jgill

Dark splotches on a computer screen that appear to move. Amazing evidence. :roll:

Maybe there is a crises in meaningfulness among the young - and the middle aged. Today's Ann Landers column includes a person who at the age of forty,...

My best friend, who passed away seven years ago, was a physics major up until the required introductory senior level course in quantum theory. He swit...

But this may be in error. Certainly what they are doing is a mixture of measurements and mathematics. Frankly, I don't know what's going on here. But ...

The image isn't the entangled photons. It's an image of a mathematical entity: the wave function.

Conscription was the law in the US in the 1950s, and I recall ROTC the first two years being required for all male students at the university at which...

Apart from the intelligent comments made here there is the fact that on television the creatures appear to be made of clay. Anything to distract from ...

Seems to be the case as far as I can determine. Difficult reading.

A science of the undetectable is a curious thing indeed. Metaphysical.

Anyone here who served in an armed forces? Just curious. :chin:

As a child who watched B17s fly over the family farm house as WWII wound down, and then as a young man in the 1950s my first thought, now, when readin...

The classical notion, yes, but perhaps not quite that simple. From Wikipedia:

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This seems a step beyond metaphysics in vagueness and incomprehensibility. Perhaps a link would help. :chin:

Sorry, but I am just too old and infirm. But thanks for asking. :cool:

Perhaps that's a good thing?

More like Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn. She's got my vote. Well, if it were possible for an Aussie- born to run for office. :smile:

When I think of non-commutative algebras I think of matrix algebras and non-commutativity of multiplication. When you speak of two pairs that takes me...

Thank you for providing additional information about your ideas. Spacetime at quantum levels seems to involve non-commutative algebras and appears to ...

Guess what's happening here? :cool:

These are things he said he would do, and at least he made efforts to do so, whether anyone thinks they were appropriate or preludes to disaster. Earl...

I have trouble with this also. But in a social, let's say feminist setting, intra-acting amongst participants can and does produce "objects" - movemen...

Hint: He made an attempt to stop illegal immigration along the southern border. He made an attempt to influence NATO members to pay more their share. ...

No problem. But, could you summerize what you are saying here about time?

I can recall three here who have PhD's in philosophy. Not quite what you are asking.

How's that? Just curious. :chin:

Not that I'm familiar with. I often bring up trying to teach my late Corgi mathematical concepts, to no avail. He passed away with not an inkling of c...

I've never come across the word "supervenes" in mathematics, so I assume it is more a philosophical term. However, what comes to mind is the reliance ...

I look to AI rather than SF to open conceptual doors. I was more or less active as a mathematician for many years, and I witnessed a huge increase in ...

Yes, SF can be speculative philosophy. There is the question of human understanding. I used to try to teach my Corgi, Jake, elementary calculus. You c...

Even in more abstract mathematics this is true. For example, when one describes a way to measure "distances" between finite contours in the complex pl...

It's always seemed to me that visitation by an alien would have had to be one of absolute desperation. Whereas - due to time dilation - their voyage m...

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It's too messy. And chemistry and physics underlie it. A biophysicist could go into more detail. There is one lurking here.

I've been pondering this. It is possible, I suppose, that the mathematics in quantum theory has been reified to some extent. The Mathematical Universe...

Yawn. Silly silly. Trump will be the candidate. If behind bars his popularity will soar. Is that how it was phrased? Like asking, "do you believe in G...

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It will be interesting to see if anything comes of her ideas. Certainly, quantum theory these days seems more a reifying of mathematics. I see physics...

Oh, but it is. It aligns perfectly from my last game. Well, a few more scratches. As for Barad, They are a person who has taken a certain perspective ...

Shallow analysis: When a group convenes and creates an "object", let's say a social movement, in the process of intra-acting, there is entanglement pl...

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I wrote a simple program for my computer, following the rules of arithmetic originating with the principle of succession from set theory. When I ask t...

What more needs be said?

Not directly, of course. But the money has to come from somewhere. Income taxes, etc. or if you happen to have a group medical policy, its spread out ...

Sokol prize winner.

Quotidian or whatever didn't do the job? Wayfarer is far more wistfully wise.

Far too much wealth in far too few hands.

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Here inductive logic works wonders.

You and Kripke may be excused. Return to dinner when you have stopped playing your little games.