Re: Another challenge for the conventionalists: the monster group

2020-09-13 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 9/13/2020 9:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello, Some have defended conventionalism in mathematics. I shown that hard to sustain in recursion/computability theory, and thus arithmetic. Here something which shows that it is hard to maintain conventionalism in the study of finite symmetries.

Another challenge for the conventionalists: the monster group

2020-09-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hello, Some have defended conventionalism in mathematics. I shown that hard to sustain in recursion/computability theory, and thus arithmetic. Here something which shows that it is hard to maintain conventionalism in the study of finite symmetries. Groups (mainly set of symmetries) can be deco

Underground QC

2020-09-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hello, Background radiation and quasi-particles decohere superconducting quantum computing device, suggesting to make them working underground! https://news.mit.edu/2020/cosmic-rays-limit-quantum-computing-0826?fbclid=IwAR0q7rAwj-FRRm3wzDW9HSOYyeH8IXQzOA5RtzTu_0q4o-oJDQ-xew_LLqo

Re: Probability in Everettian QM

2020-09-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 13 Sep 2020, at 01:21, PGC wrote: > > > > On Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 11:43:48 AM UTC+2 Bruno Marchal wrote: >> On 9 Sep 2020, at 16:29, PGC > > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 11:38:32 AM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> With Mechanism, we do have an ont