jgill

It's only a matter of time.

One way of perceiving the sum of all paths in Feynman's path integral for paths that consistently move towards a target is to have the particle pass t...

That's an interesting assessment of American liberalism. But you haven't stated what comes next under that rubric: condemn those who do not follow thi...

"Most notably Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel, but also the following: Gabriel's horn Galileo's paradox Ross–Littlewood paradox Thomson's lamp Ze...

It's not science. But it's speculating or philosophizing about scientific results.

I did? I'm old. Maybe I was closing up shop for the night. :chin:

I just proved an interesting result demonstrating a sequence of sine contours on the interval that not only converge uniformly to the line from 0 to 1...

I knew Lester Germer, a multi-dimensional person. He was a fighter pilot in WWI. My oldest and best climbing friend ,Dave Rearick, was a math prof at ...

And thankful of that I am. :roll:

This thread has opened the door to a BIG NUMBER theory, a BIG BANG theory companion! Oops, looks like there already exists such a Theory :sad:

:up: Pretty much says it all, unless one wants to speculate about surviving death in some form. That would be a thread to which Houdini might contribu...

Amongst the philosophical minded. :smile:

:clap: Eloquently said!

Well, that's interesting. I learned something. Thanks. Classical analysis of course means more or less what I said, going back to Weierstrass and Cauc...

The basic set theoretic structure of the reals underlies almost everything I have done, but I haven't used infinity as a "point" (nor the axiom of cho...

I don't think it takes an MFA to be a good writer. But an apprenticeship could help. I'm not even sure a BA is required. Lots and lots or reading vari...

I'm not sure how your post relates to my quote. To clarify, I've taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in (mathematical) analysis and publish...

Interesting to learn of the various ways the word Singularity is used. In the simplest math it's just where a denominator equals zero. But in the comp...

Sin(x)/x as x approaches zero is an entity itself, a ratio that converges to one. Look at the simpler ratio (x^2)/x as x approaches zero. It's an inde...

So an argument that begins, "Assuming part of us suffers after death . . ." is evidence we survive our deaths? :roll:

So why begin this thread?

It is speculated (theorized?) that time began with this event called the BIg Bang, as did space, in the context of spacetime. So there is no "before" ...

See? You started an entertaining discussion that drew in some pretty good thinkers. Probably better than paying a PhD student. :cool:

Normally x\to \infty arises in the following context: \underset{x\to \infty }{\mathop{\lim }}\,f(x)=L\text{ }\Leftrightarrow \text{ }For\text{ }\varep...

Once again, calculus is about LIMITS, as my mathematical genealogical ancestor, Karl Weierstrass would have explained. That damn lemniscate and the pr...

I type an "a" instead of an "s". Am I displaying disorder or foolery? Do I compare with Putin's error in Ukraine? Are "error" and "mistake" synonymous...

I was speaking of currently accepted set theory, not challenges of it.

Here is a start. But it's pretty simplistic. A good topic for TPF I would think.

x\to \infty means x gets larger without bounds. Limits

That makes the real numbers a challenging and intriguing subject.

The tone of the OP does not suggest Cantor's theological nonsense.

And refreshing it is for these times. Not a mention of God or Jesus or climate change. I was a professional mathematician for many years, focusing on ...

Starting off with a proposed "set of everything" I would say yes. Beyond that the discussion is mostly the typical banter about the definitions of wor...

I never heard this one, but from CS there is the equivalent and more or less standard that's been around forever: Garbage

I notice the set theorists on TPF are keeping their distance from this thread. :cool:

And there lies a tale to be told :wink:

I question whether that is actually a set in ZFC. A neighbor of Russell's paradox perhaps.

:scream: :rofl:

To be harmed or hurt requires feeling physical or emotional pain. You seem to be saying that a person is alive to these sensations after they die. "ha...

The thing about lucid dreams is the spectrum they constitute. On one end there's a normal dream you seem to be able to control slightly. At the other ...

I yield. Carry on. :roll:

I can't help but recommend the Spanish series, Money Heist, on Netflix.

Nonsense. I was speaking of postmortem harm to the individual who dies. After death that person is no more and will endure no more harm.

Sounds right. Maybe the Dems will put Cheeta up for election in '24. That might turn the tide.

Once again, four dimensional Euclidean space is not the same as four dimensional spacetime.

Magick in Computers :roll:

I've spoken of this before, so I won't bore the reading audience. Castaneda's the Art of Dreaming works. Almost fifty years ago and the initial experi...

For some, yes, for others it was the beginning of a lifestyle. Dirtbagging, on the other hand, was and is popular in the US and once again its advocat...

I thought he might have been AI. Reads like some of the stuff from Sokal.

Weak sauce. His argument begins with a questionable assumption that a mere mortal could not be a great moral teacher. Whether Christ existed or not hi...