jgill

If we subdivide into 9 sub squares, the probability of choosing one of those sub squares is 1/9. If we have 25 sub squares, the probability of one of ...

As a counterexample see my mathematical example. It has a front end but no past end.

Sorry. Language is a lot looser in philosophy (or this forum) than where I worked.

Take a one inch square. Divide each side into n equal parts. Then there are n^2 sub squares. Assume the probability of a point being in the big square...

A mathematical convenience that cannot be observed through instruments. Wrong. And I think you mean an inch cube in 3-space? Or an inch square in my f...

Afraid Greta, Gore and many others have defeated their agenda with the American people by overzealous preaching and ridiculing. "Stupid people, wake u...

Does a causation chain have being? It does if there is a dog at its end.

Assuming the Romney/Manchin ticket does not materialize. If it does, all bets are off. I would vote for them.

I'm speaking of a ruler with inch markings sitting on the table in front of you. You turn away to ask your wife for a glass of wine, then turn back an...

I had the same sensation with my 2020 KIA. But what goes around comes around: I learned to drive many years ago in a 1939 Buick sedan that had a chrom...

I use MathType, set to Wikipedia format, then change < to at either end. It usually works but sometimes not, and I have no idea why. Does an inch exis...

Pardon the intrusion into a less than delightful conversation. First, take the calculus out of the picture by considering ratios of distances, \frac{\...

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Bull's eye, buddy :up: :cool:

There are various ways to form analogues of causal chains in mathematics. One, that I initiated in a publication over thirty years ago concerns compos...

Probability and statistics can weave a tale as the story of quantum physics unfolds.

Huh. Please elucidate.

Yes, I can understand philosophy and history retaining their value over years. Science and math change much more.

Why is that? I'm a little slow today. :chin:

They can't be continually updated, like Wikipedia. They cost $. True, some knowledge doesn't change, but Wikipedia has that too.

As a captain in the reserves in the early 1960s, having done my obligation supporting ADC and SAC at a base near the Canadian border, I was asked to g...

Three, plus post-grad certification for the USAF (and USWB) 1958-59 as a meteorologist.

So if listed, the listing might have to be refined as new knowledge is accrued. Still way to vague for me, but others may feel differently. I admire y...

In the late 1950s we had virtually no computer access when I was a post-grad meteorology student at the U of Chicago. (In 1962 at the U of Alabama the...

Unless you can describe this vague notion as it might appear in a computer program - that is to say a list with #1, #2, . . . - I can't get beyond it ...

The print textbooks will remain a primary source of specialized information. The print book encyclopaedia are dead ducks. Wikipedia is the best thing ...

Back then it was mostly statistical studies. Then after that period atmospheric physicists joined in and made it a real science.

Yes. I stand corrected. The limits due to the speed of light seemed contradictory. It's difficult to imagine "nothing" expanding. It's an age of disco...

Years ago when George Bush was asked who his favorite philosopher was, he replied (after a bit of thought), Jesus Christ. One can draw all sorts of co...

During the Pandemic the government (USA) gave out a lot of money, particularly to parents of small children. I remember thinking, I hope those parents...

One of my old outdoor colleagues once said of my rock climbing, He's not bold . . . but he doesn't need to be. The meek are not necessarily the weak.

Whether a thing is a problem or not is a societal decision. If the vast majority do not consider it a problem, it likely is not. AI:

From BingAI: Does "simply move apart" imply motion in the common sense? Can something move without motion?

I hoped you would chime in. :cool:

But Godel was speaking of a small finite collection of axioms, not an axiomatic system that continues to increase without end. At what point does one ...

:up: :up: The Meek shall inherit the Earth

Not undecidability. Rather potential facts. I know my Corgi could not understand analytic geometry, and that is a general assumption for Corgis. But t...

A far cry from listing all facts (axioms). So, the system of axioms is constantly increasing. Proof it is finite at a particular time? "True" by what ...

Merry Xmas, Lads. My understanding is that two objects move further apart with time; space itself (whatever it is) doesn't change. Some of this stuff ...

OK, this means an uncountable collection of "axioms". How could you organize these axioms in such a fashion they represent a data set in CS? What is a...

:lol: But, in Minkowski spacetime it seems progression in the time variable requires no movement in space. I think of time as being in some ways linke...

There was another quantum physics guy on the forum a couple of years ago, @Kenosha Kid. He said he left physics to make his fortune playing the guitar...

, , As I sit on the sidelines I find this conversation fascinating, and I am learning some math as well. I've never worked with formal integral transf...

I agree. But his following continues to grow in a world turned upside down.

I use MathType, what you see is what you get. Then copy and paste to this forum, changing "<" to "elementary functions The Bogoliubov transformation i...

You and I have our differences, but here I am more or less in agreement. Mathematics is a practice, a device used by the sciences, etc., but mathemati...

Wife & I are still registered Democrats. You might be surprised at where we would agree on politics. For example, I have always felt there should be f...

It will be overturned by the Supreme Court. I know you think it is justified for this person, but even some Democratic strategists are calling it a st...

My wife and I usually vote moderate conservative these days, and we both enjoy the evening news with Bret. A tilt to the right, but maybe less than CN...

A wonderful Christmas present. :smile: