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- Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:07 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: A model of Smolin's postulate
- Replies: 13
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That sounds about right. And to reiterate, I don't know that these principles carry over into the transfinite realm. We can show that any n -dimensional space, for n greater than 0, has Continuum-many points. So my working assumption is that ℵ0-dimensional space has Continuum-many points (I'm not qu...
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 4:16 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: A model of Smolin's postulate
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2681
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:17 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: A model of Smolin's postulate
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2681
Yeah, he's talking about dimensions in a different sense. The stuff I was referencing is provable in pure geometry, has nothing direct to do with dimensions being curled up or varying in size or what. See here for an example.
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 1:15 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: A model of Smolin's postulate
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2681
We do know this. A 4-D being would be a god to us. It would see everything in our world. It could even look inside your stomach and remove your breakfast without cutting through your skin, just like you could remove a dot inside a circle by moving it up into the third dimension, perpendicular to th...
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:12 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: A model of Smolin's postulate
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2681
Not the totality of all things, but a given thing. Like, we can see all the sides of a square at the same time, because we're three-dimensional; if we were four-dimensional, we could see all the sides of a cube at the same time; etc. I don't actually know for sure that we can transplant this into th...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 11:19 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: A model of Smolin's postulate
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2681
- Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:56 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: The Biggest Question of All
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9511
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Navy is no longer dismissing UFOs
- Replies: 47
- Views: 12580
Mulder and Scully: spend years and years traveling the globe, avoiding death from a dozen different directions, jumping down as many rabbit holes as they can find, in hopes of bringing proof of aliens to the public. Fail. The Navy: LOL let's post some videos on Facebook. I was thinking, maybe these ...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: Well I made my way back to Utah....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1394
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:59 pm
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: A model of Smolin's postulate
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2681
A model of Smolin's postulate
I'm referring to Lee Smolin and his idea of changing laws of physics. So there is an article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on something called infinitary logic . The idea is to have a language allowing conjunctions, variables, and quantifiers with ranges indexed by transfinite numbers. ...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: "Reformation Day"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4538
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: Well I made my way back to Utah....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1394
Well I made my way back to Utah....
... just in time for the apocalypse :roll: I'm working for a temp agency, staying at a shelter in Salt Lake City. Still no sign of Dean but I am weirdly hopeful about his reappearance, even now, especially now. I am also surprisingly taking my medication as prescribed, though in light of recent even...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Hall of Gifts
- Topic: The Shores of the Land
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9926
The Shores of the Land
Usual fanfiction disclaimers apply. THEME/BACKGROUND AFAIK, Sheriff Lytton and Jeremiah's sisters survived, so to bring IRL people back into the mix, I'm having these be the ones who are summoned to the Land's plane of existence. The premise is that not only did the Despiser inspire a cult in our wo...
- Sun May 24, 2020 12:12 am
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: The technical error in the capitalist/communist story
- Replies: 0
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The technical error in the capitalist/communist story
The ideological war between capitalism (or various notions close thereto) and communism (and socialism, etc.) is presented in such apocalyptic terms that one wonders whether economic questions really are so morally pivotal. Now, to be sure, the Christian theorist Paul of Tarsus says something like, ...
You might want to double-check your numbers--the actual mortality rate is not anywhere close to 20%. He said that the death toll was 20% of the total for dead and recovered (or was 20% vs. just recovered). Recovered is now at ~528,000, so dead or recovered are ~667,000, so 139,000/528,000 or 139,00...
lethality of COVID-19 was drastically overstated at the outset I don't recall anyone claiming that it would be as bad as Captain Trips (or the Black Death), say. I don't remember an apocalyptic claim like that. I remember the worry was millions of deaths, which sounds extreme but in relation to lar...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 3:03 am
- Forum: The Entire Chronicles
- Topic: The different magic systems in the stories
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2381
The different magic systems in the stories
Although not as technically detailed as those in The Wheel of Time or in Brandon Sanderson's major works, there are magic systems in the Covenant novels. One very solid example is the complex of the Sunbane, from the blood ritual magic to its interactions with other manifestations of magic (includin...
Official projections keep mutating. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/02/experts-trumps-advisers-doubt-white-houses-240000-coronavirus-deaths-estimate/ discusses a projection of 100,000 minimum dead, a projection that came out of the White House. (The maximum of this range is given as 24...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 12:02 am
- Forum: The Loresraat
- Topic: Regarding the Continuum Hypothesis
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2309
I figured that aleph-zero to the power of the Continuum equals the Continuum to the power of the Continuum, as 2 to the power of the Continuum equals the Continuum to the power of the Continuum, and you can switch out aleph-zero for 2 in these kinds of cases. Now the Continuum to the power of aleph-...