jgill

Nothing to do with my passing comments on math singularities.

Points of singularity, whether in the physical world or mathematics, allow bizarre behavior in their neighborhoods. I dabble in the complex plane wher...

Like others, I attributed this wonderful line to Feynman. Mistakenly it would appear. Thanks. Oh oh. Awakening a slumbering giant! :gasp:

Busy day for the moderators. I'm not chasing after anything with philosophy; I'm simply watching it flow past like a murky stream. The days of the cla...

According to Max Tegmark all of reality is a mathematical construct. He's gone far beyond your limited view.

So, this thread is not about discussing the bill, rather doing all one can to assure its passage. OK

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Certainly not. I would be happy to vote for Joe Manchin for president should he be the democratic nominee in 2024. I seem to recall that Tocqueville m...

Bret, your website doesn't come up.

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Could be. But the Butterfly Effect (In math: sensitive dependence on initial conditions) won't necessarily exist. Takes many tugs. :cool:

This concept from dynamical systems is sometimes assumed to exist in many if not all circumstances. In fact, the opposite can occur: disturbances in o...

Of the categories listed the anti-vaxxers should be dealt with by a federal mandate requiring most receive the shots. Climate change mitigation can be...

Atmospheric science includes the climate and is more respectable.

OK. Sorry. Carry on.

What's the problem? Thinking? Is that a burden? The OP poses a question, not a problem. One answers a question and solves a problem. Is this really th...

(Wikipedia) This is what it was when I took the course in the late 1950s. By the 1970s this attitude had begun to change. Now, atmospheric science enc...

The rock that Samuel Johnson kicked?

It's entertaining to see efforts to shoe-horn Tegmark into the mix of classical philosophers and philosophical theory. But I think the gentleman is in...

I'm probably the only (ex) meteorologist on TPF and I wish I could provide an answer, not to the ongoing arguments about deleterious effects of humani...

Well, maybe too many posts. He certainly liked to raise questions, some of which had merit. Too bad.

Here's something I've looked into on numerous occasions that bears some resemblance to this topic. Instead of dealing with 0 to 1 or 1 to 0, this is a...

I've never heard of a particle physicist who eschews mathematics. :roll:

Why? This leads nowhere, nor does it prove anything. It does, however, resemble something I looked into a few months ago concerning convergence of inf...

Here's a good intro to the subject: Nonstandard Analysis I shudder when I say this, but there might be something to this idea. Just a feeling, since t...

No. Aristotle was not a dentist.

Infinitesimals are the subject of modern non-standard analysis, and were one of Leibniz's playthings. Occasionally a calculus course is taught from th...

I consider String Theory to be metaphysics. And Leibniz's infinitesimals. But I'm probably in error. The Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford delves i...

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A good starting point: Mathematics of String Theory Good luck. It's beyond my pale.

About as much as anything on The Philosophy Forum. I would think this would put you in an impossible position if you are serious about physics. :roll:

Infinite Compositions of Möbius Transformations These are the same things as LFTs. LFTs have geometric, matrix, and analytic theories. Olde Goodies.

Yes, they've been around the block a few times. Sounds like you know what you are talking about! :lol:

Prove you are not! :cool:

If you are not familiar with a certain area of mathematics it would make little sense. Has to do with the convergence of infinite compositions of para...

That has an ominous sound. Where have I heard that before? :gasp:

I suppose physical space might. I'm not saying it does. But infinitesimals are rarely used as such in math that is not non-standard analysis. However,...

Highly debatable. Unless you understand the math you don't understand the theory. Do you? If so, you are ahead of me. I've puzzled over the legitimacy...

Nope. Limits of measurements are physical problems.

At a very grass roots level, his assertion that all mathematical structures exist in some physical way is a real stretch. I have no luck envisioning a...

Not every problem. The poetry of mathematics is in its elegance, a word easily spoken but not as easily defined.

I know the discussion doesn't need an actual mathematician chirping in, but I will nevertheless. Inventiveness in the subject has gone far beyond this...

This should be the law, regardless of gun carrying. But those wimps on the Supreme Court would probably shoot it down. :sad:

I think QM has pushed physics to circumnavigate speculating about a conscious observer and stick to the math, which seems highly predictive. Unfortuna...

I think physics has been pushed into that position even more so by quantum discoveries. As Feynman suggested . . . . .

There are approximately 400,000,000 guns in the USA, more than one per human. And most of those guns were well-made and very durable - designed to las...

Good heavens, I should have kept my distance from this topic! :gasp:

I didn't know Possible Worlds was a philosophical concept going back to Leibniz ("Best of all possible worlds"). I see how alternative histories would...

I suspect you mean in all possible worlds we can imagine. Otherwise, how could one possibly know this? How can one describe a "possible world"? Click ...

Well, you just roll around on the floor, missy! :razz: I was at university with this fellow:Mihaly C., and he went on to elaborate on the experience, ...