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Subject: Re: [SR and synchronization] Cognitive Dissonances and Mental
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:36:00 +0200
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Le 31/08/2024 à 15:32, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
> W dniu 31.08.2024 o 15:22, Python pisze:
>> Le 31/08/2024 à 15:05, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
>>> W dniu 31.08.2024 o 14:19, Python pisze:
>>>> Le 30/08/2024 à 20:03, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
>>>>> W dniu 30.08.2024 o 17:09, Python pisze:
>>>>>> Le 30/08/2024 à 13:44, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> No theory of mathematics include clocks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sure! But a model of clocks can appear in a mathematical
>>>>>> theory.
>>>>>
>>>>> It can
>>>>
>>>> Good to know. We agree then.
>>>>
>>>>> and, what's more important - a
>>>>> relativistic idiot like to invoke
>>>>> the auyhority of mathematics for
>>>>> excusing his mad claims.
>>>>> BTW - is Pythagorean theorem a
>>>>> "hard mathematical fact"?
>>>>> Yes or not?
>>>>
>>>> The hard mathematical fact is: Euclid's Axioms => Pythagorean theorem.
>>>>
>>>> Another question?
>>>
>>> Here it comes:
>>> Quoting:
>>>  >> Paragraph I.1. describes a procedure that looks non symmetric at
>>>  >> first sight: clocks A and B are not treated exactly the same way
>>>  >> (two measures for A, one for B for instance), nevertheless at the
>>>  >> end of the day one can *prove* that the results are symmetric and
>>>  >> that inverting A and B would lead to the same result.
>>>  >
>>> This is hard mathematical facts Richard. Something beyond your head.
>>> End of quoting.
>>>
>>> No axioms now implying that?
>>
>> We basically need a archimedian complete ordered field. i.e. R.
>>
>> Let's pick ZFC + Peano, and R (for values of the "clocks") defined as
>> the set of Cauchy sequences on Q or Dedekind's cuts.
> 
> I see: a cow and a cow gives a rhino.
> What a hard mathematical fact it is -
> just take Peano's and define a cow
> as 1 and  a rhino as 2.

Sure, you can.

More precisely you could name S(0) "cow" and S(S(0)) "rhino", as
long as your audience is aware of that. What's your problem Maciej?