RE: Do you believe in god or math?
October 19, 2011 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2011 at 10:51 am by IATIA.)
(October 19, 2011 at 10:43 am)Pendragon Wrote:(October 19, 2011 at 9:02 am)Rhythm Wrote: "Quantum" anything draws a lot of mysticism doesn't it. Ramtha approves.
Well I guess that is fair, as Quantus in Latin means "how much", and with math it is how many.
Numbers may be a partial aspect of the objective world, but only using them to describe things loses a lot of data. You see 10 horses in a field. reporting them as such means nothing to the tax man, who wants also to know how much are they worth? That amount varies through the life of the horse. And the value of individual horses varies quite a bit too.
The only thing the math does is give 10 equal horses. After quantifying them in terms of money, we can let the math shine with much more detail. 1 prize stud worth $250,000 (who ran away) and is hanging out with 9 scrub mares worth $800 each. We shall have to see if they gave him some bad horse disease that brings his value down to 0 however.
It all depends on what you are looking for. How many pounds of horses, how many varieties, etc. As to math describing everything, probably not, but it can describe the subatomic actions that define the horse.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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