tom sarbeck

Sheeesh, all this because Georges LeMaitre wanted to support Genesis and fancied that he did it when he used the “anomaly” PART of what Edwin Hubble said.

I understand that two decades later he asked the Pope to stop bragging.

Mathematics has no need for anything physical.*(see below)

That people use it to model physical phenomena gives them the burden of proof: Can they rely on their model, and if so how far?

Atheists who allow anything metaphysical into the discussion aren’t paying attention.

Philosophers who haven’t studied the universe are unwise to take part in…[Read more]

Unseen, adding 112 and 545 in octal or hex is also a snap.

No column adds to more than 7 so none requires a carry.

Unseen, do you know what else doesn’t pass the snicker test?

Aliens.

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Has anyone noticed the many attempts in this discussion to attach something concocted by humankind (math, rules, limits, logic, etc) to the universe?

The universe pays no attention.

Humankind have also—again and again—concocted and tried to attach to the universe a beginning and an end.

There too, the universe pays no attention.

Do you fee…[Read more]

jake, “math is in fabric of the universe….”?

Where did you find this ‘fabric’?

Does it, like the relativists’ fabric, resemble a sort of trampoline?

Pure potentiality = Anything can happen. What would be there to place limits on what might happen?

Without humankind the mathematical would not be there but the physical would be there.

The rub is that without humankind, there would be no one to know what limits there are that can be taken away so that anything can happen.

Two probable limits…[Read more]

Another stab.

Reality is not all mathematical; it’s all physical.

Without humankind, neither mathematics nor rules exist.

Humankind uses mathematics and rules to approximate reality.

Define pure potentiality, without mention of humankind’s rules.

To say anything that’s possible according to the rules can happen places rules over reali…[Read more]