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Mary, Beebs admitted it.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Rodin is disingenuous
No, he is not.
Beebs pointed out that when he says equal, he doesn't mean equal. That's disingenuous among other things.
all multiples of 9 equal 9
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Mary, Beebs admitted it.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Rodin is disingenuous
No, he is not.
So in other words, he's not spreading lies because he's a liar, but rather, it's because he's not sane? I'm not qualified to judge his sanity, but with my layman qualifications on psychology, I've seen nothing to refute that assertion. If it is idée fixe as you suggest:
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I've known people like that before, but they were more sane than Rodin.
Thanks for the link by the way, I wasn't aware of that particular terminology.
the victim of idée fixe was understood to be unaware of the unreality of their frame of mind
Definition of LIE
1
a : an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker to be untrue with intent to deceive
b : an untrue or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the speaker
Cool. That's the relevance of anything he says as a "primary source" completely dispatched. Good work.
Cool. That's the relevance of his pretence at 'mathematics' as a primary source dispatched too. We have progress.
Ok. Rodin is disingenuous and bad at explaining himself. We can agree on that.
I do not concede, however, that there is no observable connection to his model of an atom in reality. To me, that is a radical proposition, and I do not understand how you can come to this conclusion after understanding what Rodin has said himself about how it relates to reality.
I'd never equate math with reality, so we're agreed there too. Excellent.
I'd say mathematics is a study in pure investigative logic, and if you're trying to figure out the implications of a model, some of the tools that have been developed in mathematics are bound to be pretty much essential.
What I'd also say is that there are models of physical reality that have been constructed with very particular simple mathematical structures and have been found to be astonishingly accurate, and the logic of those mathematical structures have proved to have incredible predictive power. That is simply an observation, one that is very consistent over a great deal of observations of the physical world, which I guess you won't appreciate unless you're intimately familiar with it. For me it makes it clear that some of these mathematical structures do have some undeniable relationship with physical reality. But that's not equating.
Powell equates them:
"[numbers] are actually points or locations that fold out into a 3D shape defining space and time literally"
That's just meaningless garble. Points, shapes and numbers are three entirely distinct things. They can be used together creatively, but you can't just equate them unless you don't know (and don't care) how to be precise with concepts. It's the same with saying an atom is "literally" a wavefunction. It just isn't.
As for your other questions about atoms and cymatics, I'm not clear what they have to do with this topic. Didn't you set up a "physical realities" thread at one point? Perhaps we could look at them there...
Yes, it is very useful for modeling reality. It is mostly pure logic. Are you telling me the quantity we represent by the symbol 2 and the quantity represented by 5 do not total up into the quantity represented by 7, regardless of the qualitative properties of the set in question? Even the real continuum is deduced from logic, namely nested rational intervals. It's not just statistics. That would be an error those who don't know math would say. Math represents the reality of quantity, shapes, and change. It's not just useless abstraction.
The atom I would say is a discrete unit of matter. The atomic theory predicts things such as inter-molecular forces, pressure, changing phases of a system, and much, much more. As a model it predicts many things, and explains many things verified by experiment. Again, what new things does your preferred model predict? The Ramen compels you to speak.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
The interviewer is Matt Pristi.
Dude, Buddhasystem and I use quantum mechanics in our work. You're being a real dick.
Originally posted by Americanist
If we ever need an example of how dense matter really is, in the future I'll just reference everybody back to the 3 Stooges and you. By 3 Stooges I'm citing your band of misfits. Anyhow, on to another lesson I presume.
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The reality is most of you admit to being newbs at principles of quantum mechanics which only promotes my case even further... 3 stooges + Arbitrageur.
No it's not relevant, and I'm not interested in listening to you talk garbled nonsense and then blaming your audience for not agreeing with it.
Originally posted by beebs
No, we will discuss them here, if Mary doesn't mind - they are relevant to the discussion. I can see you just don't understand at all what I am trying to say.
My own definition will always be imprecise; I'm no physicist. I just happen to think the standard model is good at predicting many things. I think nature is composed of small particles of matter. I think matter has properties such as charge and mass. I wouldn't mind a different model if it explains something we don't already know. The idea of an atom allows us to explain why nature has the physical properties I mentioned earlier. The theory of orbiting electrons explains much of chemistry. What does the theory of calling everything a wave-function predict? Apart from being pleasant to a metaphysicist? I think matter is discrete, not continuous; it's elements are just so tiny it seems continuous from our point of view .
Wave structure of matter models predict the interference patterns in WPD, nonlocality, entanglement, zero point energy, heisenberg uncertainty, superposition, and perhaps others.
Simply for the reason that the models embrace the fullness of space, and the literal wave structure emerging in space - rather than suggesting that particles behave like a wave, they are instead literally cymatics in space.
This is what I take the atom to be, before we have collapsed it through observation.
“Since this view of nature is a result of the biological constitution of the natural observer, the world picture cannot be separated from the creator of the world picture. In short, against the natural research which created the atomic bomb stands the natural research which discovered the cosmic orgone energy, sharp, clear, and incompatible.
It is a matter of deciding the question whether nature is an “empty space with a few widely scattered specks,” or whether it is a space full of cosmic primordial energy, a continuum which functions in a lively way and obeys a generally valid natural law.”
(Reich, From Ether, God and Devil, 1949, in SW p. 276-277)
Science comes at it from experience, from observation and from logic, not from the false presuppositions you've invented for it. This is just silly. Delusionals like Rodin come at it from their own fantasies, and then people hang on it as if it means something. What's the point if you can't relate any of it to anything specific and observable?
Originally posted by beebs
Okay, now we can start having a discussion. This is what you have been presupposing for the entire thread.
Rodin and the wave crowd, come at it from the other side of the complementarity.
No it's not relevant, and I'm not interested in listening to you talk garbled nonsense and then blaming your audience for not agreeing with it.
Science comes at it from experience, from observation and from logic, not from the false presuppositions you've invented for it. This is just silly. Delusionals like Rodin come at it from their own fantasies, and then people hang on it as if it means something. What's the point if you can't relate any of it to anything specific and observable?
“The most modern physics, even in the finest details, can be represented symbolically as psychic processes.” - Wolfgang Pauli
That's all well and good, but I still think the Rodin coil is crap. There is NO evidence for it, and the mathematics is nothing new or breathtaking, just a narrow part of number theory. The fact that you got excited about a spinning ball and ascribed it to action at a distance instead of rotational energy and friction pretty much says it all. You don't know the standard model, yet think it needs to be replaced.