jgill

From a purely mathematical perspective, when one solves a kind of partial DE there may be many linear combinations of solutions. Question: which one a...

There are few restrictions here. But when views are presented others are free to poke at them.

Yes, I agree. The mistake is to assume the universe was created to raise human emotions.

Good point. , to what extent is the "collapse" simply the experiment being resolved by identifying one of the many solutions of the Schrödinger equati...

It's interesting that the survey showed zero percent in favor of a transactional approach. I seem to recall that one of the few actual physicists on T...

Euler diagrams If you have a program on your computer you need to pay and be a subscriber to upload an image to a post.

How true. Practically everything you see on TV news has a slant. I used to enjoy Shepard Smith on Fox News, but he departed some time ago and I lost t...

I see this attempted on TPF when someone starts talking about quantum theory or relativity. Now, there are a few individuals on the site who know what...

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I assume you mean by "small percentage of the world population" the highly civilized nations (HCN), to which millions flee, desperate to be admitted, ...

I like this. In order to improve philosophy, don't do philosophy. Non-thinking is relevant to mathematics as well. Long retired, I still conjure up ma...

You have a lot of patience. The "vagueness" principle apokrisis advances might work better. It would parallel the actual history of math. The sequence...

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It seems like you are just playing with words. Suppose your idea is accepted. What difference does it make besides a brief discussion in a faculty lou...

In math, time = t. So simple.

It's poetic as well.

Hey, I'm a fan. You have my respect. :cool: I used to pick up bits of modern math knowledge from @fishfry before he departed.

If you want to start with curves (or continuous objects) in order to derive points you need a systematic way of talking about them. If you plan to ass...

Maybe it is. A possible definition of space. :snicker:

The reason old-fashioned terminology is not so bad. One-to-one onto, etc. Bourbaki may be to blame? Just nit-picking, ignore me.

When math starts with points that are then assembled into curves, there is a way of describing those points on the real line, identifying a point with...

How would you catalogue all continuous curves? That would be a starting "point". In order to have derivatives and integrals you would need some kind o...

Nonsense. Start with \frac{{{d}^{2}}s}{d{{t}^{2}}}=-32 and use the height of 100 and initial velocity of 0 and solve & compute. You are confused becau...

Good luck with that. :roll:

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There's nothing wrong with math, so it must be the universe. I wouldn't put anything past that sucker!!! It'll take more than a glimpse for me. I know...

I now get a warning sign that "this site may contain content that may affect your online security". I haven't seen this before. Any comments?

No, just sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

If it's any consolation I was a math major at two big state universities in the 1950s and I can't recall of ever studying any aspect of foundations be...

The player has free will to make the shot. The little routine is part of the shot. Not an argument against free will. Now, an argument can be made is ...

Haven't a clue. It's Greek to me.

Yesterday I listened to a discussion on NPR of the role of rituals in life. They talked about watching a basketball player about to take a shot. If th...

Could be. I just look at the math of the thing, which doesn't seem like Magick.

There's your philosophical wiggle room! Have at it. :cool:

An experiment is performed. A machine registers the outcome. This is when the "collapse" occurs. An hour later a scientist reads the measurement - his...

The role of measurement, perhaps.

"Superposition" is essentially linearity with regard to solutions of Schrodinger's equation. When modelling a physical phenomenon mathematically, freq...

Food for thought. Wiki:

In a flight of philosophical fantasy, the sequence of contours that converge uniformly to the line segment but increase in length toward infinity migh...

In to the sauce again, AS? My comment was made on a different thread. :roll:

Exactly my first experience with Castaneda's Art of Dreaming many years ago. Stephan King describes an alternate reality in one of his books in which ...

?? Bergson's time intervals? What? Rotation & translation = the two spools? :chin:

I had never heard that expression in a mathematics discussion before joining TPF.

Should be on a physics forum, but what the hell . . .

Yes, they certainly like to talk about what Kant meant or how Aristotle would know, but math is more precise, with less room to wiggle. :nerd:

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I don't know about the six degrees or aliens. I met him once and talked with him briefly at a meeting in Hungary years ago, but I am not in that selec...

It would be nice to see some references here. I think that is a very good question, one that might be answerable.

Yes, we're a wicked bunch intent on the corruption of the intellects of youth in order to bring them to the alter of our Satan, Paul Erdos RIP. All bo...

NDEs don't occur after brain death. So they tell us nothing about an afterlife.