On Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 8:36:03 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *>>That depends on if Euclid, a mathematician not a physicist, was right and there are an infinite number of points in a line, or if there are only an astronomical number to an astronomical power number of them. And nobody knows which of those two possibilities is true. * *> Between zero and 90 degrees, there are an infinite number of RATIONAL polarizer settings,* *You understand that there is a difference between an abstract Euclidean circle and a real physical circle, the sort of circle that you make polarizers out of, don't you? Nobody doubts that between any two points in a Euclidean line you can always find a point between them, but is that also true for a real physical line? Can you really keep dividing up space up into smaller and smaller pieces forever? Nobody knows. And I could say the same thing about time. * *I agree. Now tell me what role S's equation plays in asserting the claim that all polarization occur in some world. AG * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* nbk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/4af5de39-464c-4b0d-a85b-15f7b7407cf4n%40googlegroups.com.
