• Why Was There A Big Bang
    The PBS digital series has said that entropy comes from quantum physics, that time comes from entropy, and that gravity comes from time. So it seems the quantum is the root of gravity. How this works is what present research in studying. Quantum gravityGregory

    Now here is a sensible thing said!
  • Why Was There A Big Bang
    Time' is a metric of asymmetric change180 Proof

    No. Time is just a coordinate on a manifold. This time coordinate has a varying pace. Together with space it forms the whole of spacetime, Entropic time shows the asymmetry you talk about. There is no metric of asymmetric change. Where did you get THAT from? The problem with 4d smooth clasdical spacetime is that it contains potential singularities and that it's supposed not to lay in a higher dimensional space. Crackpots like him above are not able to leave their safehouses. Be it because of lack imagination or because of fear (which doesnt take awsy the fact though that they possess SOME knowledge. That of math, the easiest part though, but nailing him down). When no time is there before the bang it just cant bang. However imaginary you make time. Right. Now look for things untrue mister wiseguy!
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    I think it'sYOU who is the crackpot. Only your crack doesnt really crack anything.
  • Why Was There A Big Bang
    or perhaps there was more than one time.magritte

    Hawking invented imaginary time to take care of the time before time. Multiple times always shift the problem.
  • What is Information?
    Your most fundamental thought, is a mirror image of fundamental reality.Pop

    I don't think so. There is no fundamental thought That assumption assumes the existence of a fundamental. What is considered as derived from the fundamental in this view can in fact be equal to all forms. It could be that there is no hierachy. With fundamental slaveforms at the bottom and and a tirant form at the top.
  • Does causality exist?
    I write notebooks starting from the last page, and ending at the front.Corvus

    Not for being nosey but just out of curiosity: what are the notes about? Which makes that you start at the end? ☺
  • Can we see the brain as an analogue computer?
    Whatever the case, it seems human mind cannot be reduced to the workings of the signals. But the signals could be converted to replicate some of the functions of human brain.Corvus

    It took a while to get a grip (I have read this sentence over and over again, with different emphasis, even loudup, th annoyance of my wife...Women...). But now I have that grip its crystal clear, another example of how concourse is done). If you have not eaten yet: buon appetito! ☺
  • What meant Plato and Aristotle (P&A) mean by improvement?


    I only saw your message now...Welcome (I have been around only three days myself so Im not sure I can say this, but wtf). If you want to let someone know that you give a reaction you can select a part of the text you wanna respond to and the press on "quote", upper right.
    You can also press that blue curved arrow left below. :smile:

    Again, great answer! Thanks for taking the time (if time could be taken).
  • Can we see the brain as an analogue computer?
    Damned! I contemplated your answer. Like this the brain looks more like a digital one... Or maybe a quantized analogue one.Thanks for the lecture!
  • Can we know in what realm Plato's mathematical objects exist?


    "the unreasonable effectiveness" is also a product of human mind? "

    :heart:
  • Does causality exist?
    By the way, the very strange tachyons move back in time. They are thought to exist when the endstage of the universe causes a new big bang.
  • Does causality exist?
    Many books are written backwards. Effect proceeding the cause.
  • Does causality exist?
    . I don't hold it as the true position, but as an experimental hypothesis.Yohan

    :ok:
  • Does causality exist?
    The front of a comic book doesn't cause the end of the comic bookYohan

    That depends. If it's on fire than it's probably the end. The fire causing it though.
  • Can we know in what realm Plato's mathematical objects exist?


    Yoou could call it as well the reasonable effectiveness. The reason being that Natural processes are patterned inherently structured.
  • To What Extent is the Mind/Body Problem a Question of Metaphysics?
    I have no apparent reason to say I'm not – this is what a p-zombie would say too. You see how absurdly irrelevant this line of questioning is? Of course you don't.180 Proof

    :heart:

    Im not sure though that subjective reports sre notoriously irreliable. Should I trust your writings?

