ...
March 11, 2021 at 00:58
Iterated composition. Hadn't seen that notation before. Thanks.
March 11, 2021 at 00:54
Right, that's the answer to "does the square root of -1 exist?" Just as the number 5 can be interpreted as stretching a line segment by five units; an...
March 11, 2021 at 00:04
On the contrary, I have too much time on my hands. I've been over active on this forum lately and I'm feeling the need for a break. I think my reactin...
March 10, 2021 at 23:35
Arctan(1) is the proof of the Leibniz formula. What's the meaning of L?
March 10, 2021 at 22:23
A quarter counterclockwise turn in the plane. That's the simple meaning. I was probably too harsh with my criticism of her video though, it's an excel...
March 10, 2021 at 22:22
Jeez man it's an analog computer. It gives a direct measurement of a physical quantity. You're saying there's no such thing as velocity. Your scientif...
March 10, 2021 at 22:21
I'll take a run at your graphs when I get a chance. You went to some trouble to draw them, you deserve a response. I agree that I don't understand you...
March 10, 2021 at 03:23
Funny you should mention that, since it's so easily disproven. Consider the speedometer in your car. How do you suppose it works? Is there a tiny litt...
March 10, 2021 at 03:14
Uh oh you are in trouble with the woke police now. Suggest you turn yourself in for cancellation.
March 09, 2021 at 22:58
Just my opinion, I didn't want to give you a hard time for posting it, she's always worth watching. That particular video annoyed me but as you know I...
March 09, 2021 at 22:39
I love her videos and articles but felt that she entirely missed the meaning of complex numbers in that video. When physicists talk about math it's al...
March 09, 2021 at 22:26
@Ryan claims that we should poll everyone in the world; I claim we should poll the professional mathematicians; and you claim we should poll the philo...
March 09, 2021 at 21:51
It was wrong of me to poke fun at you without responding to your last two lengthy posts to me. Fact is I wouldn't know where to start so it's better f...
March 09, 2021 at 21:42
I haven't been able to understand Ryan's approach. As in Apocalypse Now, when Kurtz asks, "Are my methods unsound?" And Willard responds: "I don't see...
March 09, 2021 at 06:27
Pi only encodes a finite amount of information. \displaystyle \pi = 4 \sum_{k = 0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^k}{2k + 1}. That's 16 characters if I counted rig...
March 09, 2021 at 06:23
If you're a cisgender straight guy and you prefer not to date a male-to-female transgender, you're a transphobe. That's the word from the SJW playbook...
March 09, 2021 at 04:55
Berkeley's subjective idealism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_idealism
March 07, 2021 at 21:50
I don't understand your idea at all. Suppose the position of a particle at time t is given by f(t) = t^3 - 5 t^2 + 9t - 6. Find the acceleration of th...
March 07, 2021 at 21:31
What does that mean? ps -- I'm not making a geometric statement. The real number line is composed of real numbers. How can you disagree with that?
March 06, 2021 at 23:39
Second clause does not follow from the first. A mathematical line is composed of points. But there is no "next" point after any given point. You are c...
March 06, 2021 at 22:46
This has been mentioned to @"Metaphysician Undercover" repeatedly. For years.
March 06, 2021 at 21:05
Not sure what you mean. Mathematical points on a line are represented as real numbers; mathematical points in n-space are represented as ordered n-tup...
March 06, 2021 at 21:05
This isn't the time or place to discuss Wildberger's crankitude and I'll leave you to your research. FWIW he's one of two PhD-level math cranks I know...
March 06, 2021 at 07:47
You're right, he's a professor of math and he puts his ideas out there under his own name, and the likes of me throws rocks from behind my anonymous h...
March 06, 2021 at 06:40
I'm not the only one, Google around. And FWIW, I'm a crankologist. I enjoy reading math cranks and am familiar with the work of most of the prominent ...
March 06, 2021 at 06:06
Oh boy they're gonna gossip about the rest of us!
March 06, 2021 at 06:04
In your professional research, did you have the feeling that you were investigating aspects of truths outside yourself that you were trying to find ou...
March 06, 2021 at 04:14
I do not believe any scientist has proposed the physical existence of such a thing. For one thing, in physics we know that our theories break down at ...
March 06, 2021 at 04:01
I addressed this in my post. The position and velocity functions are not differentiable at time zero. So there's no well-defined acceleration. Nor as ...
March 06, 2021 at 03:04
Where do they live? And what else lives there? The baby Jesus? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? Pegasus the flying horse? Platonism is untenable. There i...
March 06, 2021 at 03:02
If I point out to @"Metaphysician Undercover" that he can get in his car and drive to the store without being crushed before he drives the first inch;...
March 06, 2021 at 02:58
Ahhhhh, so we shouldn't poll the general public as @Ryan suggests; nor the mathematicians, which I suggest; but rather the metaphysicians! Well that c...
March 06, 2021 at 02:34
No it's not. When you get in your car and start driving to the store, do you experience infinite acceleration? What's that feel like, exactly? Accordi...
March 05, 2021 at 21:43
You ask a good question, and one I can't answer. This is the only thing you've ever said to me that has made me stop and think, and for which I have n...
March 05, 2021 at 21:20
I want to go like my grandpa did, peacefully in his sleep.. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
March 05, 2021 at 21:11
Doh! That would have saved me a lot of typing! LOL.
March 04, 2021 at 23:39
This I would disagree with. One can take the viewpoint that symbolic math is a human endeavor; and that a thing has mathematical existence whenever a ...
March 04, 2021 at 23:33
Most definitely. With extra cheese.
March 04, 2021 at 06:12
The volume of a pizza of radius z and height a is pi z z a.
March 04, 2021 at 05:35
LOL. No. Nor does some corporate press release constitute evidence.
March 04, 2021 at 04:34