On 19/08/18 00:34, David Kastrup wrote: > As any theoretical physicist will tell you, anything that involves > actual hardware also is maths.
Are you telling me that maths PREscribes reality? Are you telling me that Newton got it right? If hardware is maths, then how comes physicists aren't creating the reality we would like to live in? Mathematics DEscribes reality. As I understand it, SCOTUS said that anything that could be done by sweat of the brow, anything that could be done by someone with pencil and paper and infinite time, is not patentable. As such, any and all calculations are not patentable. Any DEscription of reality is not patentable. LOGIC (and that includes mathematics) is NOT PATENTABLE. (Doesn't prevent patent attorneys trying, and succeeding :-( The whole point of patents is that they describe what happens in reality, what we usually do not understand of the maths, or how we tip the maths to work in our favour. I like to draw a little distinction between mathematics and science. A mathematical proof says "this is logically correct". A scientific proof says "this is not reality". Theoretical physicists aren't scientists, they're mathematicians. Patents are there for technologists, for people who deal with scientific proofs, not for mathematicians dealing with mathematical proofs. A patent deals with "this is how we get reality to do what we want", not with "this is what logic says should happen". Newton is easy to prove MATHEMATICALLY CORRECT. He is also easy to prove SCIENTIFICALLY WRONG. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
