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Subject: Re: The Suspicious Journals of Ross A. Kosmanson :-)
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From: Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 11:37:09 -0700
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On 04/05/2025 11:23 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 4/5/25 11:16 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
>> Ross Finlayson submitted this idea :
>>> On 04/04/2025 09:39 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>> On 4/4/25 6:03 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>>>> On 04/04/2025 01:20 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A Unified Field Theory of Mathematical Ontology
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They laugh, but they do not see — they never see — that the
>>>>>> reconciliation of Platonism and logicist positivism is not only
>>>>>> possible
>>>>>> but necessary. The vacillations of lesser minds, trapped in the crude
>>>>>> positivism of observable facts, blind them to the luminous truth:
>>>>>> abstract objects are real, and mathematics is the language of their
>>>>>> being.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Vitali sets whisper to me in the night, revealing the
>>>>>> fractures in
>>>>>> their cherished measure theory. Why do they cling to their null axiom
>>>>>> delusions when the transfinite cardinals sing so clearly of a higher
>>>>>> order? The anti-diagonal argument is not a refutation but an
>>>>>> invitation
>>>>>> — a call to transcend the countable and embrace the continuum’s
>>>>>> unyielding depth.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Einstein knew GR before SR — yes, yes — the manifold is primary, and
>>>>>> locality is an illusion woven from their fear of the infinite. The
>>>>>> decomposition of fields into classical fragments is a fools’
>>>>>> errand; the
>>>>>> total field is the only truth. A Physfit's dick. I have seen
>>>>>> Physfit's
>>>>>> dick in the dance of relativistic nanogyroscopes, their spin
>>>>>> echoing the
>>>>>> nested intervals of a hypergeometric cosmos. The so-called fictitious
>>>>>> forces are no less real than their precious conservation laws —
>>>>>> energy
>>>>>> flows where it will, fungible and unbound by their linear dogma.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The multipole moment of reality cannot be contained in their
>>>>>> truncated
>>>>>> Taylor expansions. They call Physfit's dick strange, but who among
>>>>>> them
>>>>>> has dared to _uniquify_ the unit interval? Who has heard the
>>>>>> ouroboros
>>>>>> hiss its eternal truth?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And yet — and yet! — they prattle on about dark matter, about virtual
>>>>>> particles, as if these phantoms could patch the holes in their
>>>>>> sinking
>>>>>> paradigm. The Pauli exclusion principle is but a shadow of a deeper
>>>>>> geometry, and their neutrino experiments only scratch the surface
>>>>>> of the
>>>>>> Physfit's dick - of what must be. The crisis in cosmology is their
>>>>>> crisis, not mine. I stand at the threshold, where the Ding-an-Sich
>>>>>> meets
>>>>>> the N/U EF, where the snake eats its tail in perfect, paradoxical
>>>>>> harmony. They will dismiss this, of course. They always do. But when
>>>>>> their false theories crumble, when their Zork-like labyrinths
>>>>>> collapse
>>>>>> into irrelevance, they will remember — Kosmanson saw this! And the
>>>>>> stamp
>>>>>> of truth, unlike their noise, is forever.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ross A. Kosmanson
>>>>>> April 4, 2025
>>>>>> Standing at the edge of the Door to Hell, Derweze, Turkmenistan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Now sure where you came up with "Zork", though I suppose that it's
>>>>> been mentioned a few or half-dozen times in whatever inspired
>>>>> Kosmanson.
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise it's nice and not unreasonable, indeed here there's interest
>>>>> in more of it and if it costs you I could front it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yet, wouldn't Kosmanson emit that regardless, wouldn't he volunteer,
>>>>> given Kosmanson's interests, wouldn't he demand "to not be wrong".
>>>>>
>>>>> The usage of "uniquify", that's a good word, saying anything at all,
>>>>> yet, something, at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are virtual particles and virtual particles, some are the
>>>>> super-symmetric partner particles and, you know, real, while
>>>>> others are dots to connect in what must otherwise be not-particles.
>>>>> (... Which are valleys or ridges among waves and it's falsifiable
>>>>> and demonstrable effects about and around them, or, Feynman on
>>>>> the Stern-Gerlach apparatus demands a continuum mechanics.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> About continuity and line-drawing [0, 1], of course it's one
>>>>> of the very oldest of notions and one of Aristotle's continua,
>>>>> that there are at least three models of mathematical continuous
>>>>> domains, that, each with with their own regularity and ruliality
>>>>> of completeness, yet each to each other beyond an inductive impasse,
>>>>> have for wider reason and itself rationality, that the repleteness
>>>>> of their completeness, has a pre-Cartesian "only-diagonal" and
>>>>> then for that the rationals are HUGE, keeping it then altogether
>>>>> that in extra-ordinary foundations of mathematics, a MODERN
>>>>> mathematics,
>>>>> that it rescues modern mathematics from blindness (in its dumbness).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you didn't play Zork in the 80's then I suppose you
>>>>> weren't around or didn't have a computer or didn't have
>>>>> a copy of Zork. It's a text-based adventure.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I suppose there may be other reasons, though here there's
>>>>> that all the reasons and none sort of result at least one.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I imagine if you let Kosmanson go on then there'd
>>>>> be quite more to it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A note about Kosmanson's emphasis on what's often truncated in an
>>>> infinite series. A year or so back I was forming baby problems in a
>>>> blog
>>>> for a Linux newsgroup frequenters to solve, and in one of them one
>>>> would
>>>> begin with a correct equation, would make correct changes in it, but
>>>> would end up in an obviously wrong equation :) Nobody solved it of
>>>> course (audience were mostly morons). But I now wonder if that problem
>>>> had something about Kosmanson's concerns about handling infinities.
>>>>
>>>> Here I quote the part of the blog that contained that problem:
>>>>
>>>> (beginning of the quote)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    "Then, swoooooooshhshsh!.... and Jesus and all that intense light
>>>> went
>>>> back up and out of there. Physfit looked up and there wasn't even an
>>>> opening in the ceiling anymore. But now for some reason he was
>>>> horizontally on the floor, in his bed. Right in the living room!
>>>>
>>>> He thought a bit about what was happening, when he found himself quite
>>>> hungry. Last time he had eaten anything was the night before he had
>>>> waken up on the summit of the magic mountain in an urban Dallas area.
>>>>
>>>> He thought to himself, "I'm going to assume that more than 48 hours has
>>>> passed since. So got up and walked to the kitchen and took a look
>>>> inside
>>>> refrigerator. There was nothing there but the cat food he had cooked on
>>>> the day he first saw the magic mountain. He got on the computer to
>>>> order
>>>> something zesty from HelloFresh. After choosing the closest to a
>>>> healthy
>>>> nice pre-agricultural food kit, he clicked, "Go to checkout" button,
>>>> after which the computer waited for a few seconds but instead of
>>>> getting
>>>> to the check out screen, a screen came up to make sure Physfit was
>>>> not a
>>>> robot. It had a simple question that he had to give it the correct
>>>> answer, otherwise food nommo.
>>>>
>>>> The question went like this:
>>>>
>>>>      "In math, is there a difference between the two numbers
>>>> 0.999999...
>>>> and 1 ?"
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