Raising My Arm

[Vraith]

Seems a fanciful notion .. then IF that IS true

Of course it's true. Here's a short thing on it from a few years ago. There's a lot more, but the good stuff is behind paywalls. Coming in handy for a thing I'm writing.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... g-weights/

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Placebo effect.

Unfortunately, my imagination just isn't that good.

--A

[Skyweir]

Yeah it might be better covered in the better sites. The experiment is interesting though ..

Have you tried it .. virtual games should reap a similar affect.

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The math works, dammit! And that's good enough, right Av???

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... physicists

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[Fist and Faith]

Gotta love it. Of course, this is not a problem with math. This is along the lines of very bizarre very specific PhD dissertations because people don't know what else to write about. These physicists should start using their knowledge to help us make better energy sources.

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Well, I think my point there is that just because the math works does not make a thing so.

Which goes to my long-standing contention that mathematicians start with a conclusion, and then fiddle with the numbers until they add up to said conclusion...



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[Fist and Faith]

Well, I think my point there is that just because the math works does not make a thing so.

Absolutely true. Brian Greene points out that there is absolutely no evidence to support String Theory. It's just the math that suggests it. Math sometimes suggests the existence of something, which is then verified using other means. But that certainly doesn't mean everything math suggests actuality exists.

Which goes to my long-standing contention that mathematicians start with a conclusion, and then fiddle with the numbers until they add up to said conclusion...

Indeed. Human nature seeps into everything. Still, very often, math is not misused.

[wayfriend]

Math doesn't suggest that string theory is actual. It only suggests that it is not impossible.

And you can't prove string theory, at best you can say “Hey, look, my idea has an internal logical consistency.�

It is also not impossible that reality is only the dream of a turtle. Which I mention for comparison purposes.

[Fist and Faith]

Fair enough. I suppose Einstein came up with the ideas first, did the math to see if the ideas made sense or were impossible, then everybody went looking for evidence.

[Zarathustra]

It’s absolutely impossible that reality is a dream of a turtle, not unless a single turtle can have the brain capacity, intelligence, and language to create the sum total of human knowledge. Which they don’t.

[Fist and Faith]

This is a special turtle.

[wayfriend]

Anything can happen in a dream. It's why we are here, yes?

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Life is a dream...
...All dreams must end...

--A