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Subject: Re: The Suspicious Journals of Ross A. Kosmanson :-)
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:16:59 -0400
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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:
>>
>>      10x = 9.99999....
>>
>> Now he subtracted the former from the latter:
>>
>>      10x - x = 9.99999... - 0.99999...
>>
>> Which simplifies to:
>>
>>      9x = 9
>>
>> And therefore:
>>
>>      x = 1
>>
>> "What the fuck??", said Physfit (his 2nd curse of the day).
>>
>> Why x which was 0.99999... and not 1, turned out to be 1? ... "
>>
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