jgill

I see why very few legitimate physicists are on TPF, even though they might be philosophical physicists. Of course, they have their own forums.

To a person who has limited knowledge of formal philosophy, this describes what seems to be going on in this thread.

Thanks for the link. Puzzling, isn't it? Beyond my pay grade even though I'm a math person. As for the opposite extreme, the existence of a volume of ...

@apokrisis could assist you in this. He enjoys breaking symmetries. :smile:

The pertinent question then is, did Tenzing Norgay share that ineffable experience? Could they talk about it, making it effable?

I'm not aware of any, but there may be. I've never associated with a fellow mathematician who had more than a passing curiosity about the CH. Set theo...

Why is the year 1785 considered special? :chin: :cool:

When might time come to a halt? A photon moving at light speed experiences no passage of time due to complete dilation, and a hypothetical environment...

Anyone immersed in a demanding activity, like an athlete performing, loses much if not most awareness of themselves.

Well, he's a limo driver and not a scientist ! Thought you'd like to see a host of "ideas" :cool:

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Is that a question? I hope he wasn't. But he could be now, being about my age!

Is empathy the same as effability ? No. Even then the spectator can only partially "identify" with the performer. When Alex Honnold climbed El Cap in ...

Not me, dad. I flew off the campus into the USAF back in 1958, when your daddy was in diapers. :smile:

Yes, a form of demonstrated honesty about the nature of politics. I wonder how many ex-professional athletes have served in congress in the last few y...

From Wikipedia, an interesting note:

Amazing how you can share the experience of a complicated gymnastic routine just by watching. Eons ago if I had only known that I needn't actually do ...

Circular time on Quora

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Are books still considered accurate sources of knowledge? Wikipedia seems to think so. And I find this amusing having been involved with numerous new ...

Raging out and attacking someone or something? (just joking) Actions constitute much of what is ineffable. Ice skaters, gymnasts, climbers, . . . An a...

Nice try. :cool: Set theory for the general public is arranging dinner plates and counting silverware.

Unfortunate for the Repubs that Trump appointed those conservatives on the Supreme Court. The progression is clear now, with Roe vs Wade overturned an...

True enough. Many ideas pop out of the subconscious before the "uber-logical" aspect comes into play. I've long considered mathematics a metaphysical ...

Do I detect a note of sarcasm? :roll:

I thought it was Feynman, also, but it wasn't: David Mermin It's tough being a leading edge physicist these days. At least mathematicians get to creat...

To return to an existence as wild animals? To live on a commune in tranquility with nature? Even that is institutional. An escape from rationality int...

Yes, but doing so has the drawback of inferring false information while attempting to make an arcane subject accessible to the average person. Here ar...

It's not easy to talk about something that can't be expressed in words. Good luck.

Universal basic income provided by the state? Is this part of the "truth"?

Thanks for your answers. I've been reading about LP, finding I knew very little about it.

What paradigms have been broken, altered, or introduced by philosophers in that time period? No fair citing physicists or other scientists who have sp...

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I think physicists are struggling with that issue right now. Where best to look to look for progress, philosophers arguing the definition of words? Do...

As practiced by physicists, themselves. Without a lot of help from metaphysicians outside the science. Or at least that's how I see it.

Nice discussion of the physics related to time. Thanks. :cool:

At least the people at Stanford are attempting to put a little meat on this bone: Computational metaphysics

Good question. Discussing politics - beyond the tribal aspect - can have significant social consequences in that it may cause others to rethink their ...

The Stanford Metaphysics Lab attempts to put an element of solidity into the study of metaphysics, a topic of endless and entirely non-productive disc...

This article describes the famous debate about time between Bergson and Einstein in 1922. (Canales) (Bergson) For Bergson the concept of "duration" - ...

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The derivative dy/dx does not in itself involve a time variable. However, that's just putting off the argument whether time must pass for change to oc...

Perceiving the changing from yellow to red simultaneously. Not quite change, I'll admit.

As a math person what immediately comes to mind when the word metaphysics arises is Leibniz's notion of the infinitesimal. These tiny things cannot po...

Maybe. Suppose you are looking at the computer screen before you. It is devoid of imagery, but is a continuously changing color from yellow on the lef...

I hope that's not the last word on the subject. :roll:

Time and energy are related by observing that, as in space, moving at a fixed rate requires no energy. Whereas if one accelerates by applying a force ...

Which would have made more sense and been far more entertaining.

When you sober up you'll get it.

Sunday School babble. Have one more for good measure, then toddle off to beddy bye. :roll: