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If there is one let's call it "God" for convenience. Then we can consider the nature of God or not. So far, all my mathematical causation chains have ...

Perhaps it will lead to an unusual strategy for the courtroom for you. If so, let me know and I will fly to NZ for the occasion.

Not a disturbance of quantum fields? Sometimes by lab machinery? Are quantum fields uncaused causes? If so, how can you be sure? Above my pay grade.

OK. Demonstrate an uncaused cause, where you are certain some process begins. No fair using random numbers or statistics to evade causation. This thre...

Are you aware of what you are saying here? Where do you live?

I think its "uncaused cause", the very first movement in the chain. Where it starts. And, yes, I was issuing a challenge to produce one such "thing". ...

My daughter lives in NYC, population density approximately 30,000/sqMile. She has no car. I live in a S. Colorado community with an overall popdensity...

Pulsating electromagnetic energy? I consider this a real "thing", but the aether probably is not. How about radar.

The Empty set is where things begin in mathematical set theory. Here, I'm saying unless a specific first cause can be determined the set of first caus...

Yes, he would have added an environmentalist's perspective to the subject. :cool: (He and I were at U of C the same time).

But none of us looks as good as you, all spiffed up in shirt, tie and vest. Most of us look like Lionino's avatar with a little hair. :gasp:

{{\left( a+b \right)}^{2}}\equiv {{a}^{2}}+2ab+{{b}^{2}} for all a and b. but 2x+1=3 only if x=1

Do you mean probability approaching 1? In the physical world perhaps. In the idealized mathematical world it is fairly easy to do.

I agree. I gave up and turned to something else. Too much like a video game. Barbie, on the other hand . . . . :smile:

:up: Ocean waves might be considered as waveforms, although they are erratic. Radar, etc. are waveforms in reality.

Excellent posts. Very thought-provoking. :up: :cool: These are avenues of thought that lie close to First Causes. However, my mathematical approach pr...

I might be wrong. I had just watched a clip from a Biden press conference.

Let's start with Being compared with, say, Complex number. :roll:

Unless a clear, non-debatable physical example arises the things uncaused may be the empty set. Thank you for illuminating this issue for the fifth gr...

Is this the way forward in philosophy - to create new expressions or words, then debate them? Actually, it resembles math in this respect, other than ...

I watched him for awhile in the recent town hall meeting in Iowa and he looked quick witted and vibrant. We'll see where all this goes. Curious times....

I think Trump is eager for a debate with Biden. He's much more quick-witted and energetic than Slow Joe. Biden's cabal may keep him from debating.

If you live in an area where children are removed from school buildings on occasion to make room for illegal immigrants, or hospitals shut down, then ...

Do multiple causation chains spring into being with first causes or first cause?

Two that I am intimately acquainted with went in two steps to the definition of mathematics, as you predict.

An infinite chain of reasons or causation chain may be finite in the sense that as one moves further and further back in time the passage or rate at w...

Denver Hospital System may fail due to Treating Migrants Thank you, Mr Surge the Borders President. :roll:

I thought the problem was he was asleep at the wheel. :roll:

I have been looking into what Sir Roger Penrose has to say about transfinite theory in physics, and it appears he thinks it can arise in computational...

:smile: It may not be easy to keep this thread from drifting away from the transfinite.

For all the discussions about the Grandfather Paradox, timelines, alternate histories, etc. I don't think humans will ever travel physically to the pa...

I recall from my functional analysis courses the Hahn-Banach theorem, which deals with extending linear functionals on manifolds. This was the only ti...

And that's all it is, a mental feat, like flapping my wings and soaring to the moon. We are blessed with the ability to be creative, and much of which...

I think much of what we don't understand is a result of definitions in set theory. And when transfinite theory is incorporated into physics, practitio...

Of course it is. Virtual particles is fair game for both sides of the intellectual coin. And as I mentioned there seems to be a spectrum between virtu...

I was a gymnast in the 1950s and a rock climber up until the early 2000s. Never smoked, never used drugs, but used to have a highball or two every oth...

That's a problem with virtually all causality chains. There may not be just one cause at each step, there may be many, and so chains interact with one...

The Central Limit Theorem may be what you are talking about, although this ancient thread goes all over the place.The CLT concerns arithmetic averages...

Perhaps someone would offer a proof. :chin:

Well, this is certainly a deep issue. Good luck. Nice chatting with you. :smile:

Not all mathematicians are set theorists. "Without bound" works pretty well for some of us, without transfinite or philosophical overtones.

I apologize if I have offended you. I seem to have misinterpreted the situation. Radio Free Europe Al Jazeera BBC

Oh, if only that nitwit president had not invited the world to surge the border. Guess Robert Gates is right. Sad state of affairs. Maybe Michelle wil...

The Schrödinger equation's solution is called a wave function. If one simplifies the equation considerably it has the form dQ/dt=kQ, which has solutio...

Escape before you're drafted! I hear Putin is even militarizing migrants.

As a mathematician I don't recommend this topic for this forum. There are not many of us here with knowledge of transfinite theory. But maybe some int...

What I have produced in mathematical terms is an actual chain - I can make it more specific with definitions of functions, etc. if you desire. Your ac...

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Seems that way to me. I use time as t, a non-negative real number, in my math. I think most have given up on what time is. But arguments about whether...

I wish. Time dilation shows that the passage of time is relative to motion, so in a way time is linked to change.