It's worth getting right. You're quite right. The set was Z not Z', but I was representing the elements of Z as ordered pairs which is invalid, since ...
The hadron is a system. You would say the mass of a bowl of fruit is intrinsic to the bowl of fruit: it is derived from the masses of its constituents...
I've been thinking more about this and I think the creative idea ("Hold on, guys, I have an idea!") encapsulates all three elements of a guided search...
You mean meme theory, as hypothesised by Richard Dawkins and ran with most notably by Daniel Dennett, two thinkers very much in the public eye? It's a...
One doesn't expect much from you, MU, but even so... To acknowledge on the one hand that the mass of the hadron cannot be due to the intrinsic masses ...
Which ought to give you a clue, since gluons are massless. Therefore what you call the intrinsic inertia of the massive particles in a hadron -- the r...
Yes. No, now you're conflating two different things. Euthanasia is mercy killing. If you 'euthanise' someone who isn't suffering, it's not euthanasia ...
We are. There are selfish suicides, like throwing yourself in front of a bus or train, or blowing your brains out in your kitchen for your partner to ...
Cool. I think there's a little more to do on multiplication before starting on the complex numbers, after which it seems sensible to head into group t...
But it doesn't, does it? Corporations do this, and often before the science is understood. For instance, McDonald's knew that billboard advertising in...
Except that isn't the case. You read the above, you thought about it, you referred to past thoughts and experiences, decided what you wanted to convey...
Whereas I'm saying the converse, that if all possible mathematical worlds were real, there would be nothing abstract at all. For any mathematical poss...
On the first day of ordering, the Lord said let \mathbb{N} be the set of all natural numbers, then for any pair of natural numbers x and y, y is the g...
Indeed. As I said myself: But that only seems to me to put a tick in the physicalism box. That said, consider a universe in which the dimensions are i...
Yes. This is the clincher. Usual arguments against free will or compatibilism that I've seen implicitly or explicitly assume a definition of free will...
And yet they're not. And even if they were, that would not be evidence of no racial bias. Black people are more often pulled over in stop and search, ...
And yet your entire objection was that inertia is not accepted as what you insist it is, namely an inherent property of the body in question. And whil...
For reasons already given but seemingly ignored. This isn't the 80s anymore. You can't just ignore evidence and claim it's a mystery/non-issue. You do...
This is making the exact same fallacious remark again. Because it also happens to white people, it isn't systematically happening to black people twic...
And, knowing all this, the electorate handed the Tories in their most ridiculous incarnation a landslide victory, all because they hate brown-skinned ...
Btw obvs the OP is comparing Platonism, nominalism and mathematician, not physicalism. I agree with the OP that mathematician makes more sense. The fa...
Which actually is named after George Floyd. It is confusing. Is your suggestion here that if police brutality is disproportionately aimed at black peo...
I think the context is sufficient to see that the word 'agreed' was not what I was taking issue with. There are three possible viewpoints: 1. I think ...
Neither, rather that inertia is one of the 'bits' we didn't used to know and now know with some degree of confidence through experimental verification...
Fair enough, a sort of abstract multiverse (itself a theory of abstraction). But why stop at mathematical universe's? Why not consider a much larger i...
There's a lot of evidence in the OP that argument doesn't sit so well. That's the point of view I refer to, the one which gave rise to the question an...
It's difficult if not impossible to conceive of a Universe that isn't mathematical. It would have to be one in which quantity was meaningless, that ha...
That's fear of someone else's death, though. Different kettle of fish. Rather money is the anti-death insofar as those who have the most live the long...
To be clear, I'm not pro-Euthenising ones least favourite child. Just that no one should be imprisoned for mercy, decency, love and compassion. Agreed...
Well, that's true. Media thrives on fear and politics, and politicians thrive on media. But when you have a POTUS who is vocally attempting to subvert...
I'm afraid not, for a few reasons. First, particles are defined by their rest masses, not frame-dependent masses, and as magnitudes of four-momenta wh...
I fear death. I just fear dementia and infirmity more. I'm pro-Euthenasia, both politically and personally. Actually I'm pro-Euthenasia about quite a ...
What are you saying here? That when the POTUS declares he will contest the election if he loses, he intends to discount votes that don't tend to go th...
The theory has been verified by observation already, fulfilling the criteria of good science. 'The way I'd like things to be' does not. It is not nece...
This point of view only makes sense if you believe YOU ARE RIGHT and that anyone who points out an error IS ATTACKING YOU. It's that millennial mental...
I wonder how they'll rationalise fending off any challenge to Trump's election, which would be the obvious response. The use and misuse of voting mach...
I agree with this. Casting doubt on the election result at all prior to the election constitutes election meddling. And Trump is a fascist, that is cl...
Inertia in the Standard Model has always arisen from the external influence of the Higgs field, from way before the existence of the Higgs was experim...
We had a similar thing in the UK with Brexit. The leavers won 51:49%. Because David Gammeron was too thickly cut to consider the possibility that the ...
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