jgill

Holding an irrational belief is not a crime itself, but could encourage a crime.

Are "dimensions" perpendicular to one another? Is two dimension perpendicular to one dimension? What is a "large" dimension in this context? https://m...

You need to brush up on what "perpendicular" might mean in higher dimensions, minus the hand waving. How can we understand the notion in our human con...

Back in Euclidean 3-space I see. I want "perpendicular" to refer to an object in 5D relative to an object in 3D.

There you go again.

I'm getting dizzy going around in circles. What's the distance? An infinitesimal. Do you really think of particles as circles on cylinders? A referenc...

Here is An Example on this very forum.

My spine tingles at this revelation! I can carry out my experiments on Mars. Still stumped at "perpendicular" eh? :cool:

And the mystery deepens. No cigar.

Whoops, forgot to read the fine print. Makes more sense. :yikes:

Interesting tidbit from Harvard: To apply for admittance to the PhD program in philosophy one must submit (roughly) fifteen pages of writing. No parti...

Physics, e.g., is about "hows" rather than "whys". Philosophy can dabble in the later, but not the former.

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The allegory of all I've done in a nutshell.

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As mentioned, no "earliest" domino. But your argument is similar to a math idea I worked on in which earlier and earlier "dominos" do indeed produce a...

Not really. The efforts are to get more women/people of color into mathematics. Already too many white guys.

What is "true"? Wiki

Not quite, but who cares? You want "complex time"? Here's an example: T=t+ib(t). A ballistic missile defines a trajectory that has the following real ...

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No lack of imagination here. Limit of what system? However, these are metaphysical hypotheses that have little bearing on physical reality.

How you do dat? :nerd: I'm still chewing on this. . . . . :roll:

By 2010 about 30% of mathematics PhDs were women. I would guess that now there may be 35% or so. I'll bet there are far fewer in philosophy. A look at...

Silly boy. I spent thirty enjoyable years in that environment. But admittedly I was not locking intellectual horns with Nobel laureates.

It's speculated the the Jews of the time period of Nebuchadnezzar sarcastically referred to him as "Lucifer", one who thought so highly of himself tha...

:ok: One important aspect of academia is that it is a social environment in which researchers converse with one another, sharpening arguments and disc...

So, if one begins an argument by assuming what is to be proved, this implies that argument is "deductive"? A new and pathetic low on TPF. :roll: My Go...

A great math guy but something of a nut case toward the end. This thread is like a time travel back to the scholasticism of the 13th century using qua...

Ref: the Philosophy is Pointless . . . thread.

Well, that certainly clarifies the issue. :roll:

You intentionally avoid the aesthetics of physical movement. To sit and stare at paintings or sculptures or listen to music while in a recliner, in th...

A problem with non-paradoxical travel to the past to simply witness an event is with the definition of "witness". Does that imply the reception of pho...

Yes indeed! Ken Edwards

In the broad river of time there might be tiny eddies where momentarily particles of reality circle before being caught up in the forward momentum. (I...

Time reversal in physics formulae is often touted as an indication that processes might run backwards in time, but I suspect the interchangeability of...

Former, IMHO. :smile:

Exemplars of the obvious.

I can physics babble as well as anyone here if I put my mind to it. :wink:

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Scientific speculation, philosophical even, is always welcome. My own suspicion is that time moves obliquely according to a functional operator and we...

Agency in Physics Carlo Rovelli

Between the extremes - Dems: print more money and give it away, do away with borders - Reps: pray that women will not have the right to abortion - the...

Yes, there are agencies behind physical phenomena, but not the sort of agencies normally discussed in philosophy in which something resembling conscio...

:up: Bizarre times indeed.

Post a few excerpts please. Looks interesting. :chin:

There was a famous novelist who wrote this way in the 1960s I think. Can't recall is name.

At times I wish I were still teaching so I could take jewels like this into the classroom. :cool:

Thanks for your thoughts. Always interesting and provocative. One of the major tasks in the early grades is to develop critical and precise thinking s...

Do not write sentences so long they become paragraphs. Be succinct and smile at the reader.