/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>9651485
Nothing and infinity are fictional human concepts that do not manifest themselves in the real world.

So the same reason your anime waifu doesn't exist.

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>OP envisions himself as this

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>>9336427
You can actually observe individual photons - your retina is actually *that* sensitive. So yes, we have literally observed particles.

How many particles are in the universe?

Well, there's an awful lot in empty space it seems.

So how much empty space is there?

...Also, why we're at it - how many minutes until the end of time? Days? Weeks? Centuries? Millenia? It's all the same answer.

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>POSTMODERNISM THE THREAD
Shut up you fucking pretentious teenage losers

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>>9026433
Not really, and for the same reason one can't really imagine 4th dimensional objects - webm related.

Math has no connection to reality. You can imagine infinities, 250 dimensional tesseracts, Klein bottles, pretty much anything and everything. It's a language used to reduce things to the tiniest bit of information the human mind can meaningfully communicate and analyze, and more disconnected from reality than any other language - which, at least when describing things outside of reality, all rely on synthesis of things that actually exist.

Philosophy, on the other hand, revolves around defining axioms and logically testing them against reality as well as other philosophies. If it can't survive the litmus test of reality and critique, a philosophical concept is defeated, save perhaps as an educational tool as to typical follies (such as Zeno's paradoxes or Anselm's ontological proofs), whereas mathematical models remain relevant forever, whether applicable to reality or not.

Granted, when boiled down to core dialectic, philosophy becomes math, but in the end the debate is as to how the axiom reflects and functions in reality, where as the axioms in math have no such hurdles to overcome. So long as the calculations work out, it's golden.

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Stop right there!

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>>7524344
Do real numbers actually occur in reality? Or are they just a useful tool for manipulating equations into finding solutions which are useful in reality?

>>7487408

I miss wildburguer threads.

>>7251376

>(..)Thankfully we finally have computers so people can start holding people accountable for their unworkable bullshit.

>(..)This is why Wildberger always goes on about algorithms vs choice, the only problem is that he dumbs it down so much that dumb undergraduates who've never heard of constructive mathematics just think he's a nutjob.

Thanks so much. Im hugging the screen right now. The people who disagree with wildberger dont want to, or cant understand what hes talking about.

The math that comp scientist have to learn these days is a pain in the ass to use as a tool for shaping and analyzing algorithms, its just an inconsistent clusterfuck. The idea that matematicians doesnt need to care about implementation because "muh platonic realm" is insane. An idea is implemented in our brain just like an algorythm is implemented in a computer and both are following some physical laws.

>"B-but I can fly in my mind but I cant fly in reality and this proves mind > reality"
If you think like this then gtfo, you understood nothing.

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