Re: A preferred direction to the universe?

2020-04-29 Thread Philip Thrift
If space itself is some sort of dark stuff (or is filled with stuff), and that stuff is not "uniformly distributed" and it interacts with all the "observable" stuff, then this could make sense. And few think that most of fundamental physics is the right set of "equations" anyway. @philipthri

How math is ruining physics

2020-04-29 Thread Philip Thrift
Over the past few decades there is an explosion of people who think the "mathiest" math will help in advancing physics. This is a typical example: *Modern Physics formalized in Modal Homotopy Type Theory* https://ncatlab.org/schreiber/show/Modern+Physics+formalized+in+Modal+Homotopy+Type+Theor

The Wolfram Model

2020-04-29 Thread Philip Thrift
The "hypergraph" stuff from Stephen Wolfram in recent news on his "new foundation" of physics has a name: *The Wolfram Model.* *Some Relativistic and Gravitational Properties of the Wolfram* *Model* Jonathan Gorard https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/wolframphysics/Documents/some-quantum-mechani

Re: A preferred direction to the universe?

2020-04-29 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:42 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, having read the article this is a result I hope disappears in the > light of further work. This would almost mean the universe has no rhyme or > reason at all. > Before 1900 the shape of the blackb

Re: How math is ruining physics

2020-04-29 Thread John Clark
Most physicists are not working at the most fundamental level of reality, they're a solid state physicist or a thermodynamicist or an astrophysicist, but if you are working at that level then you have no choice but to go deeper and deeper into very abstract mathematics. Everybody would prefer it if

RE: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-04-29 Thread Philip Benjamin
No, “the homogeneity of the CMB” tells NOTHING about causality, origin, meaning, morals, eschaton or infinite regress. It simply believes that CNB is homogeneous, that is all. What is MORE rational? Life-less CMB is aseitous and produce life? Or, INTELLIGENT LIFE is aseitous and create both dead

Beautiful Avatar like glowing plants are now real

2020-04-29 Thread John Clark
People have made glowing plants before but they only glowed dimly and for a short amount of time, but for the first time scientists have used genetic engineering to make a plant that glowed permanently, from the day it sprouted from a seed to the day it died, and it's 10 times brighter than any pre

Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-04-29 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 9:12:52 AM UTC-5, medinuclear wrote: > > No, “the homogeneity of the CMB” tells NOTHING about causality, origin, > meaning, morals, eschaton or infinite regress. It simply believes that > CNB is homogeneous, that is all. What is *MORE* rational? Life-less CMB > is

Re: How math is ruining physics

2020-04-29 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
It's a symptom of success.  Physics has done a good job of modeling everything within the scope of experiment and observation.  So now extending theories means going beyond what's testable; i.e. speculation. Brent On 4/29/2020 1:10 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: Over the past few decades there is

Re: How math is ruining physics

2020-04-29 Thread Lawrence Crowell
How about p-adic K-theory and topology? This has some possible connection to physics, but physics most likely does not need all the mathematical theorem-proof aspects of this. We physicists after all tend to have a bit of a Babylonian maths perspective, as Feynman put it. LC On Wednesday, Apr

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-04-29 Thread ronaldheld
What will I be getting from reading these long papers? Ronald On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 4:40:56 AM UTC-4, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > The "hypergraph" stuff from Stephen Wolfram in recent news on his "new > foundation" of physics has a name: > *The Wolfram Model.* > > > > *Some Relativ

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-04-29 Thread Philip Thrift
You will be introduced to the true formulation of the foundations of physics - which will lead to its unification - leaving behind the deluding morass of the old mathematical-physics foundations you were brainwashed with as a student. What else? @philipthrift On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 a

Re: How math is ruining physics

2020-04-29 Thread Philip Thrift
Shouldn't that come out of the Wolfram Model? Probably could. @philipthrift On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 1:00:33 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > How about p-adic K-theory and topology? > > This has some possible connection to physics, but physics most likely does > not need all the

Re: How math is ruining physics

2020-04-29 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 2:46:47 PM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > > Shouldn't that come out of the Wolfram Model? > > Probably could. > > @philipthrift > My look at this is it appears to be combinatorics or graph theory, Also it has features similar to the AI graphs of Nerode and oth

Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-04-29 Thread Eva
You are right and it is very surprising to me that some people praise Catholic Church for superior progress of Latin Civilization compared to others. And it is very interesting what you wrote about Tao. I just started reading a book: https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrimages-Emptiness-Rethinking-Real

Re: How math is ruining physics

2020-04-29 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/29/2020 4:36 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 2:46:47 PM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: Shouldn't that come out of the Wolfram Model? Probably could. @philipthrift My look at this is it appears to be combinatorics or graph theory, Also it has fe

Re: Vacuum energy

2020-04-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 1:30:59 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 5:49:15 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 3:51:03 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:18 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >

Re: Vacuum energy

2020-04-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 6:12:21 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 1:30:59 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 5:49:15 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 3:51:03 AM UTC-6, John Clark

Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-04-29 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
I can see the platonism of things or imagine that I can.I am profoundly convinced also (another topic) that math is truly a gift, due to the wiring of neurons. To your point my idea of Ludwig Boltzmann's simply seems logical, or the simplest explanation for things as they appear to us now. I am

Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-04-29 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 7:00:00 PM UTC-5, Eva wrote: > > You are right and it is very surprising to me that some people praise > Catholic Church for superior progress of Latin Civilization compared to > others. > > > And it is very interesting what you wrote about Tao. I just started > r

Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-04-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 8:50:38 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 11:20:37 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 27 Apr 2020, at 14:36, Lawrence Crowell >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 4:14:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>>