Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-22 Thread Torgny Tholerus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > > As far as I tell tell, all of physics is ultimately > geometry. But as we've pointed out on this list many times, a theory > of physics is *not* a theory of everything, since it makes the > (probably false) assumption that everything is reducible to physical > substan

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-22 Thread marc . geddes
On Nov 23, 1:10 am, Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now such work raises the remark, which I don't really want to develop > now, which is that qualifiying "TOE" a theory explaining "only" forces > and particles or field, is implicit physicalism, and we know (by UDA) > that this is

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-22 Thread George Levy
One more question: can or should p be the observer? George George Levy wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > I am reopening an old thread ( more than a year old) which I found > very intriguing. It leads to some startling conclusions. > > Le 05-août-06, à 02:07, George Levy a écrit : > > Bruno Marchal wrote:I t

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-22 Thread George Levy
Hi Bruno, I am reopening an old thread ( more than a year old) which I found very intriguing. It leads to some startling conclusions. Le 05-août-06, à 02:07, George Levy a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote:I think that if you want to make the first person primitive, given that neither you nor me

Re: Cantor's Diagonal

2007-11-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 21-nov.-07, à 17:33, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : > What do you think of this "proof"?: > > Let us have the bijection: > > 0 {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,...} > 1 {1,0,0,0,0,0,0,...} > 2 {0,1,0,0,0,0,0,...} > 3 {1,1,0,0,0,0,0,...} > 4 {0,0,1,0,0,0,0,...} > 5

Re: elaboration Re: Cantor's Diagonal

2007-11-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 22-nov.-07, à 07:19, Barry Brent a écrit : > > The reason it isn't a bijection (of a denumerable set with the set of > binary sequences): the pre-image (the left side of your map) isn't > a set--you've imposed an ordering. Sets, qua sets, don't have > orderings. Orderings are extra. (I'm

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 21-nov.-07, à 19:54, George Levy a écrit : > A theory of everyting is sweeping the Physics community. > > > The theory by Garrett Lisi is explained in this Wiki entry. > > > A simulation of E8 can be found a the New Scientist. > > > The Wiki entry on E8 is also interesting. Thanks, very