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hsweet
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Message 31 of 69 (645431)
12-26-2011 10:58 PM
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12-26-2011 10:48 PM


Re: non physical universes
We are going around in circles. A fundamental concept is that there is the concrete and the descriptive. There is the real and it's fantasy variations. There is the language of relationships.
Love, for example, is not an absolute concrete thing but, instead is referential to the relationship, for example, between a man and a woman.

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nwr
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Message 32 of 69 (645432)
12-26-2011 11:01 PM
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12-26-2011 10:07 PM


Re: mathematics
hsweet writes:
Isn't mathematics ultimately relational to the physical?
No, there's a lot that isn't.
Hilbert's Hotel
the first uncountable ordinal
infinite dimensional vector spaces
p-adic number system
nowhere differentiable functions
Stone—Čech compactifications
We study lots of weird stuff.

Christianity claims the moral high ground it its rhetoric. It has long since abandoned the moral high ground in its practices

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hsweet
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Message 33 of 69 (645433)
12-26-2011 11:09 PM
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12-26-2011 11:01 PM


Re: mathematics
I have to admit ignorance here; my math education only took me through 4 years of high school math and a smattering of it in college. Interestingly enough, I never needed anything professionally that I didn't learn in grammar school. On the other hand, I did use intermediate algebra, logarithms and trigonometry in my hobby.
What can you do to make things meaningful to me?

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jar
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Message 34 of 69 (645434)
12-26-2011 11:11 PM
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12-26-2011 10:58 PM


Re: non physical universes
Nonsense.
I did not say love between a man or a woman, I said "love". "Love", the Platonic form.
Beauty, the Platonic form.
Honor, the Platonic form.
In addition I mentioned other things that cannot exist, the absolutely straight line, the infinite sequence ...

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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hsweet
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Message 35 of 69 (645435)
12-26-2011 11:17 PM
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12-26-2011 11:11 PM


Re: non physical universes
Abstractions eventually become relative. Beauty is not descriptive of no thing.
A line is a concept but is relational to a plane which, in turn, is relational to a solid which exists in reality.

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jar
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Message 36 of 69 (645436)
12-26-2011 11:26 PM
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12-26-2011 11:17 PM


Re: non physical universes
Learn to read.
I did not say they were no thing, I said they are things I can imagine that do not exist.
Do you know about Platonic Forms?
Do you understand that a perfectly straight line is not simply a line?
Do you know what an infinite sequence is?

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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Dr Adequate
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Message 37 of 69 (645437)
12-26-2011 11:30 PM
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12-26-2011 8:49 PM


Re: multiple big bangs ?
Dr Adaquate, We can not intellectually understand any possible physical reality outside of our universe due to the limitations of our intellects. Human intellect evolved so that we could navigate within the relative universe of space, time, matter and energy so anything else that might possibly exist is beyond our capability.
When we try to think 'outside the universe', we only project what is inside the universe to that 'realm' -- that's all that we can do. My argument is that whatever it is that is non-universe can't be what is within the universe otherwise there would be no distinction between the two.
Well ...
When we talk about "other universes" in the context of the Inflation Hypothesis, we do mean just more spacetime and energy and matter, having a common origin with our own universe.
What makes them "other universes" is causality: the geometry of spacetime is such that what's in the other universes can't affect what's in our universe, and vice versa. It's not that there's (necessarily) an essential qualitative distinction between this universe and the next, just that they're causally isolated from one another.

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Message 38 of 69 (645438)
12-26-2011 11:34 PM


Yes they are possible. The problem is there isnt a shred of evidence that another universe exists.

And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually - 2 Samuel 15:12

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Dr Adequate
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Message 39 of 69 (645439)
12-26-2011 11:41 PM
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12-26-2011 11:34 PM


Yes they are possible. The problem is there isnt a shred of evidence that another universe exists.
There are, in fact, shreds of evidence.
I've referred to the Inflationary Hypothesis. There is some evidence that this is correct. If it is correct, then other universes are a corollary of its correctness.
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I suppose another piece of evidence, though I'm not sure how much weight we should attach to this, is that it's extremely rare for there to be only one of anything. Can you think of a particular thing which is also the only instance of its type?
For some reason I am more hesitant to reason inductively on the basis of this observation than I usually am, and I don't quite understand the reason for my hesitance --- I just have a vague feeling that it might not be satisfactory.

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hsweet
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Message 40 of 69 (645440)
12-26-2011 11:42 PM
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12-26-2011 11:30 PM


Re: multiple big bangs ?
OK. hypothetical to the hilt, though as with no possible interaction, that leaves us out of the picture.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 41 of 69 (645443)
12-26-2011 11:57 PM
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12-26-2011 11:42 PM


Re: multiple big bangs ?
OK. hypothetical to the hilt, though as with no possible interaction, that leaves us out of the picture.
Well, they needn't remain hypothetical, as I pointed out to Portillo.
If we can establish strong evidence for the mechanism by which our universe began, and if the mechanism for which we have evidence implies the existence of other universes, then we would in fact have evidence for their existence.

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hsweet
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Message 42 of 69 (645445)
12-27-2011 12:00 AM
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12-26-2011 11:57 PM


Re: multiple big bangs ?
Talk about healthy undertakings! Good Luck.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 43 of 69 (645446)
12-27-2011 12:10 AM
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12-27-2011 12:00 AM


Re: multiple big bangs ?
Talk about healthy undertakings! Good Luck.
It's no use wishing me good luck, I'm not a physicist.
Certainly it looks as though some version of the I.H. might well be true. Will we ever know enough to say that it definitely is true? I don't know.
But the mere fact that we can entertain the idea does seem to undermine any attempt on your part to rule out other universes a priori.

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hsweet
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Message 44 of 69 (645447)
12-27-2011 12:16 AM
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12-27-2011 12:10 AM


Re: multiple big bangs ?
Perhaps far out might be more correct than rule out.
It's when we start hearing other universe descriptions presented as an alternative to the anthropic that we start seeing science getting edgy about religion.
Eastern time here. Time to quit for the night.

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nwr
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Message 45 of 69 (645448)
12-27-2011 12:36 AM
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12-26-2011 11:09 PM


Re: mathematics
hsweet writes:
What can you do to make things meaningful to me?
That probably can't be done, without you spending some time learning higher math.
In any case, my point is made. I have no difficulty conceiving of things, and finding rich meaning in them, but things that you do not even find meaningful

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