apokrisis

What, you have never heard this before? Standard cosmology. https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/c/Critical+Density

Well, you don’t have an organised approach to explaining. There’s that.

So do you mean you are focused on the contrast in epistemologies or on Peirce’s ontic position on causation? Hume is the big set piece epistemological...

That hasn't been an interest of mine. But Googling "peirce hume miracles" brings up https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/29194829.pdf as its first hit. And...

And I've had quite enough of your misrepresentations.

You're an idiot.

Where in your confusion do you see that contained in what I said? Quite clearly I said space - as in a smoothly connected manifold - can be either fla...

What, they weren't skeptical? You have to see that you come across as a crackpot, especially where your view builds off crackpots like Randell Mills a...

Stop making shit up. I said space would be flat to the degree it ain’t curved and curved to the degree it ain’t flat. The issue was how to measure the...

Well yes. The muon issue was already clear by the conclusion of the Brookhaven experiment in 2001. I was asking you for a preon based view. When it be...

Like what wild idea in particular? I’m sure that if you can think of an example, you will find wide discussion of its merits. There will be an informe...

Sure. So what is the problem? Apart from needing to be consistent with the facts as well.

It would be about being able to make a scholarly case either way.

I think the irony is rather that mathematical physics has become an industry of ill-motivated speculation. The academies are pumping out post-grads tr...

This is just babble. The question was about how the charges could rotate wider - in some hand-waving analogy to electron orbits - when you are also re...

I was saying that the physical idea of a constraint works better as it is large enough to include determinism without presuming determinism and thus e...

Alternatively, particle physics is exactly where concepts of logical necessity and physical causation intersect in practice. It is the frontline of th...

Are you claiming superbradyons have something to do with your approach? Am I suppose to understand that your specific points are all to be found in ri...

OK. Time to produce some references to the particular preon theory you are describing.

It's only you who insists on seeing the embedding dimension that the intrinsic curvature of differential geometry has long done away with. So you are ...

There are specific and general problems with preons as far as I can see. You said that preons explained the g-2 result. But that turns out to be just ...

Is it actually a point or also a region of excitation? And either way, that gets us into the issue of how you can pack three degrees of freedom into s...

How does that explain the muon discrepancy? An electron would also have the same structure by your account. So why does the electron conform to Standa...

https://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/06/19/helicity-chirality-mass-and-the-higgs/

If you call the mainstream trend of thought a fantasy, then they are right to treat you like a crackpot. If you made a well motivated case for why it ...

All elementary particles are composite in some sense even in the Standard Model view. Quarks mix like neutrinos. Photons are effective mixes of Bs and...

Even I sort of agree with you on preons. :grin:

There’ve been a string of past members enthusiastic about rishons and preons here. @"Prishon", @"MatterGauge", @"EugeneW", probably many more. In fact...

But isn’t that what we would say about the running of a computer program? So it is the other way around. The problem is the need to amend the usual no...

Or did I say the larger picture sees flatness as poised between the opposing extremes of hyperbolic and hyperspheric curvature? And that is why the va...

:lol:

Or maybe it's not a great term. I see Kant as very cumbersome here. This is what Peirce fixed with his pragmatic theory of truth. He showed how reason...

This is far truer of humans than other creatures. In what may have been a happy accident, we first became bipedal apes, but that new pelvis restricted...

One quick point. How much does your question change when it is placed in time rather than regarded as an essentially timeless issue? So speaking of "k...

Matt is great. But not had time to catch up on that one yet.

Not really if you simply confirm what I argue while denying you confirm what I argue. Yes. That’s fine up until the point where you fail to deal with ...

Sounds like a plan. :clap:

Well stated. The key here is that logical necessity is about rule-following or syntax. And that puts it in a tricky place regarding semantics. It leav...

Oh lordy! Once you get set to digging yourself a hole, you never give up on the project, do you? :up:

Sure, that will work if you live in a flat world. But the flatness of the world itself is what we want to check here.

:lol:

And how are you measuring that degree of curvature exactly? What is your non-arbitrary yardstick? :rofl: Let me check. So to be flat is to lack curve....

It is meant to inform you. What contradiction? Even in ordinary language, flat and curved would be a pair of dichotomously opposed limits - two extrem...

You are disputing about the most significant step forward in modern geometrical thought. Drop the hysteria.

Crikey. And yet two lines - as x = 1 and x = 2 - can start off as points in parallel. Cripes. You mean non-Euclidean geometry is legit? Jeepers. You m...

What’s arbitrary about it? Parallel lines converge in the one and diverge in the other. An ant traversing a sphere sees a different world from an ant ...

You have talked right past the point in your usual fashion. The uncurved line is what neatly separates the lines with positive curvature from those wi...

It is the bounding limit on curvature. That point was dealt with. True that.

How original.

Yep. You spend all day posting and yet there is an aimless feel about these actions.