Re: Geometric Form

Peter Kinane wrote:
Re "This is clearly required because of the simple observation that nature uses no coordinates []":
Does it use "geometric forms"?
Does it use math?

"So any valid theory of physics must be expressible in a [geometry and math]-free manner."?

Hmmm. Math in general, and geometry in particular are the methods used to formulate physical theories. Such theories of course are _models_ of the world, and are not the world itself. The world itself clearly does what you ask. Our theories of the world are models, and must therefore involve math and geometry.

Within those models, however, if any coordinate system was special, then the model could not be an accurate model of the world, as the world uses no coordinates and therefore has no special coordinate system.


What philosophy system does your understanding- -notion of nature express? 

I am discussing physics, not philosophy.


Tom Roberts	tjroberts@xxxxxxxxxx
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