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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 10:27:39 -0700
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On 04/05/2025 09:16 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 ?"
>>>
>>> The digits of "9" continued forever to the right of the radix point. So
>>> of course, Physfit clicked on the "yes" button. If there was not a
>>> difference, then one wouldn't even bother to write 1 in that funky form,
>>> using an infinite series of digit 9.
>>>
>>> But the screen disappeared, and a message said, "You're a robot. Bye!"
>>>
>>> Physfit said, "Fuck!" (first of the fix number of curses Jesus had
>>> allowed him for that day). So he took a pen and paper and started
>>> jotting down:
>>>
>>>      x = 0.99999....
>>>
>>> Therefore:
>>>
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