Re: A General Introduction to the Expanding Earth


"Stuart" <bigdakine@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ford used to be a regular here.
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> Ford also used to claim that "imaginary numbers weren't real".
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> We are talking real entertainment..



To quote the esteemed Cambridge mathematician, John Barrow

"If we define religion to be a system of thought which contains an element of
faith, then Gödel has taught us that not only is mathematics a religion
but it is the only religion capable of proving itself to be one."
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jdb34/jdbcv.html


To quote Einstein....

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and
as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. "

"It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena
which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth."



It should always be remembered that mathematics is only
self consistent. Not consistent with reality. The difference
between the two is rather important, as one might begin
to think the laws of mathematics define reality.

They do not, they approximate reality in a highly simplified
form. Often so simplified that reality is no longer
recognizable.


Jonathan

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> > slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
> > by an ugly fact. - Thomas Huxley
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