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Who cares about top speed? How about bringing light speed down to my neighborhood limit! :cool: Light travels at 38 MPH

Of course it can. As a recursion statement in BASIC. I use stuff like this all the time. Nothing is nothing of a paradox. :roll:

Close, but no cigar. :wink: "The golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral that grows outward by a factor of the golden ratio for every 90 degrees of rota...

Why bother? Just use cuneiform on clay tablets. It works. No comment.

Not having been a number theorist I had not thought about the Fibonacci sequence in a long while, recalling its definition, rabbit populations, and th...

I sometimes wonder if philosophy can really contribute anything about the quantum world. All the talk of waves and excitations and duality hasn't brou...

I don't mean anything. This is a Wikipedia article. Argue with them. :cool: Since I piddle around with dynamics in the complex plane - force (vector) ...

You guys . . . :roll: Wikipedia: Mathematical vs. theoretical physics The term "mathematical physics" is sometimes used to denote research aimed at st...

You are lumping two things together here that may not be the same: There are theoretical physicists (hand waving) and mathematical physicists (mathema...

More government benefits and support in metro areas, a greater degree of socialism. Seems obvious.

From what little I know of the subject, these are reasonable comments. (Oddly, I am working on a problem in elementary complex dynamical systems that ...

Topographical map, perhaps? If it is topological, what are the open sets? Entertaining notion. Certain dynamical structures in complex function theory...

Send me your mailing address. I'll print one out on my computer and send it. You deserve no less! :cool:

How about physics? :roll:

I thought Enrique's exposition looked a bit weird, but waited for someone knowledgeable to chime in. :cool:

As for the professions, I doubt many scientists spend a lot of time mulling over the existence of a creator, rather they focus on discovering how thei...

"...can be demonstrated physically if desired" is a stretch. I can imagine flying to the moon in ten seconds, but it ain't happening! :gasp:

Become a subscriber, Chris. Or link an image from an existing (safe) site. This is an interesting thread and delves into the bizarre nature of some ma...

The math in QT itself is pretty shaky. Renormalization and regularization procedures are used to manipulate expressions that annoyingly become infinit...

It's amazing how Dirac, Feynman, and others were able to discover the mathematics to deal with a world in which visualization seems so difficult, if n...

And here, unfortunately, neither does nothing. :roll:

What a garbled mess this thread has become. :sad:

Wiki: In physics, a virtual particle is a transient quantum fluctuation Admittedly, you did say "something similar" to spiritual energy, so that lets ...

Spiritual energy is a quantum fluctuation? This is similar to ectoplasm? This sounds a bit like quantum mysticism. But whatever rings your bell.

The space part of space time is 3-D, and since 2-D is a subset of 3-D a flat square would be just that, much as you looking at one on a piece of paper...

Good point. However, should ectoplasm be detected and analyzed in a laboratory your perspective could have merit. :chin:

I question whether a future is necessary and not merely sufficient for a past. Right out of the 1960s, man! :joke:

Thanks for this gem. Makes reading these threads worthwhile. :smile:

When you finish this last book, let us know the answer, please. :roll:

Too weird. Sorry :roll:

You need to work on an axiomatic foundation for counting squares.

Math is not inherently two dimensional, although that's how the student is initially introduced to the subject. For example, college calculus normally...

Not on this thread, but in the past on this forum. I recall Frank Apisa (who was expelled) was one. I certainly never took that position. I've mention...

Yes. And I have been there. Believe me. :nerd:

Here's another one: Infinite Brooch https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Infinite_Brooch.jpg

"Don't exactly enjoy" leaves a lot of wiggle room. You probably have statistics to back up your statement. A couple of others on this forum have expre...

For many I suspect working at a job you enjoy, or at least tolerate, provides an existential dimension to your life. I fail to see that your post prov...

Think of this as a secular counterpart to The Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - all are one and there may be Christian mystics who can envis...

At each pixel a (complex number) value is computed, then the pixel is colored based on the modulus of that number. E.g., dark green=small, bright red=...

Here's a graphic example of weak emergence from a BASIC program I wrote that involved an infinite composition of complex functions. Unpredictable imag...

So how would you visualize them being one (imaginary) thing?

It's astounding how well the ancient Egyptians did this, isn't it? Continues to fascinate me. :smile:

I did that with my life, very successfully. The system doesn't necessarily have to be changed; one has to use one's imagination to solve this problem....

I'm thinking in terms of pure mathematics. Excitation in the complex vector field. I'm wondering how that might be interpreted, devoid of physics. (I'...

Metaphysicians might try to formulate and discuss ways of comprehending and envisioning the fields of physics. As a math person I easily perceive fiel...

There are conversations about life's problems that some would consider "philosophical". These are ubiquitous. But when one starts using terms like "as...

The quote is on page ten of QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, R. Feynman, Princeton University Press, 1985. It's in the introduction by Fey...

Maybe so. I haven't looked at his article in a long time. Perhaps I extrapolated an infinitesimal time period from what he said since it makes a littl...

Dr Ehlmann seems to have left the room. I find it interesting that while there is some evidence here and there (and personal experience of Moi) of tim...

By interacting with the Higgs Field, trained mystics would become weighty and pretentious. But I could be wrong. There's a lot of uncertainty here. :c...