jgill

I was in Buxton for a mountaineering conference in 1985, and met a number of young Brit lads who had pooled their doles to rent houses and go climbing...

I suspect the OP may have been written by AI. But look at the conversation it triggered!

I recall reading the ash in Missouri was several feet deep. Volcanic eruptions are nothing to sneeze at.

For a mathematician four dimensions simply means one more variable to deal with. A three dimensional cylinder F\left( x,z,y \right)=0,\text{ }{{x}^{2}...

Living in Colorado I think about this occasionally: Yellowstone Caldera

Death mostly harms those who are left to pick up the pieces. The dead are no more, so "harm" is meaningless for them.

I seem to have misinterpreted your OP. Sorry.

I'm not sure I would use the word "irony" here. You seem to ask why others don't find meaning in an activity or an idea that is meaningful for you. An...

I'm uncertain about space but spacetime is curved in appropriate metrics. The simple Euclidean metric is not one of them. Apokrisis could explain this...

:up: Try existing on your own outside the boundaries of atmospheric Earth.

The real question here is whether arguments from medieval scholasticism are relevant today.

Same here. Reading it lightly didn't work for me.

Thanks. :ok:

Possibly, but that does not describe me, nor colleagues I have known over the years. Perhaps autistic mathematicians.

I miss the subtleties of arguments like this. So, if I am talking with someone we may each use the same word or phrase in our discussion, unaware that...

From her bio page:

Good to have another physicist onboard. Helps to keep the philosophers of science here honest. :cool:

In a sense it might be. There seems to be a correlation between time and motion. It could be that motion relative to two or more objects generates tim...

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More likely, they have more to their lives than mooning over imponderables.

See you in the Lounge.

That says it in a nutshell. From Wiki: After lunch everyone laughed at Fermi's outburst, Where is everybody!? Famous scientists can be sophomoric just...

As usual, an excellent analysis. The use of numbers and infinities seems to create confusion. Even the use of the word "derive" is a bit problematic. ...

:up: Singularities are categorized in complex analysis. Some are quite tame and easily"fixed", others can be bizarre to the point of reaching beyond o...

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Good to see you back. I appreciate your liveliness. Are there meds for graphorrhea? :cool:

Accompanied by its handmaiden mathematics. :roll:

Welcome aboard. There are several physicists on TPF but they like to cloak themselves in dark matter. :cool:

You have supplied a pretty good answer to your own question. Welcome to the forum. :cool:

Persist living. When my mother reached her 80s her eyesight came back after a lifetime of needing glasses. I was sure this was not the case, but the s...

It's interesting to read of the varying opinions of Talking to Oneself. It can be a sign of oncoming dementia - or not. I've always done math by eithe...

This is painful to watch.

Not when it's Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. :cool:

I'd love to see a proposed course outline for this. Especially if one went per se. Perhaps there's a Schaum's Outline on Thelema. What academic discip...

They show up from time to time. Kenosha Kid was one. I suspect Pie is one. I'm guessing apokrisis is a biophysicist. There are probably a few more lur...

"Possibly" in current math would be a conjecture. It would go nowhere logically by itself. "Believe" really would be nonsense in mathematics.

The words "omniscience" and "God" are not in my vocabulary normally. Initially I would have thought that modal logic had no place in the mathematics I...

To me, philosophy is about speaking, writing, working with the tool of language. Mysticism has always seemed more actual experiencing. Doing rather th...

Might I be God? No, you may not.

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Medieval scholasticism seems to creep back into the present, where it rubs shoulders with quantum mysticism.

Same thing happened to me some time back. I started a thread of whether mathematics could be considered racist, based upon changes advocated in Califo...

When I see a philosophical thread with the words Omniscient or God, I wonder what a philosopher thinks when he sees a mathematical one with the word, ...

A priori underlying the arguments in the thread then.

Yes Prima facie, this seems ridiculous. I know Crowley's religion , Thelema, but I do not believe it. I must be missing the subtlety. I haven't read t...

Many instances they can't be given away. :cool:

Oh oh. Put on your mask when flying through those clouds of sulfuric acid. I agree. Best to do what we can, and prepare for the inevitable. If I were ...

As an Independent searching for the illusive middle ground my choice would be Harold Ford, Jr

Please settle on an icon. I'm dizzy watching them come and go. :gasp:

I admire your certitude. It must be nonplussing to watch the world of science evolve using a flawed intellectual mechanism. :confused: