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Originally posted by ImaFungi
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Sorry, just seems like sophisticated numerology to me - which is, obviously, complete nonsense.
(and, yes, I am a mathematician)
Isnt math just sophisticated numerology?
Isnt math just sophisticated numerology?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by DenyObfuscation
Were any of the answers correct?
You mean the answers one would have to give in order to pass an exam?
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Originally posted by ImaFungi
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Sorry, just seems like sophisticated numerology to me - which is, obviously, complete nonsense.
(and, yes, I am a mathematician)
Isnt math just sophisticated numerology?
Not even close. One is science. One is ignorance.
[respectively]
edit on 2/19/2013 by SquirrelNutz because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by ImaFungi
Isnt math just sophisticated numerology?
Maybe you should ask if numerology is math. Other than adding digits for no apparent reason, it isn't.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by DenyObfuscation
Were any of the answers correct?
You mean the answers one would have to give in order to pass an exam?
Originally posted by ImaFungi
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Originally posted by ImaFungi
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Sorry, just seems like sophisticated numerology to me - which is, obviously, complete nonsense.
(and, yes, I am a mathematician)
Isnt math just sophisticated numerology?
Not even close. One is science. One is ignorance.
[respectively]
edit on 2/19/2013 by SquirrelNutz because: (no reason given)
what came first the universe or math? What is your focus as a mathmatician? If I can intuitively grasp the physicality of the universe without knowing much math, is that bad of me...am I wrong? If I can understand the universe by imagining the physical aspects of what goes on but do not know much math, could I ever be of use to physicists?
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Originally posted by ImaFungi
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Originally posted by ImaFungi
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Sorry, just seems like sophisticated numerology to me - which is, obviously, complete nonsense.
(and, yes, I am a mathematician)
Isnt math just sophisticated numerology?
Not even close. One is science. One is ignorance.
[respectively]
edit on 2/19/2013 by SquirrelNutz because: (no reason given)
what came first the universe or math? What is your focus as a mathmatician? If I can intuitively grasp the physicality of the universe without knowing much math, is that bad of me...am I wrong? If I can understand the universe by imagining the physical aspects of what goes on but do not know much math, could I ever be of use to physicists?
Your attempt to be philosophical is wasted. 'Intuitively grasp the universe'? What the hell does that even mean?! It is arbitrary and baseless. Not bad of you, and not wrong. But numerology contributes nothing to your argument of this notion. And, no... without math you are of no use to physicists. Period.
The math has always existed. We are just discovering and rediscovering it. It is exact. We have to find new ways to *understand* it.
Numerology was created by man. Stupid men. It is arbitrary and subjective manipulation of numbers. That is all.
Numerology is to math, what astrology is to cosmology/astronomy. Zippo.edit on 2/19/2013 by SquirrelNutz because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Americanist
reply to post by ImaFungi
Here's a head nod... Analyze the design work of LED's.
Originally posted by ImaFungi
you can spend your whole life doing math and thinking about numbers, I can spend my whole life thinking about the universe (intuitively grasping the mathematical concepts without doing the math, like a basketball player can make a jump shot without doing trigonometry) there for it is possible I can have a better grasp and understanding on what the universe is, then someone who just plays with numbers.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by ImaFungi
you can spend your whole life doing math and thinking about numbers, I can spend my whole life thinking about the universe (intuitively grasping the mathematical concepts without doing the math, like a basketball player can make a jump shot without doing trigonometry) there for it is possible I can have a better grasp and understanding on what the universe is, then someone who just plays with numbers.
I doubt that's possible. In my experience the most amazing stuff becomes accessible through math, in part because some of the phenomena is not even visible to human eye or perceptible otherwise, and can only be appreciated via its mathematical description, to begin with. Comparison with an athlete is completely off mark here, because it is indeed rooted in a mechanical and mechanistic, if you will, sort of environment which we are already relatively good at perceiving, because of our dependency on it and the evolution process which educated us in great deal regarding that. There is no intuition that will tell you that the electric field tends to be stronger in the vicinity of strongly curved conducting surfaces (of which a particular case is a spike or a wire). There is no intuition that will tell you that the plane of polarization of light will be rotated in a solution of sugar. Heck, your intuition will be mum when you consider total internal reflection. So no, don't fool yourself, you don't have much "grasp" of anything by just looking around.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
"15 February 2013, Vortex Electricity, Daniel Nunez, Randy Powell, The Energy Evolution"
Beginning at about 29:18 Randy Powell talked about light not being able to escape from a black hole, but that he has a theory that sound can.
Uploaded on Mar 1, 2010
Saturn
On the 25 August 1981, the probe Voyager 2 approached the Saturn system.
The probe is carrying different detectors : magnetometers, plasma detectors, low-energy charged particles detectors, cosmic rays detectors, radiowaves receivers.
Recordings were made.
Interractions of the solar wind with planet's magnetosphere, magnetosphere itself, electromagnetic fields, charged particles emissions, charged particle interactions of the planet, its moons, and the solar wind.
All this electromagnetic phenomenons can be transformed into electric signals, which can in turn be amplified and used to excite the membrane of a loud speaker ; thus making audible to the human ear the rustling of the cosmos.
All these sounds were recorded while Voyager 2 was passing near Saturn, and assembled without manipulation.
Extract from "Symphonies of the planets vol.6 - Saturn", Nasa Voyager Recordings, Brain/Mind Research, 1990.
voyager.jpl.nasa.gov... en.wikipedia.org...
en.wikipedia.org...
www.ciclops.org...
"Simply put, we are all electric beings who inhabit an electric universe.
Sounds, thoughts, colors, and just about everything we perceive are electrical impulses that are being translated into usable information by our brains.
When I said sounds are electrical; I was referring to the fact that we generate sounds using a simple device which is, in fact, creating electrical oscillations.
The phenomena occurs at different frequencies from coil to coil, but generally happens in the Kilohertz range. This provides us with a different understanding of sound and the relationship it maintains with the surrounding environment."
Originally posted by buddhasystem
reply to post by Mary Rose
Unsurprisingly, Nunez gave you a really messed up answer, which goes like this:
"Simply put, we are all electric beings who inhabit an electric universe.
A statement that is so generic and grand it's useless. If someone takes out my pancreas, I'll be suffering not because my electric circuit is broken, but because of a plethora of chemical imbalances it will create.
Let me guess...you also read the wiki on protons 50 times?
Originally posted by ImaFungi
Sounds about right to me... quarks have electric charge, so do electrons, and thats what we are made of.
most of a proton's mass comes from the gluons that bind the constituent quarks together, rather than from the quarks themselves
Physicists don't have it so easy to just delete their negative peer review, like Nunez deleted his "peer review" comments on youtube. I was disappointed to see him do that rather than address the questions and issues raised. But, we see a lot of that kind of avoidance here too, when people ask tough questions, like how Wippler knows our observations of the Solar magnetic cycle are wrong.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I communicated with Nunez on YouTube and unfortunately he's just not a smart person.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Let me guess...you also read the wiki on protons 50 times?
Originally posted by ImaFungi
Sounds about right to me... quarks have electric charge, so do electrons, and thats what we are made of.
most of a proton's mass comes from the gluons that bind the constituent quarks together, rather than from the quarks themselves
Originally posted by ImaFungi
How many gluons are in a proton?
All magnetic dipoles are created the same way, this included bar magnets and even planets, and yes the sun too. if you hold a bar magnet in your hand for 11 years would you expect the poles to reverse?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Answers that would agree with observation, like the sun reversing magnetic polarity every 11 years. Wippler says our observations are wrong.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
You mean the answers one would have to give in order to pass an exam?
How does he know this, and what observations has he made to refute this, and how has he made them?
I was looking forward to seeing his explanation but he never gave any.edit on 19-2-2013 by Arbitrageur because: clarification