Re: Precision

2019-05-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 20 May 2019, at 01:15, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 10:37:31 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 17 May 2019, at 09:04, Philip Thrift > >> wrote: >> >> >> On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 6:13:37 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> On Thursday, May 16, 2019

Re: Precision

2019-05-19 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 10:37:31 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 17 May 2019, at 09:04, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 6:13:37 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 11:57:44 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 15 May

Re: Precision

2019-05-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 17 May 2019, at 09:04, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 6:13:37 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 11:57:44 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 15 May 2019, at 03:07, Lawrence Crowell > >> wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9

Re: Precision

2019-05-17 Thread Philip Thrift
On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 6:13:37 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 11:57:44 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 15 May 2019, at 03:07, Lawrence Crowell >> wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9:24:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> >>> > On

Re: Precision

2019-05-16 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 11:57:44 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 15 May 2019, at 03:07, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9:24:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> > On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: >> > >> > ‘I believe there are >> 15,

Re: Precision

2019-05-16 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
Eddington wrote a book "Fundamental Theory" which was apparently never quite finished.  I only know of it because there's a book I have by Higman "Applied Group Theoretic and Matrix Methods" that devotes the last chapter to a review of Eddington's "Quantum Relativity" in which he says he gives

Re: Precision

2019-05-16 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Am 16.05.2019 um 19:05 schrieb Bruno Marchal: On 15 May 2019, at 19:01, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: This is not a joke. For internal reason Eddington evaluated the number of particles as N = 2 x 136 x 2^256. Is 136 related to some physical constant? Why 2^(a power of two)? Any idea where this e

Re: Precision

2019-05-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 15 May 2019, at 19:01, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > This is not a joke. For internal reason Eddington evaluated the number of > particles as N = 2 x 136 x 2^256. Is 136 related to some physical constant? Why 2^(a power of two)? Any idea where this estimation comes from, and why it would b

Re: Precision

2019-05-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 15 May 2019, at 03:07, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9:24:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi > > > wrote: > > > > ‘I believe there are > > 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,7

Re: Precision

2019-05-16 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 5/16/2019 4:48 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 6:39:57 PM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 5:58:07 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:59:59 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote:

Re: Precision

2019-05-16 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 6:39:57 PM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 5:58:07 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:59:59 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 8:07:07 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Cro

Re: Precision

2019-05-15 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 5:58:07 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:59:59 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 8:07:07 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >>> >>> On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9:24:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal w

Re: Precision

2019-05-15 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:59:59 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 8:07:07 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9:24:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> >>> > On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: >>> > >>> > ‘

Re: Precision

2019-05-15 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 1:41:35 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 5/14/2019 10:59 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > That "there is only one electron in the universe. All these electrons we > see are just the same electron weaving through space and time" would > explain telepathy and precog

Re: Precision

2019-05-15 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 5/14/2019 10:59 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: That "there is only one electron in the universe. All these electrons we see are just the same electron weaving through space and time" would explain telepathy and precognition. Only the way "God did it." explains the miracles at Lourdes. Brent

Re: Precision

2019-05-15 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Am 15.05.2019 um 07:59 schrieb Philip Thrift: ... On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ‘I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe, and the same number of electrons.’

Re: Precision

2019-05-15 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
This is not a joke. For internal reason Eddington evaluated the number of particles as N = 2 x 136 x 2^256. To show it more vividly, he has written this result in full. Evgenii Am 14.05.2019 um 16:24 schrieb Bruno Marchal: On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ‘I believe there a

Re: Precision

2019-05-14 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 8:07:07 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9:24:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> > On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: >> > >> > ‘I believe there are >> 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,

Re: Precision

2019-05-14 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 9:24:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi > > wrote: > > > > ‘I believe there are > 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 > > protons in the universe,

Re: Precision

2019-05-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 12 May 2019, at 09:08, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > ‘I believe there are > 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 > protons in the universe, and the same number of electrons.’ > > Eddington, Arthur S. 1939. The Philosophy

Precision

2019-05-12 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
‘I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe, and the same number of electrons.’ Eddington, Arthur S. 1939. The Philosophy of Physical Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 1

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? Tronnies may explain pi's precision.

2015-01-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2015, at 19:43, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 Bruno Marchal wrote: > Note that a theory which would requires nature to exploit infinite precision would entail the falsity of computationalism. Yes, and if the theory was correct it would also prove that the R

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? Tronnies may explain pi's precision.

2015-01-28 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 Bruno Marchal wrote: > Note that a theory which would requires nature to exploit infinite > precision would entail the falsity of computationalism. > Yes, and if the theory was correct it would also prove that the Real Numbers are really real. John K Clark

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? Tronnies may explain pi's precision.

2015-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jan 2015, at 10:55, LizR wrote: I must admit I am a little suspicious of a theory that requires nature to exhibit infinite precision. Note that a theory which would requires nature to exploit infinite precision would entail the falsity of computationalism. The apparent existence of

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? Tronnies may explain pi's precision.

2015-01-28 Thread LizR
I must admit I am a little suspicious of a theory that requires nature to exhibit infinite precision. -- 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

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? Tronnies may explain pi's precision.

2015-01-22 Thread John Ross
Tronnies may explain the need for π’s precission. Coulomb’s Law requires that all charged particles be point particles or made from point particles. Tronnies are point particles with a charge of plus e or minus e. Their charge of e means the tronnies are the source of the Coulomb force whi