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Very interesting work by Dmitri Tymoczko. This site says Tymoczko borrowed
some of the mathematics that string theorists invented to plumb the secrets of the physical universe andĀ found a way to represent the universe of all possible musical chords in graphic form.
I don’t know if the reference to string theory is justified but in Dualism and […]
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1 Comment Published by admin March 2nd, 2008 in Physics, Marketing, Doctors of Philosophy, Middlemen, NumbersThe word physicist appears to refer to someone who studies nature. Doctors of Philosophy named nature physics and themselves physicists. When you write physicist you are referring whether you want it or not to a scientist who studies nature.
A physicist is not a scientist and he does not study nature. A physicist studies physics.
Physics is […]
Is Newton a Black Swan or is he a Tsunami in a Duck Pond?
0 Comments Published by admin January 23rd, 2008 in Doctors of Philosophy, Newton, NumbersA Black Swan is an outlier that has a big impact that can be rationalized afterwards. Doctors of Philosophy will tell you first that a black swan will never exist because their theories won’t allow it. When a black swan is observed the same Doctors of Philosophy will tell you that their theories always predicted […]
I did not know that mathematics was also inflicted with the same scholastic disease as physics. But I read that doctors of mathematics consider 2 to be prime!
Obviously, there cannot be a prime which is also even. 2 is even. Therefore, 2 is not prime.
Furthermore, 1 is not a number. 1 is unity. Unity should […]
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