    :broken:
  • What meant Plato and Aristotle (P&A) mean by improvement?
    Man!What an answer! Seems you have timetraveled from ancient Greek. And sprinkled with modern day chips! This counts as 10 first posts!
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    That's the one! I dont know Magritte personally but that minds eye I like. I did a simiiar one. A copy in fact. But the blue sky with clouds replaced by thunder and lightning. He was a bit too optimistc ..
  • If there are simulated worlds, does there have to be a first non-simulated one?


    Thats an interesting approach! Let me contemplate on it. ☺
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    The most philosophical painter is Magritte though.
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    Now we're talking! I like that piece where something is coming out. To attack you. A big painting.
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    Banno's come to be a peacemaker where there was no war. :chin:frank

    Sometimes war is for the best of all..
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    indignation.Banno

    What indignation? That of me?
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    Triviality has function; in this case, the social role of easing indignation.Banno

    Sounds pretty trivial...
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    and to think Banno was suggesting a lack of erudition...Isaac

    Indeed! He hangs up erudition very high in the tree of trviality. Triviality tree stands high and powerful. Waving its leaves in the wind of ignorance.
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    I would argue that an issue caused by the absence of drugs is indeed the result of drugs.Banno

    Yes, thats a good point indeed! Thanks
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    which it now seems was a result of drugs and lack of sleep rather than a lack of knowledge. My apologies for causing offence.Banno

    Now where did you get THAT idea? My insomnia was caused by the ABSENCE of drugs. Havent found the Italics button yet.
  • Why Was There A Big Bang
    Well maybe there is underying mechanics. But thats merely described by math.

    There are quantum fields. The idea is pretty simple. These fields can be described by Feynman diagrams, but only for perturbative approaches. The non-perturbative approach CANNOT use Feynman diagrams. At least thats the prevailing view. So what then? Im not sure yet but I have an idea.

    The basic quantum fields are three massless Weyl-fields (rishons) interacting by 7 gauge fields. There is a massless graviton field. But the gravitons are not pointlike, solving infinities. No strings but kinda similar. Later I write some more about the arena on which this is all happening. With a surprising interpretation of dark energy.
  • Why Was There A Big Bang
    There is no underlying mechanics or underlying math. Thats what WE impose on it.
  • Why Was There A Big Bang
    You didn't observe it, you can't observe it and even if you could, observing it would not tell you the underlying mechanics of what isHermeticus

    Here you are simply wrong. How did Einstein invent his GR?
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    Yes I already expected that question. Let me say this. The math is easy. It merely describes the idea of whats going on. Im way past of the math description. And this is not the place to show it. If you want I can show you a small wordly explanation. But Im not giving away here the whole math description.
  • Madness is rolling over Afghanistan
    1dReplyShareFlagssu

    Almost a perfect answer! :heart:
  • Do the basics of logic depend on experience?
    but again completely different from ours.Mersi

    What's so completely different?
  • A Study On Modus Ponens
    All mortals are men. Felicia (Alice's sister) is mortal. Therefore, she 's a man.
  • Who is to blame for climate change?
    The ones NOT to blame: all indigenous people living in harmony with Nature. Also non-indigenous ones living on the brink of starvation, being terrorized by western, science-based weaponry, the Tssr Bomba, of which mad scientist Teller is the father (not even thinking he might have done something wrong, like papa Oppenheimer) is the ultimate example. One flash, and gone is everything.
  • Why Was There A Big Bang
    There was a big bang because we can't divide by zero.TheMadFool

    This is exactly the reason there could NOT have been a big bang!
  • Did Socrates really “know nothing”?
    Did Socrates really knew nothing? Yes.

    He didn't know how to walk. He didn't know how to rock and roll. He didn't know how to sleep. He didn't know how to look. He didn't know how to eat and drink. He didn't know how to love or fuck. He didn't know how to treat his mom and dad. Or his kids (if he had them). He didn't know how to kill himself. That's why that was arranged for him.
  • Can we see the brain as an analogue computer?
    So, am I typing on a digital computer? My QPSK cable modem uses a continuous signalInPitzotl

    No, you are not typing on a digital computer. You are typing on a dial board.