[Tfug] Apple Mac OS X: tool of Godless Darwinists and Communist / TROLL ALERT?

[Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com]

Hi Don,

rational/irrational quibbling...  is it a question of semantics or 
ontology?

I'm  really not very knowledgable about math.  I've only made it through 
2nd quarter calculus.--  but baggage regarding our perceptions?

It's more of question really, of wondering if we've gone down so far in 
our existing formulas like the value of a so-called cosmological constant, 
that our subsequent formulas, knowledge, and physics, although they work 
in a classical sense, will never ever ever come out right in a quantum 
sense.
just wondering... 

and why take a valium if I'm in zen mode?  oh - maybe the folks around 
wouldn't want to hear my lovely voice!  ;-)

Respectfully,
Liz, Data Base Administrator,
Methods Engineering





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Hi, Liz,

--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com 
[snip]
 
> and then I wonder how much is really
> a product of our mathematics when our mathematics is
> inately inadequte since reality is really irrational numbers 
> anyay, and how we decide to
> frame it is based on the precision and scale of the numbers
> we use to represent it.

This is a good point (though I can quibble over rational/irrational,
etc.)

Unfortunately, I have forgotten more than I ever knew so I can't
cite specifics but I seem to recall the concept of zero was a
dramatic step forward in mathematical concepts.  And, moving to
a "positional" (?) numbering system vs. something like Roman
numerals made "higher math" much more likely to evolve.

So, what baggage does our current math carry with it and what
does it prevent us from seeing more clearly?

> If mathematics can yield such far off results based on 4 decimal
> positions out, then what can a full pi really do?
> Gosh, going in to zen mode - yet again. 
> 
> I should sing now...  "It's zen again..."

Yikes!  Give that girl some valium...  ;-)


 

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